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page 83 [p.83] MAJ. THOMAS BROOKE of Calvert County Maryland; b. 23d June, 1632, at Battle, England; will proved 29th December, 1676; commissioned 15th June, 1658, Captain commanding Militia of Calvert County; commissioned Major, 11th February, 1660; Member of the Provincial Assembly, 1663-1666 and 1671-1676; High Sheriff of Calvert County, 1666-1667 and 1668-1669; Presiding Justice of the County Court from 1667 until his death, except during his term as Sheriff; m. circa 1658, Eleanor HATTON, b. 1642, will proved 1725, dau. of Richard and Margaret HATTON and niece of Thomas HATTON, Secretary of the Province. She came to the Province in 1649 with her widowed mother and her family; she m. (second) Col. Henry DARNALL, who d. 17th June, 1711, by whom she had issue also. ^[S802]

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He served as:

PFC HQ Co 23 INF, 2 Division

(Engraved on tombstone)

His obit says he was survived by five children, but it does not name them.

his tombstone gives the death date of Sept. 27, 1946, but other records list Oct. 4, 1946. Our known date would have made him 37 when he died; according to the article he was 40.

Obituary: The Camden Chronicle, Camden, SC, Oct 4, 1946

Hawkins Funeral is Held Sunday at Blaney Church

Republican Aspirant for the State Senate Succumbs after an Operation

Halkard A. Hawkins, age 40, who resides near Blaney, and who during the war operated a tailor shop at Fort Jackson, died Friday in Washington where he underwent an operation for a serious stomach ailment. Hawkins was the Tolbert-Leevy Republican faction candidate for the state senate from Richland Co. this fall and was the only white man on the Republican ticket for the house in Richland Co. two years ago. He was also the Republican candidate for mayor of Columbia last May. Hawkins moved to Washington four months ago but he retained his political affiliation with Columbia and South Carolina.

Funeral services were held from the Methodist church at Blaney Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.

Hawkins has been in failing health for some time past and in recent letters to friends in Blaney and Columbia stated that he was to undergo a serious operation and held out little hope of recovering.

Hawkins had seen service in the army, and had been in China and many other foreign countries. He was a Mason, a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and also of the American Legion.

He leaves his wife, Margaret Wessinger Hawkins; five children; his father, H.A. Hawkins of Greenwood; brothers, Colie B. Hawkins of Columbia and Neil Hawkins of Boston, Mass; three sisters, Mrs. H.F. LeGrande of Dentsville, Mrs. A. H. Hammond of Spencer, N. C. and Mrs. Nancy Collins of Washington, D. C.