Hawkins, Jilson

Title: Hawkins, Jilson
Gender: Male
Biography: Jilson was purchased in Mississippi in 1825 by James Dinsmore. Jilson stayed in Louisiana in 1829 when the family moved to Kentucky. He was later brought to the Missouri farm, and then to Rising Sun.; "Jilson, born [in enslavement], may have been a brother to Nancy McGruder or related in some way as both of them came to Mississippi in the same group in the 1820s. James Dinsmore purchased him and later took him to Louisiana when he moved there in 1829. When Dinsmore left for Kentucky, Jilson and his family remained in the Deep South. At some point in the 1850s, Jilson and his wife, Eliza, and their family were sent to work on Dinsmore’s farm in Saline County, Missouri. During the Civil War, they moved again to Kentucky where they stayed until after Dinsmore’s death. In the mid-1870s, Jilson used money James had left for him to buy a house in Rising Sun. He chose to be buried in the Dinsmore family plot near his daughter and granddaughter when he died. " --Cathy Callopy
Member: Hawkins family
Birth date: circa 1811
Place of birth: Kentucky or Virginia
Spouse(s): Hawkins, Eliza
Child(ren): Simpson, Ellen Hawkins
Death date: 1879
Death and burial information: Dinsmore Cemetery (Boone County, Ky.)
Relationship: Slaveholder(s): Dinsmore, James; Dinsmoor, James
Source(s): Dinsmore Homestead Collection

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