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<\/p>\n\nBased on the DNA evidence, there didn’t seem to be any doubt that J.H.B. was a descendant of Charles Hawley.\nHowever, anyone that does genealogy and especially those that work with DNA results know, it is NEVER that easy!\n
\nThe first thing I looked at was the birth of the children of Charles 2<\/strong> and Hattie. Their first child George Russell Hawley was born on April 11, 1913, in Bellflower, Los Angeles, California. This is confirmed based on the marriage record for George.\nSo it seems that the father of Charles 1<\/strong>, William Hawley, and Charles 2<\/strong> and Hattie were both living in Bellflower, Los Angeles, California in 1913.\nThere is one thing that still confuses me a little bit about the birth of George Russell Hawley, the son of Charles 2<\/strong> and Hattie. If you remember Charles 1<\/strong> and Sarah Flewelling also had a son named George Russell Hawley, who was born on July 29th, 1902 in Cumming, Ogemaw, Michigan.\nMy first thought was that these two men might be the same person, but after some research, this doesn’t seem to be true.\n<\/td>\n\n\nMarriage certificate for George Russell Hawley and Mary Alice Heasley\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nBased on information found in other’s family trees on Ancestry.com, Charles 2<\/strong> and Hattie’s daughter, Violet Audrey Hawley was born on November 19th, 1914 in \u00a0Buena Park, Orange, California. We know that, based on the obituary of his father, Charles 1<\/strong> is also living in Buena Park, Orange, California on August 28, 1914.\nThe graphic below shows a comparison of the lives of Charles A. Hawley (Charles 1)<\/strong> and Charles Henry Hawley (Charles 2)<\/strong>. In the graphic, I show the known events for both men side by side. I have included their assumed ages at each event. I have also highlighted, in yellow, the years between 1910 and 1914, which show the overlap of locations for both men.\n\n | Family Stories<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\nCharon makes mention of Charles 1<\/strong> running off with his namesake. This would be Charles Alvin Hawley, born June 29th, 1889. Based on my research Charles Alvin Hawley was still living in Michigan in 1920. He was recorded on the 1920 census, as living in Grayling, Crawford, Michigan. Living with him were his mother Sarah and his little brother George Russell Hawley.\nHowever, there is a piece of the story that seems to ring true. By April 9th, 1930 he was living in Hawthorne, Mineral, Nevada with his wife Golda and her three children; Richard, Dorothy, and Ethel. So it seems that Charles Alvin Hawley, the namesake of Charles 1<\/strong>, did move to Nevada. However, he didn’t move until sometime in the 1920s. He continued living in Nevada, moving to Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada by April 1st, 1940. He lived there until his death on April 21st, 1958.\n |