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* HAWK WEBB LUZERNE COUNTY PA*

Updated July 26, 2003


ABRAHAM HAWK MARRIED CHAROLETT [REED] IN WARREN CO. NJ
THEY ARE BRUIED IN TRUCKVILLE CEMETERY CEDAR CREST CHURCH.
THERE SON WILLAIM MARRIED ELIZABETH [WEBB] THEY ARE BURIED AT
HILLSIDE CEMETERY.PA
ELIZABETH IS FROM ENGLAND HER PARENTS WHERE
JOSEPH AND [ CAROLINE GWYLLIAM] THEY ARE BURIED AT
SHAWNEE CEMETERY IN PLYMOUTH PA.

ELIZABETH AND WILLAIM HAWK HELP FOUNDED
THE VALLEY VIEW UNION CHURCH IN LARKSVILLE,PA
ITS WAS A MEETING HELD AT THE UNION CHURCH IN PLYMOUTH THAT MR. HENDRICK GREGORY VOICED THE NEED FOA A SUNDAY SCHOOL ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP. HE HAD GREAT DESIRE TO CARRY THE GOSPEL TO THOSEHIM. THERE WERE MANY PLANS ESTABLISH A SUNDAY SCHOOL. BUT NOTHING WAS ACCOMPLISHED UNTILL IT WAS DECIDED TO CANVAS THE DISTRICT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE IN ORDER TP LEARN THE SENTIMENT OT THE NIEGHBORHOOD. THIS MR. GREGORY DID WITH THE HELP OF THE HAWKS GIRLS. THE SENTIMENT SEEMED IN FAVOR OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL
.
THE HAWK GIRLS CAROLYN MAUDE AND MABEL AND THERE COUSIN
GOLDIE DAUGHTER OF CORSON HAWK WALKED FROM FARM TO FRAM A RADIUS OF THREE MILES FROM WHERE THEY LIVED, SOME FAMILES CONTACTED WHERE,[ WATLER COATES, WILL COATES,STEELES,BRYANTS,HARRISONS,JONES,GREGORYS,EVANS,SIPPLES,
WEEKS, LAMOREAUS,LOZIERS,GARNETS,LAWS,KOCHERS,PRICES,SHERMANS.PRUTZMANS,
AND HAWKS
ON JULY 1 1906 A MEETING OF THE PEOPLE WAS CALLED AT THE SCHOOL HOUSE WITH MR. MICHEAL GARREAHAN PRESENT, THE WAY SEEMED OPEN FOR A SUCCESSFUL SUNDAY SCHOOL.IN ORDER TO USE THE SCHOOL HOUSE PERMISSION HAD TO BE OBTAINED FROM THE BOARD DIRECTORS OF THE SCHOOL.
THE HAWKS GIRLS AGAIN ASSISTED BY WALKING TO THE HOME OF THE DIRECTORS TP OBTAIN WRITTEN PERMISSION.THE SCHOOL HOUSE WAS LOCATED ACROSS THE ROAD FROM A HEART SHAPED SPRING WHERE CHILDREN DRINK.
AT THE MEETING MR, GREGORY WAS UNANIMOUSLY ELECTED PRESIDENT FOR A TREM OF SIX MONTHS. MISS LIVA RANSOM WAS ELECTED ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT. THE OTHER OFFICERS WERE MISS JENNIE LAW SECERTARTY AND MISS MARY COATES TREASURER, THE FOLLOWING WEEK TEACHERS MISS LIVA RAMSON, MRS.WILLIE COATES, MR.ALBERT SHARDER,
MR.EMORY STEELE AND MRS.JAMES WEEKS THE NAME MR, FRANK SEELEY WAS ADDED AS A TEACHER. JULY 7 1906 THE SUNDAY SCHOOLHELD REGUAL SESSION
THE FIRST MINISTERS AT THE SUNDAY SCHOOL DURINH 1906 AND 1907 WERE REV. KELLY OF LAKSVILLE AND REV.KNIPP OF PLYMOUTH WHO
HELD SPECIAL MEETING.
AT A TRUSTEE BOARD MEETING MARCH 20,1908 IT WAS DECIDES THAT THE
VALLEY VIEW UNION SUNDAY SCHOOL BUILD A CHURCH. THE COMMITTED CONSTISTING OF MR. ROBERT LAW, MR. ALBERT KOCHER, MR EMORY STEELE FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN SUITABLE PLOT OF LAND. IT WAS AT THE MEETING ON APRIL 17,1908 THAT MR. WALTER COATES OFFERED TO GIVE HIS CORNER PIECE OF LAND AT THE FORKS OF THE END THE ROAD TO ERECT A CHURCH. THE PLOT OF LAND WAS ACCEPTED A SITE
TO ERECT A CHURCH AND PREPARATIONS WERE BEGUN TO ERCET SUCH A CHURCH. MR. EMORY STEELE MR. ROBERT LAW, MR. JAMES WEEKA, AND MR. FRANK SEELEY WERE APPOINTED TO OBTAIN A DEED FOR THE LAND AND SECURE A CHATER,
ACCORDING TO CAROLINE HAWK JOHNSON BOULTINGHOUSE WHO REMEMBERS
THE GROUND BREAKING CERMOMY SAYS THAT IT WAS A SOLEMN AND THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
MRS BOULTINGHOUSE REMEMBERS MR. GARAHAN MR. WATLER COATES, MR. EMORY STEELE. MR.JAMES WEEKS AND WILLAIM COATES EACH HAVING A SHOVEL STANDING IN A CIRCLE TAKING UP SCOOPS OF DIRT. THERE WERE MANY OTHER MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN THERE.
THE FIRST JANITORESS OF THE CHURCH WAS MRS ELIZABETH HAWK WHO RETAINED THE POSITION UNTILL FEB 1910 WHEN MRS. MAUDE BRYANT BECAME JANITORESS.

COPY FROM LETTER GIVEN TO FAMILY BYEVLYN BRYANT OF PLYMOUTH.PA


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DOTTI WATSON

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