Surnames: Hawks, Gerreau, Folsom, Kennedy, Tronson

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 06/24/1943

Hawks, Emmet Allan (9 Apr. 1877 - 22 June 1943)

Funeral services for Emmet Allan Hawks, 66, who died at St. Joseph’s hospital, Marshfield, Tuesday afternoon will be held at 1:30 at the home and at 2:00 o’clock at the Presbyterian church, Saturday afternoon. The Rev. H. W. Gerreau of Withee will officiate and internment will be made in the Dorchester cemetery.

The body will be brought to the home, Friday afternoon, and will lie there in state until the time of the funeral.

Mr. Hawks was born in the Town of Hoard April 9, 1877. He was educated in Clark county and also attended Colby high school. On June 27, 1900, he was married to Miss Myra Folsom, in Taylor County. For a year the young couple lived in Duluth where Mr. Hawks was a street car motorman. They then accompanied his father, Milo Hawks, a civil war veteran, to Virginia.

After the death of his father, three years later, they returned to Hoard and bought a farm adjoining the homestead where they lived until last Aug. 8, when they moved to Abbotsford to the Hirsch house on Highway 13, which they purchased.

Mr. Hawks helped at the H. D. Kennedy store when needed and worked there yet Saturday night. Becoming seriously ill during the night he was taken to Marshfield where he underwent an emergency operation early Monday morning. He died there Tuesday afternoon, at 2:30.

He is survived by his widow and two children: Mrs. Reuben (Irene) Tronson, of Chicago; and Allan Hawks, on the home farm near Curtiss. There are seven grand children: Cpl. Keith Tronson, Camp Davis, Va.; and Miss Jean Tronson, Chicago; Dean, Robert, Shirley, David and Rodney Hawks, Curtiss.

A brother, Ira Hawks, who formerly had a feed store where Crane’s now is, of Galesville, also survives.