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• Parents
  Father | Male Arthur Manford HAWKINS
  Birth	6 Mar 1906	Griffin, Posey County, Indiana
  Died	24 Nov 1987	Dade City, Florida
  Buried		Roseland Cemetery, Berkley, Michigan
  Married	9 Oct 1924[1]	Carmi, White County, Illinois[1]
  Father	Clarence Freman HAWKINS | F3 Group Sheet
  Mother	Margaret (Maggie) RACHELS | F3 Group Sheet
  Mother | Female Bertha Inez RHEUDE
  Birth	12 Sep 1906	Riverton, Sangamon County, Illinois
  Died	13 Sep 1973	Madison Heights, Michigan
  Buried
  Father	Adam James RHEUDE | F2 Group Sheet
  Mother	Christina ROBINSON | F2 Group Sheet
  Children
  Child 1 | Female Claudine Jane HAWKINS
  Birth	11 Aug 1925 (time: 9:30 p.m.)	Riverton, Sangamon County, Illinois
  Died	26 May 2000	Warren, Michigan
  Buried
  Spouse	Living | F32
  Married
  Spouse	Norbert RATUSZNIK | F34
  Married	28 May 1976	Madison Heights, Michigan
  Spouse	Russell Lee GRAVES | F72
  Married	25 Jun 1964	Oakland County, Michigan
  Child 2 | Female Living
  Birth
  Died
  Buried
  Spouse	Living | F422
  Married
  Spouse	Living | F423
  Married
  Spouse	Living | F56
  Married
  Child 3 | Female Dorothy Louise HAWKINS
  Birth	14 Apr 1935	Grayville, Illinois
  Died	28 Oct 1998	Dade City, Florida
  Buried
  Spouse	Living | F51
  Married
  Child 4 | Female Living
  Birth
  Died
  Buried
  Spouse	Living | F59
  Married
  Child 5 | Female Ruth Marie HAWKINS
  Birth	18 Mar 1939
  Died
  Buried
  Spouse	John RODGERS | F76
  Married	14 Sep 1957

• Notes

  Married: When Manford was young he worked at a button factory in Grayville, Illinois. After the factory went out of business he began sharecropping. He would work another farmer's piece of land, living in a house on the farmer's property. Manford and Bertha came to Michigan in 1942. Manford started working at Sibley Lumberyard. From there he went to work as the foreman/supervisor of another lumberyard. It is believed that Arthur Hawkins had an affair with Rose Bass, and then her sister, Opal, in later years. Bertha was highly jealous, using foul language aimed at Arthur quite often. She would often get all the girls up out of bed so that she could use them in her arguments. Aunt Alice told me that once Arthur went and bought himself a few pair of new pants. Bertha was pretty peeved about it. She took his new clothes and made the girls new smocks for school.

• Sources

  [S12] Copy of Marriage Certificate (Reliability: 3). State of Illinois, County of White Page 105 of Marriage Register 7 State Board of Health Register page 12