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 1856 - 1932

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• Birth	6 Dec 1856	Nahant, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Census	1880	West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
  Residence	1901	Omaha, Nebraska
  Died	11 Apr 1932	West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  Buried	Pine Grove Cemetery, West Brookfield, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I5817	West Brookfield Families
  Last Modified	11 Mar 2024
  Father	Harrison Barnes,   b. 1817, Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 24 Dec 1891, West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
  Mother	Rebecca Rice,   b. 15 Aug 1819, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 1 Sep 1901, West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
  Married	11 Dec 1845	Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F282	Group Sheet
  Family	William Irving Hawks,   b. Abt 1855, Georgetown, Madison, New York, USA ,   d. 25 Jul 1941, West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
  Married	5 Jun 1883	West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA   [3]
  Family ID	F2588	Group Sheet

• Headstones		Headstone of Harrison and Rebecca (Rice) Barnes and William and Helen (Barnes) Hawks

• Notes

  Probate records indicate that Helen left a trust fund of $10,000 to George O. Cook of Springfield, MA; as well as, a trust fund of $200,000 for the life use of her husband William Hawks. Helen died April 11th.[Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, May 1, 1932, p.8A] https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A1773BDF75FF7A17E%40GB3NEWS-1798B4659FADA54B%402426810-1798AD78B8F803F7%408-1798AD78B8F803F7%40 obit

• Sources

  [S1191] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, (Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society; Location: Boston, Massachusetts; Date: 2004;), Vol: 96 ; Page: 237. Barnes, female, d. Harrison, Inn Keeper, b. West Brookfield, and Rebecca Rice, b. Ashby, b. Dec. 6, 1856 in Nahant, MA [S2381] Worcester Evening Gazette, Worcester, Massachusetts (online archive), "West Brookfield Benefactor Dies: Mrs. Helen Barnes Hawks in Her 77th Year," 12 April 1932, Page 5, Column 5; Genealogybank (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 9 October 2020.). Obituary of Helen (Barnes) Hawks https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A1773BDF75FF7A17E%40GB3NEWS-1798B4659FADA54B%402426810-1798AD78B8F803F7%408-1798AD78B8F803F7%40 [S2283] Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915, Marriages Registered in the Town of West Brookfield for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, page 373, Record No.5, Family Search (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 9 October 2020.). Marriage register entry for William I Hawks of Omaha, Neb., and Helen Barnes of West Brookfield. This was Williams's second marriage. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X38S-BMT