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M Thomas Hawkes

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Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 410-411:
James Stewart, a farmer and carpenter in Gosfield North, is the last surviving member of a family long known in the County of Essex, where they were among the earliest of the pioneer settles... He was born in the County of Norfolk, Middleton township, Oct. 13, 1840, son of Rev. James and Jane (Philpox) Stewart.
     Originally three brothers came from Scotland to America: ... Charles Stewart, with his wife, Peggy, made his home in Mersea township... He had seven children, all now deceased: ... Rev. James...
     Rev. James Stewart was born in 1794. While he owned and lived on a farm, his life work was in the Baptist ministry, and he was a well-known preacher in the County of Essex... He was twice married... by the second union with Jane Philpox, born in Iona, Canada, in 1800, there were three children, namely: ... Eliza A., the late wife of Thomas Hawkes, of Grand Rapids, Michigan...