Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameHawkins G. SHOCK 377
Birth Date29 Nov 1829
Birth PlaceBoone County, Missouri
Death Date24 Feb 1894 Age: 64
Death PlaceJackson County, Oregon
Burial PlaceEagle Point, Jackson County, Oregon, John Mathews Pioneer Cemetery
OccupationUnion Soldier, Co. 1, 1st Oregon Infantry,Reverend
FatherDavid Hurst SHOCK (1800-1880)
MotherCynthia Ann GIBSON (1805-1889)
Spouses
Birth Date1806
Birth PlaceRandolph County, North Carolina
Death Date12 May 1886 Age: 80
Burial PlaceEagle Point, Jackson County, Oregon, John Mathews Pioneer Cemetery
Family ID5520
Notes for Hawkins G. SHOCK
CO. 1.
1st Oregon Inf.
Post 47 Medford GAR

Hawkins G. Shock, son of David Hurst Shock and Cynthia Gibson Shock, left his Boone County home for Oregon.

Paternal grandparents:
John Shock (1771-1854)
Mary Polly Sheley (1779-1863

Rev. Hawkins G. Shock wrote this song in 1854 & sent it back to his family in Boone County Missouri.

"Then I parted away from you
In sorrow grief and trouble too
You gave to me your parting hand
And wished me safe to Oregon

And on our journey we did steer
Over hills & valleys & rivers clear
Through a desert place & a barren land
We steered our course for Oregon

When we got there there was ice & snow
It rained, it hailed & winds did blow
And some of us did weep and cry
Staying here with cold we all shall die

But thank the Lord here health we found
We have landed here both safe and sound
To a wholesome place and a welcome soil
Here is milk here wine both corn & oil

Ten thousand new graves we found
Built up with Fremont works around
Which makes us think in days of old
Some Christian race has passed this place

I have nothing strange to write to you
Since preaching is here & religion too
We are here in peace and all as one
With the Indian tribes of Oregon

My love to you I can't unfold
It is like some ring that made of gold
Its round its pure i has no end
So is my love to you my friend."
On Find A Grave.
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Notes for Martha (Spouse 1)
MAIDEN NAME: COLE [not nickname]
FIRST HUSBANDS LAST NAME: WOOLEY
SECOND HUSBANDS LAST NAME: SHOCK
ON MARKER: Martha Shock WOOLEY

Daughter of Rachel Williams and Mark Cole of Randolph County, North Carolina. She married Rev. Hawkins Shock and Michael Wooley; all her children were with Wooley.
On Find A Grave.
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