Martha? married LONDON John in BEF. 1788 in Wilkes Co, North Carolina. John (son of LONDON Amos and CRANMER Sarah) was born in 1760 in Monmouth Co, NJ; died in Oct 1832 in Lewisburg, Marthall Co., TN; was buried in London Cemeter, Marshall Co, TN. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

James Richard London appears in the 1850 census in Ripley Co, MO in another household. It is listed as Ellender Moor, female, 39, Anjaline Moor, 10, Richard London, 47. He never returned to his wife and may have married Ellender.

James married KENNEDY Nancy in 1823 in Giles Co, TN. Nancy (daughter of KENNEDY John) was born in 1801; died in 1869 in Ripley Co, MO. [Group Sheet]

James married BERRY Rutha. Rutha (daughter of BERRY John and UNKNOWN Delilah) was born in 1841 in TN; died in Apr 1858 in Madison Co, IL. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Martha was born in April, 1858, the same month her mother died. Martha was the first and only child of James London and Rutha Berry, Rutha's father had died 4 months before his daughter. Martha can be found on the 1860 census records living with her father in Madison Co, MO, Liberty Township, Fredericktown, MO. They are family number 376, James London, 23 years old, born in NC, farmer, Martha A. London, 2 years old, born MO.

Martha can be found in the 1870 census records in Liberty Township, Madison County, MO, livng alone. Her father had remarried and started a new family and Martha was not included in that family. She is listed as 12 years old, born in MO and living with the Lwellen family who were farmers from KY. Not only is Martha without a family, she is not attending school and cannot yet read and write.

The next census record, 1876, Martha is found livng with her husband and children. Since the first child was born in 1875, the marriage most likely took place in 1874 when Martha was 16 and her husband was 18.

Martha had apparently moved with her two children, Mary Estelle and Jessie, to Wood River, IL sometime after 1910 from Iron Co, MO. She and Katarina Sonnenberg (future mother in law of Mary Estelle (Stella) who would marry John Sonnenberg in 1912, bought a family buriel plot in Alton, IL (Madison Co) sometime before her death there in 1916. She and Katarina and Jessie Hawk, as well as George Sonnenberg and his wife Annie, are all buried there. Her son, Jessie Hawk, witnessed the death certificate. Cause of death was heart failure, with general dibility a contributing factor. Attending physician was H.B. Giths from Woodriver, IL.

1910 Census Records, Iron Co, MO, Arcadia Twp (Pilot Knob)

Martha Hawk, 48 years old, born MO, widowed, 9 children, 5 alive, rents a home, cannot read or write
Jessie, son 19, laborer in factory, can read and write
Stella, daughter, 16, in school, can read and write
Bessie, 6

There is some confusion on number of children reported born by Martha. On 1900 census records she reported 9 children born and 7 living, in 1910 she reported 9 children with 5 alive, but at least one child (Bessie) was born after 1900 making total born 10 or more.

Adair Sonnenberg, daughter in law of Stella Hawk Sonnenberg, reported that she had been told that the father of Stella (William Hawk) had been shot in the back by an irate husband for some inappropriate behavior with the husband's spouse.

Martha married HAWK William in ABT. 1874 in Probably Iron Co, MO. William (son of HAWK Elijah and UNKNOWN Mary) was born in Nov 1858 in Iron County, IL; died in BET. 1905 - 1910 in Iron County, MO. [Group Sheet]