Humphrey Avery Hawkins b. 1 Sep 1849 Bayport, Suffolk, New York, United States d. 19 Feb 1872 at sea

1849 - 1872 (22 years)

Name	Humphrey Avery Hawkins
Born	1 Sep 1849	Bayport, Suffolk, New York, United States
Gender	Male
Died	19 Feb 1872	at sea
Buried	Waverly Street Cemetery, Patchogue, Suffolk, New York, United States
Person ID	I26395	Molloy-Remde Family Tree Aug 23
Last Modified	5 Sep 2022

Father	Warren Hawkins, b. 23 Mar 1819, Bayport, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 31 Dec 1912, Bronx, Bronx, New York, United States (Age 93 years)
Mother	Eliza Avery, b. 7 Aug 1822, Bayport, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 9 Nov 1859, Bayport, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 37 years)
Married	3 Dec 1839
Family ID	F5711	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Notes

Died by drowning off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

Inscription:
"Son of Warren & Eliza Hawkins Drowned at sea Feb. 10, 1872 Age 22 yrs. 7 mos. & 18 days"
Thy way is in the sea, Thy paths we cannot trace, Nor savor O Lord the mystery, of thy unbounded grace"

Note: Located in the Gerard Section of the Waverly Avenue Cemeteries

Obituary - Humphrey Avery Hawkins, son of Warren and Eliza Hawkins, was born at Bayport, L.I. Sept. 1, 1849. He was a seaman and died, unmarried, Feb. 19, 1872, when the schooner Rachel A. Edwards, loaded with lumber at Little Washington, N.C. and bound to Philadelphia, encountered a storm off Cape Hatteras and was wrecked with all hands lost but its mate. According to the South Side Signal of Babylon, L.I., of March 9, 1872 and reprinted in 1931, in the Suffolk County News, a huge wave capped and broke over the vessel's stern, smashing the rudder and flooding the cabin, when it was nearly across the Gulf Stream. The wheel was carried away and along with it the captain. With the water continuing to pour in, the schooner soon went on her beam ends. The crew crawled up on the upper side and clung to the rigging, but, the mast breaking, the vessel righted and so suddenly that it threw all overboard excepting the mate, who held fast to the chain plate. With his other hand he caught Humphrey Hawkins by the collar, but finding the struggle useless, Humphrey told him to let go and was seen no more. After clinging to the water-logged wreck three days and two nights, the mate was finally picked up by a sailing vessel bound from Maine to Baltimore when sighting the wreck in its course. Humprey was engaged at the time to be married to a young woman in Babylon, from which vicinity came most of the crew of the ill-fated vessel.
(Source: A Hawkins Genealogy 1635-1939, page 133 and South Side Signal of Babylon, LI dated 9 March, 1872 and reprinted in 1931 in the Suffolk County News)