Husband Harold R. Hawkey 1
Born: 21 Jul 1892 - Barnes, Sheffield Twp, Warren Co, PA 1
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Father: Thomas Charles Hawkey (1867-Aft 1943) 1
Mother: Lizzie McKalip (1871-Aft 1943) 1
Marriage: 28 Jul 1915 2
Wife Abigail Lynch Cumings 1
Born: 17 Nov 1893 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 1
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Father: Henry Harrison Cumings (1840-1913) 3 4 5
Mother: Charlotte Jane Sink (1846-1913) 1 3 5
Children
1 M Harold R. Hawkey, Jr. 6
Born: 13 Apr 1920 6
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2 F Rebecca Jane Hawkey 6
Born: 25 Feb 1924 6
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General Notes: Husband - Harold R. Hawkey
He spent the greater part of his boyhood in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated from high school in 1910. After attending Huff's Business College in Warren and spending two years at the University of Pennsylvania, he became associated with the Natural Gasoline Company and continued the connection until the company was sold to the Tidioute Refining Company. At this time he enlisted for World War service in the Aviation Corps of the United States Army and was stationed at Richfield Flying Field in Texas, where he spent eighteen months as oil chemist. After the Armistice he was honorably discharged from the service with the rank of second lieutenant and was then commissioned first lieutenant in the Aviation Reserve Corps, in which he held a commission for five years.
Following the war, Mr. Hawkey became an independent oil producer in the Pennsylvania fields. In addition to his activities as a producer, he was manager of the Wolverine Service Station in Tidioute, a stock holder in the Wolf's Head Refining Company of Oil City and a director of the East Brady Gas Fuel Company, at East Brady, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Hawkey was prominent in the Masonic Order, in which he was affiliated with Temple Lodge, No. 412, Free and Accepted Masons, at Tidioute, and with various higher bodies, including Occidental Chapter, No. 235, Royal Arch Masons; Coudersport Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; and Zem Zem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Erie. He was Potentate Representative of his Temple in Tidioute. Mr. Hawkey was also affiliated with the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at the University of Pennsylvania and was a member of Elzie Lynch Post, American Legion, in Tidioute. He was a Republican in politics and a member of the Methodist Church in his city.
General Notes: Wife - Abigail Lynch Cumings
She was educated in the grade and high schools of Tidioute, Pennsylvania, and in 1912 was graduated from Miss Marshall's School in Philadelphia, later studying voice with Philadelphia teachers. She was choir director of the Tidioute Methodist Church over a period of years and also a Sunday school teacher and officer in the Women's Society and an active figure in conference missionary work of the church. As a club woman and civic leader, her other interests were numerous. Mrs. Hawkey was Regent of Tidioute Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. In this order she served three years as State Historian of the Pennsylvania Society, Daughters of the American Revolution; was past chairman of the Caroline Scott Harrison Memorial Committee; served three years on the State Credentials Committee; and established the State Filing and Lending Bureau for historical papers in the possession of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She served on the National Credentials Committee of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Hawkey was also a member of the Daughters of American Colonists, in which she was Vice-Regent of Kanoagoa Chapter and in which she served for six years as State chairman of the Filing and Lending Bureau for historical papers of the Daughters of American Colonists.
She was one of the organizers of the Parent-Teachers Association in Tidioute, served as its first president from 1929 to 1934, became county president in the latter year and in 1938 was elected vice-president and in 1941 president of the Northwestern District, Parent-Teachers Association. One of the organizers of the Fort-nightly Club of Tidioute, she served as its president for eight years and was subsequently elected Warren County president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Hawkey was secretary of the Young People's Conference for several years and dean of the Queen Esther Summer Camp. In 1933 she was elected president of the board of the Ruth M. Smith Children's Home, a missionary home.