1873 - 1950

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• Birth	13 Apr 1873	Algona, Iowa
  Gender	Male
  Died	13 Jan 1950	Tacoma, Washington
  Buried	Centralia, Washington Greenwood Memorial Cemetery
  Person ID	I29105	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Frederick Webber HAWES, b. 9 Aug 1845, Corinna, Maine
  Mother	Harriet Lovica B. WILSON, b. 24 Nov 1852, Genoa, Illinois
  Family ID	F11938	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Maria NOELL
  Married	1900	San Juan, Puerto Rico
  Children	1. Isabel Conception HAWES   2. Robert HAWES
  Family ID	F11942	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Anna Martha FRANZ, b. 17 Nov 1877, Forst, Niederlausitz, Germany, emigrated to America 1884
  Married	7 Jun 1907	New York, New York
  Children	> 1. Frederic William HAWES, b. 11 Aug 1910, Chicago, Il   2. Thomas Franz HAWES > 3. Jane Ernestine HAWES > 4. Mary Anne HAWES, b. 23 Jun 1917, Henryetta, Ok
  Family ID	F11943	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Admitted to the bar in 1984, he had worked for the law firm of A.G. Mosely,was an assistant D.A. in 1896, left in July 1898 to serve int he Spanish-American War. Became ill with a rheumatic condition while serving in the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry in Tampa, FL. This resulted in a slight limp and he wasrelieved of riding duty and ordered to report to Col. Teddy Roosevelt as a clerk. When Teddy Roosevelt was serving as govenor of New York a letter datedFebruary 26, 1900 was wrtten from Roosevelt to Elihu Root , Secretary of Warin Washginton, D.C. recommending Frederick W. Hawes for a Second Lieutenancyin the Mounted Battalion of native troops on the island of Puerto Rico. March 12, 1901 (Roosevelt now Vice President of the U.S.) Roosevelt recommendedHawes for a regular army 2nd lieutenant commission. Because of ill health, Frederick turned downthe commission, stayed in San Juan six years and worked up to the position of Chief Clerk in the Adjutant General's office. During this time he married Maria Noell, but divorced shortly after the birth ofthe 2nd child. Frederick married again Anna Martha Franz June 7, 1907; sometime during 1910 he moved his family to the wilderness of Henryburg, Saskatchewan, Canada. When WWI was breaking out, he moved again to Oklahoma to enlist, but was turned down because of age and a family. In 1920 he moved to Centralia, WA where he ran a huge chicken farm.