- 1845 Texas Pioneer
- 1857 Utah Pioneer
John Pierce Hawley was born 4 March 1826 in Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, United States to Pierce Hawley (1788-1858) and Sarah Mariah Schroeder (1800-1894) and died 17 April 1909 Lamoni, Decatur County, Iowa, United States of unspecified causes. He married Harriet Marie Hobart (1831-1920) 4 July 1846 in Austin, Travis County, Texas, United States. He married Sylvia Johnson (1832-1909) 22 October 1849 in Zodiac, Gillespie County, Texas.
1856: Croft Wagon Company
After the Hawley family left the Wight colony in Texas, they connected with many of the Spring Creek, Texas, converts to the CJCLDS in Cherokee Indian Territory. Two Hawley brothers married two of Sebrina Land Matheny Cropper Croft's daughters in 1855. Wiliam married Nancy on 15 November 1855 and Isaac married Amelia, sometime in 1855. Thomas Waters Cropper, a fourteen-year-old boy in 1856, described the roles played by four Hawley brothers in the launch of the Croft Company's journey:
"In the Spring of 1856, we decided to go to Utah. We started in April with 150 head of cattle, some horses, three wagons, and a buggy. William Hawley, having married my half-sister, Nancy, a wagon was fitted out for them. Isaac Hawley, husband of my sister Amelia, drove one wagon and Sam Bertice drove the other wagon.
"Jacob Croft drove the buggy and Stephen Duggins drove his wagon. George and John Hawley each had a wagon. James Slade and his family had three wagons. [Enoch]Hack Shaw [Hackshaw] had an outfit as did also Robert Lloyd.
"The company started with about 200 head of cattle. Leigh [Richmond Cropper], George [Croft] and I helped to drive them. The roads to Kansas City were bad. When we arrived there, fitted out with supplies to cross the plains. We traded some twenty-five head of cattle for the supplies."
1857: Dixie Cottom Mission
The Adair Spring Monument commemorates the 1857 group of about 38 southerner families were called by Brigham Young (1801-1877) on to settle the Virgin River area of Southwest Utah and to crow cotton, to decrease the saints reliance on expensive product from back east. The first group was led by Samuel Jefferson Adair (1806-1889) and a second group led by Robert Dockery Covington (1815-1902) who was appointed president of the newly formed branch at Washington, Utah. Other pioneer families joined them in 1861 but this ambitious endeavor came to an end after the close of the Civil War and cotton prices collapsed.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Abinadi Hawley (1851-1935) | |||
| Alma Hawley (1853-1927) | |||
| Sarah Hawley (1856-1924) | |||
| John Hawley (1858-1859) | |||
| Eber Pierce Hawley (1860-1932) | |||
| Sylvia Amelia Hawley (1862-1863) | |||
| William Nephi Hawley (1864-1864) | |||
| Isaac Zimri Hawley (1866-1944) | |||
| Gazelum Hawley (1868-1869) | 31 January 1868 Pine Valley, Washington County, Utah, United States | 10 February 1869 Pine Valley, Washington County, Utah, United States | |
| Lucy Lovnia Hawley (1870-1964) | |||
| Mary Caroline Hawley (1873-1956) | |||
| Francis Aaron Hawley (1875-1949) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Caroline Hawley (1811-1888) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Mary Hawley (1823-1852) | |||
| George Hawley (1824-1905) | 14 September 1824 DuPage County, Illinois, United States | 20 July 1905 Holden, Johnson County, Missouri, United States | Ann Hadfield (1830-1886) Jeannette Goudie (1841-1917) Sarah Hadfield (1827-1864) |
| John Pierce Hawley (1826-1909) | 4 March 1826 Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, United States | 17 April 1909 Lamoni, Decatur County, Iowa, United States | Harriet Marie Hobart (1831-1920) Sylvia Johnson (1832-1909) |
| Aaron Madison Hawley (1828-1870) | |||
| William Schroeder Hawley (1829-1893) | |||
| Pricilla Hawley (1831-1927) | |||
| Isaac Heber Hawley (1833-1870) | |||
| Henry Hawley (1835-1858) | |||
| Lavina Hawley (1838-) | |||
| Gideon Hawley (1842-1918) | |||
Residences
Vital Records
- Washington County, Utah/1860 U.S. Census - Residing at Household #1164 in Pine Valley, Utah.
See Also
- John Hawley
- Hawley in LaSalle County, Illinois
- Hawley in Travis County, Texas
- Hawley in Washington County, Texas