Who was P. C. Hawkins?
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Plato Commodore Hawkins was born on October 18, 1876. He married Nancy Jane McDaniel in 1899 in Rutherford County.
Their children were sons Daniel Reid and Paul Cephas; daughters Melrose, Jennie, and Agnes, or “Peg” as she was called. (Peg married Esper Brown and they lived in Cliffside for many years.)
During the early 1910s, Plato was overseer of the weaving department at Cliffside Mills. By 1930 he was Superintendent and lived with his family at 27 N. Main Street.
Daughter Jennie Hawkins has written a memoir entitled “Turn My Face Toward Cliffside.”
Plato died on September 1, 1937. His death was said to be the result of an automobile accident that occurred in the driveway of his home. Nancy lived on another 40 years, to the age of 98. She died on March 5, 1978. Both are buried in Cliffside Cemetery.
Sources: Judson O. Crow, Sr., 1930 Federal Census, W. D. Floyd's Rutherford County Cemeteries