Fletcher Hawk (1857-1939)

Retired Educator Buried Saturday
Prof. Fletcher Hawk Was Former County School Superintendent

Funeral services for Prof. Fletcher Hawk, pioneer Warren county schoolmaster, who passed away at his home here Thursday at the age of 81 years, eight months, were conducted at the Oswald funeral Home Saturday afternoon, in charge of Rev. Owen E. Wherrett, pastor of the East Baptist Church. Interment was in Lebanon Cemetery.
Prof. Hawk was born near Wilkesville, Clinton county, where he spent his early life. In 1887 he married Celia Maria Adams to whom were born three children, Eugene, Genevieve and Clara.
Several years after the death of his first wife he was united in marriage to Laura Wittenburg Ewing who preceded him in death in 1909. They have a daughter, Lorna, of Washington, D.C.
Prof. Hawk was a graduate of National Normal University with the class of 1885, although he began his teaching career in 1874 in a one-room school house in Meigs county. He later attended Houston Normal College at Houston, Miss. From 1888-90 he served as principal of the Monroe high school, and taught in the Cincinnati schools from 1890 to 1901. Coming to Lebanon as a Latin professor in 1901, Prof. Hawke served in that capacity at the university here for many years.
From 1914 to 1920, Prof. Hawk served as the first superintendent of county schools and after 1920 conducted classes for soldiers of the World War in Manilla, Philippine Islands. Upon his return he taught in the Madeira schools. Since his retirement he has made his home in Lebanon.
Prof. Hawke was an active member of the East Baptist Church and for many years taught in the Sunday school
Survivors include four children, Eugene, of Manila Philippine Islands; Genevieve and Lorna, of Washington D.C. and Clara, of Rochester, N.Y.

Source: unnamed paper dated 12 Jan 1939
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren County Genealogical Society,

by
Arne H Trelvik
15 July 2015