The Hawkins Ranch in Texas : From Plantation Times to the Present

In 1846, James Boyd Hawkins, His Wife Ariella, And Their Young Children Left North Carolina To Establish A Sugar Plantation In Matagorda County, In The Texas Coastal Bend. In The Hawkins Ranch In Texas: From Plantation Times To The Present, Margaret Lewis Furse, A Great-granddaughter Of James B. And Ariella Hawkins And An Active Partner In Today S Hawkins Ranch, Has Mined Public Records, Family Archives, And Her Own Childhood Memories To Compose This Sweeping Portrait Of More Than 160 Years Of Plantation, Ranch, And Small-town Life. Plantation Beginnings, 1846 -- North Carolina Roots -- Letters Written En Route -- Starting The Caney Sugar Plantation -- Ariella And Plantation Family Life -- The Case Of Edgar And Ways Of Thought In Slavery Times -- Building The Ranch House (lake House), 1854 -- Effects Of Civil War And Emancipation -- Frank Hawkins And The Development Of Cattle Ranching -- Ariella's Fight For Her Rights -- Young Lady Ranchers -- A Birth, A Death, And The Move To Town, 1896 -- Schooling And A House Of Their Own, 1913 -- Young Lady Ranchers In Charge, 1917 -- Courtship And Marriage -- Lizzie -- The Conversations In The Family, 1935 -- Janie And Harry -- Sister And Esker -- Meta And Jim -- Rowland And Daughty -- The Lady Visitor And The Decision -- The Ranch House And Mr. Norcross -- The Instruction Of Town And Country -- The Courthouse Square And Depot, 1935 -- The Alley Way -- Miss Tenie -- Good People On The Place -- Frank Hawkins Lewis, Cattleman -- The Future Of The Sense Of Place -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. Sketches And Letters Of The Antebellum Children. Margaret Lewis Furse. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.