Woman of the Century — Annie Sherwood Hawks (1893)
“ That poem at once attracted attention and was followed others which were printed in various local ANNIE SHERWOOD HAWKS. papers. Miss Sherwood became the wife, in 1859, of Charles Hial Hawks, a resident of Hoosick Mr. Hawks was a man of culture ami intelligence, and hr understood and appreciated his wife. In January, 1865, Mr. and Mrs. Hawks removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., in which city Mrs. Hawks still makes her home. Her husband died there in 1888. They had three children, one of whom, a daughter, is now living Mrs. Hawks has always been identified with the Baptist denomination. ”
