Individual Details

Caroline Bernice Hawkinson

(3 Dec 1935 - )

BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-PARENTS: FGS prepared by Caroline Ashcraft; 1935-1995;
Caroline Ashcraft; ; FGS in possession of AFH.

ADDRESS: (1993); Caroline Ashcraft, 2827 Tyne, San Antonio TX 78222

I was born in Jordan, Montana in 1935. Our family, consisting of my mother and
father and older brother, Chester, moved to the Harris, Minnesota area when I
was very young. Art and Dorothy were both born while we were living there.

We moved back to Jordan in time for me to enter school there. An early hobby
was collecting match book covers and I have always enjoyed dancing.

I lived in or near Jordan until my marriage to Charles Schweers in 1952.
Charles and I moved to Texas. We first lived on Military Drive in San Antonio
with Charles' parents, later buying our own home on Sharmain Place on San
Antonio's south side.

Alta was born in 1953 and Janine in 1954. While Charles attended Trinity
College, I worked as a cashier at Fedmart before going to Sears in 1960.
Charles graduated from Trinity in 1963 and opened Charlie's Auto Parts on S.W.
W.W. White Road on San Antonio's east side. We sold the house on Sharmain and
built a new home on the east side in 1968. We were separated and divorced in
1971.

In 1972, David Ashcraft and I were married in Milbank, South Dakota. We
sold the house on Knotty Oak Trail in 1973 and tried moving to Wisconsin but
returned within a few months--- once a Texan, always a Texan--- guess it gets
in your blood.

(Caroline Ashcraft, 1973)

Reminiscence (July 2004):
Caroline had travelled alone to Harris by train. When the train arrived in Harris she got off and began walking to Belle's, only she was walking the wrong direction. A neighbor saw her, asked who she was and where she was going. She told him and he called Belle and Enoch who came to get her. She said they were glad they got her before she had walked as far at the old barn with the scarecrow. She has pictures from Willie's funeral. She recalled that she had been roller skating with Karin when they came to get them and told them Willie had died. This would have been in 1948 when Caroline was 12.


NOPRINT:
ADDRESS (1990): Caroline Ashcraft, 2935 Calder Dr., M10, League City, TX 77573

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The Jordan Tribune, 8March1951

FRESHMEN WILL GIVE PLAY MARCH 16

"The Funny Brats," a 3-act play will be presented by the Freshman class of the
Garfield County High School on Friday afternoon and evening, March 16. The
play, directed by Miss Mary Hoose, is the first 3-act play to be presented by a
Freshman class at GCHS.

Members of the cast are:

Harriet Greshman, Karen James

Aurota Borealis Pike, Caroline Hawkinson

Mrs. Sylvia Gresham, Irene Schmidt

Dick Gresham, Jack Brooks

Tom Gresham, Roger Fellman

Lauralee Lynde, Sarah Boughton

Gwynette Gahwood, Ethel Lane

Aunt Hettie Higginbotham, Hazel Mack

Whaley McWhorter, Dick Sturtz

Boogerface Boggs, Mike Pettit

Uncle Loren, Billie Winfield

Funds from the play will be used by the Freshman for future projects of the
class.

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[San Antonio, Texas paper] May1953

BABY GIRL BORN

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schweers, Jr., 906 S.W. Military Drive, welcomed the
arrival of their first baby on April 29 in the Nix Hospital. Little Alta
Avone checked in a five pounds, fourteen ounces. Her proud grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schweers, Sr., 906 S.W. Military Drive, and Mr. and Mrs.
Jerome Saylor, Brusett, Montana.

Events

Birth3 Dec 1935Jordan, Garfield, Mont.
Marriage22 Nov 1952Charles W. Jr. Schweers
Marriage21 Jun 1972Milbank, SD - David K. Ashcraft
DivorceDavid K. Ashcraft
DivorceCharles W. Jr. Schweers

Families