He is married to Jane Elizabeth Hicks.
Marriage Record Details
Last Name: Hicks
First Name: Jane E
Day:09
Month: July
Year:1848
County: Walworth
Volume: 1
Page: 626
Marriage Record Details
Last Name: Hawver
First Name: John
Day:09
Month: July
Year:1848
County: Walworth
Volume: 1
Page: 626
They got married on July 9, 1848 at Walworth Co., Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten, he was 28 years old.Sources 1, 3
Child(ren):
History of McHenry County, Illinois
p. 478-479
JOHN HAWVER, section 2, Chemung Township, was born in Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., N. Y., April 7, 1820, a son of John I. and Catherine (DOBBS) Hawver, natives of New York. When twenty years of age he came with his brother Peter to Illinois and settled in Chemung Township, McHenry County. During harvest he worked for $12 a month, and money being scarce took his pay in cattle and hay. He finally got himself a farm, was married and commenced life. In 1853 he went to Green County, Wis., and remained until the fall of 1869, when he returned to Big Foot Prairie and bought the old Nathaniel Smith farm where he has since resided. He owns 170 acres of choice land, fifty acres lying in Alden Township. He is one of the most enterprising farmers of the township, and an influential and highly esteemed gentleman. Mr. Hawver was married July 9, 1848, to Jane E. Hicks, a native of Schoharie County, N.Y., daughter of John and Henrietta (BALDWIN) HICKS. They have a family of five children - Leonora, born April 15, 1850, is the wife of Jame Barnes, of Chemung Township; J. S., born May 18, 1852, married to Fidelia Hildreth; Monroe D., born April 14, 1854, married Esther Bell; Ulysses S., born May 26, 1864, and Chester C., born May 28, 1874, are at home. Mr. Hawver has experienced all the phases of pioneer life and has lived to see the county brought to its advanced state of cultivation. In 1884 he made a trip to California, and while there witnessed the capture of a whale from the deck of the vessel which captured it.