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William Wilburn Hackworth

W.W. Hackworth was born in 1814, probably in Morgan Co., Alabama. His father was probably Nickademus Hackworth, who died in Morgan Co., Alabama in 1853. Nickademus' father was Augustine Austin Hackworth, who was a soldier in the American Revolution. According to Col. David Hackworth (whose Revolutionary Hackworth ancestor was John, brother of Augustine), Augustine was one of five brothers from Virginia who fought in the same company. A statue to their honor stands today in Bedford, Virginia.

A veteran of the Texas Revolution and the American Civil War (Confederate side), W.W. Hackworth married Eliza Jane Pennington in 1839. She was a daughter of Riggs Pennington, who moved his family to Texas from Illinois in 1837.

According to one family legend, W.W. Hackworth and John Dupuey had tagged along with the wagon train Riggs Pennington had organized to take his family and friends from Illinois to Texas, because they were in love with two of Riggs' daughters. This might have happened, since they did later marry the girls, but how, why, when or if W.W. got to Illinois or if he met them along the way, or even whether this story is true or not is an unsolved mystery.

William Wilburn Hackworth died in March, 1882 and is buried in the Prarie Lea Cemetary in Brenham, Washington County, Texas.


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