S. T. Hawkins: b. 1903, d. 1982

S(amuel) T. Hawkins (b. 1903, d. 1982) appeared in the 1972 film They Sing of a Heaven, 10:40 in. He says:

“ My uncle William, Uncle Billy Hawkins, when he died, I was a strip of a kid, bound to have been three or four years old, and went to funeral and my daddy and them went to the funeral and I don't remember going to the house. I remember driving up the house because the horses was there, but I don't remember the body. And I remember going on to the church house. I still don't remember the body, but I remember the song, the song they sung. The song we sung was... ‘♪ And now I am born to die ♪ ♪ To lay this body down ♪’ That's all I remember. Don't even remember taking him to the grave and covering him up or nothing. I remember that song. That song been with me from that day to this one. I still love the song.

(His wife, Cleo Hawkins, is also in the film.)

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