Clarence Hawkes - Hadley, MA
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N 42° 20.683 W 072° 36.053
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The grave of America's Blind Naturalist, author, and poet Clarence Hawkes is located in Old Hadley Cemetery, 12 Cemetery Rd, Hadley, MA.
Waymark Code: WM113R1
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/11/2019
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The grave of Clarence Hawkes is marked by a 6' high, granite, pointed arch shaped headstone. The front of the headstone contains a triangular floral design and is inscribed HAWKES. The back of the headstone is inscribed:
CLARENCE HAWKES
BORN IN
GOSHEN, MASS.
DEC 16, 1869
JAN 19, 1954
HIS WIFE
BESSIE BELL
BORN
AUG. 27, 1869
JAN 24, 1958
Despite his physical disabilities, Clarence Hawkes became a prominent naturalist and a prolific author and poet. His leg was partially amputated when he was nine and four years later he became blind from a gun shot he received during a hunting accident.
He was educated at the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, MA. In 1899 he married Bessie Bell. He published a book of poetry Pebbles and Shells: Verses in 1895. He published over 100 books during his life, including:
A Wilderness Dog: The Biography of a Gray Wolf
A Gentleman from France: An Airedale Hero
Big Brother: The Story Of a Trick Bear
Bing: The Story of a Small Dog's Love
Black Bruin: The Biography of a Bear
Dapples Of the Circus: The Story of a Shetland Pony and a Boy
Field and Forest Friends
Hitting the Dark Trail: Starshine Through Thirty Years of Night
Idyls Of Old New England
King Of the Thundering Herd: The Biography Of An American Bison
Master Frisky
The Master of Millshaven
Nature's Children
Pal O'Mine: King of the Turf
Patches, A Wyoming Cow Pony
Pep The Brave Bull Terrier: A heart-Warming Dog Story from WWI
Peter: The Story of a Little Stoutheart
Shaggycoat: The Biography of a Beaver
Shovelhorns: : The Biography of a Moose
Silversheene: King of the Sled Dogs
Stories of the Good Green Wood
Tenants Of the Trees
The Hope Of the World and Other Poems
The Light That Did Not Fail
The Little Foresters
The Little Water-Folks; Stories of Lake and River
The Trail To the Woods
The White Czar: A Story of a Polar Bear
Trails To Woods and Waters
Wanted a Mother
Way of the Wild: Stories of Field and Forest