Continuing west on Dayton-Xenia you’ll note a large two story commercial building now known as Copeland Roofing. The front section was originally the farmhouse for the Morgan Dairy. Across Dayton-Xenia was a barn that was often used for basketball and socials. In the 1870’s, this was the 154 acre Adam Hawker estate which included a blacksmith shop, a cane mill (sorghum molasses), general store, platform train station (Hawker Station), and the location of the original Hawker Church and cemetery.
A hard worker of limited education, Adam and wife Hannah (Westfall) owned the first evaporator and reaper in Greene County. Adam served as a Township Trustee for five years. Please consider reading Faith of Our Fathers (available at the Beavercreekand Greene County libraries) by Miriam Engle Allen for a wonderful read on the formation of Hawker Church. Adam’s father was Andrew Hawker who came to Ohio in 1801 with Jacob Coy after marrying Jacob’s daughter, Susanna in 1798 - more on them later!
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