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Property records showing the specific transfer of ownership of 1140 Lincoln from Magnus and Jane Rasmuson to Henry Hawkins could not be located for this report. However, in 1945, Henry transferred ownership from just himself to both himself and Flora Hawkins. Flora Hawkins passed away in 1980. Following the death of Flora, in the mid-1980s, Henry returned to England for a visit with his daughter, Gloria, and her husband. In 1987, Henry Hawkins transferred ownership of the house from himself to both himself and his daughter, Wilma Hawkins Martella. Henry Hawkins died in 1988. The house at 1140 Lincoln at this point then became primarily associated with Wilma and Clarence Martella and particularly one of their children, Doug Martella. Louisville directories starting in 1990 listed Doug Martella as the resident of 1140 Lincoln. In 2001, Wilma Martella transferred ownership from just herself to both herself and her husband, Clarence. Clarence Martella died in 2006. Wilma Hawkins Martella died in 2011. In 2014, the house was sold by her estate to the current owner. Information about the House and Alterations Henry and Flora Hawkins's daughter Gloria has provided information about the house from when she lived there and from later visits to her parents. She said that the house used to have a living room, dining room, a kitchen at the southeast corner of the house, a back porch, a front porch, and two bedrooms. Wilma and Gloria shared a room with twin beds. When their grandfather Joe Zarini moved in, he and Gilbert had the bedroom with the twin beds. Wilma and Gloria then slept on a studio couch kept in the dining room that had to be set up and taken down every day. When Wilma married and Gloria went to nursing school and Gilbert left for the service, Gloria would sleep in her old bedroom in one of the twin beds when she would come home to visit. In the 1950s, Henry made some changes to the house. The 1955 County Assessor card makes reference to some remodeling. What had been the kitchen on the southeast corner became another bedroom. Henry then added a new kitchen and a utility room to the back of the house. The utility room was where the back porch used to be. There was a dirt cellar with a dirt floor where they kept foods that Flora had canned, plus home -brewed beer and root beer that Henry made. The entrance to the cellar used to be in the floor of the back porch. When the back porch area became the utility room, the door to the cellar was then from the utility room. Henry poured the patio and covered it with a roof by the new kitchen at the back of the house. Henry Hawkins also enclosed the front porch. It contained a couch and a chair and became a little more living space. 5