Hawley Warrens was a long term minister of the Old Regular Baptist Church, New Salem Association, and served as the long term moderator of the Steele's Creek Old Regular Baptist Church. He was born in Floyd County Kentucky at Minnie in 1889 and died at Hi Hat in 1977. But he had lived the majority of his life on a farm at Dema in Knott County about a mile and a half south of the Floyd/Knott County line on Right Beaver Creek. I apologize for the poor quality of the photo which I have located in the obituary in the Floyd County Times. He was the son of Whitt Warrens and Nance Moore Warrens. His first wife was Caroline Moore Warrens and they had eight children, five boys and three girls. Caroline died very young in her middle forties and Hawley then married Mandy Layne who also died before Hawley. He was also married later in life to Dorothy Little Warrens. He joined the Old Regular Baptist Church in 1914 when he was about 25. He had been a member of the church for about 63 years at the time of his death. About 5 years after he joined the church, he was ordained as a minister in 1919 and continued to preach and work as an officer of the church for most of the remainder of his life. His funeral was conducted at the Old Beaver New Salem Association Building on Left Beaver Creek in Floyd County near Minnie. Due to his long service to the church and association, his funeral was attended by large numbers of people from the entire area served by the New Salem Association. He had been one of the best loved and most respected members and ministers of the New Salem Association. He was buried in the Turner Cemetery at Dema near the farm where he had lived most of his life.
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