2. | Thomas Nelson Hawkins was born in Aug 1859 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee (son of Unknown Gentleman and Deborah M. Hawkins); died on 15 Mar 1940 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Maymead Cemetery, , Johnson County, Tennessee. Notes:
"Elizabethton Star," Sunday, March 17, 1940
THOMAS NELSON HAWKINS
Funeral services for Thomas Nelson Hawkins, 82, caretaker at the Junior High School for the past six years, who died Friday morning, will be held from the Church of God in the Arney Addition at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. Rev. R. E. Worley and Rev. F. R. Harrowood will officiate. Burial will be made at Maymead Cemetery in Johnson County, home of Mr. Hawkins.
Survivors are five sons, John Hawkins, Palouse, Wash.; Paul, James, Ralph, Geoffrey Hawkins, Elizabethton; one stepson, Harmon Shell, Elizabethton; four daughters, Mrs. W. M. Harvey, Bigen, Wash.; Mrs. S. L. Huggins, Palous, Wash.; Mrs. C. L. Poarch, Elizabethton; Miss Rose Smith, Sopake, Wash.; fourteen grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; one brother, Elbert Hawkins, Johnson County; two sisters, Mrs. Rose Willis and Mrs. Ellen Gregg, Johnson County.
All of Thomas Nelson Hawkins' children moved to Washington state following the death of their mother.
Thomas married Claricy Lendona "Donie" Gragg on 1 Aug 1879 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. Claricy (daughter of John Gragg and Malinda Curtis) was born in May 1859 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died before 1910 in , Giles County, Tennessee, . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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