Mary Opal HAWKS
1897 - 1931 (33 years)-
Name Mary Opal HAWKS Birth 25 Nov 1897 Lambsburg, Carroll County, Virginia 
Gender Female Death 25 Jul 1931 Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina Person ID I34139 Marshall and Allied Families Last Modified 3 Jan 2000
Father Jefferson Davis HAWKS, b. 4 Aug 1860, Lambsburg, Carroll County, Virginia d. 1 Feb 1933, Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina (Age 72 years) Mother Louisa D. MCCRAW, b. 8 Mar 1861, Carroll County, Virginia d. 15 Jan 1926, Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina (Age 64 years) Marriage 30 Sep 1880 , Carroll County, Virginia Family ID F12219 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Earl THORNINGTON, b. 1902, Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa d. 1968, New London, Henry County, Iowa (Age 66 years) Marriage 1921 , Forsyth County, North Carolina Children 1. Irene THORINGTON 2. Celia Faye THORINGTON Family ID F12265 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Marshall 0248B - Gedcom from Larry Shelton.
Tuberculosis was very prevalent even in the early 1900's. Aunt Opal was ill
for many years before she passed away. I can remember vaguely my Mother
taking care of her and taking me with her. Her daughter Celia Faye and I were
the same age, approximately 4 years old, and she and I would play together.
My mother really grieved over the death of her sister and her two little girls. Times were so hard and "The Great Depression" made it impossible to locate them. I talk by telephone to Irene occasionally and she tells me how hard it was on her and Celia to be taken away from the people they loved after their mother died.
- Marshall 0248B - Gedcom from Larry Shelton.