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Thomas Preston Hawthorn - Class Of 1907 VIEW PROFILE

We beleive Thomas graduated in 1907 based on a newspaper article in 1908.  At the time he was attending Vanderbilt University.  He was born in 1890 in Fayette County, Texas to Dr. James Hawthorn and Ann E. Hawthorn.  He had several siblings, Lucile born in 1892, Robie born in 1899,

Thomas apparently was a teacher.  He died in Panola County at the young age of 22 of appendicitis.  He was laid to rest in The Woodlawn Cemetery in Timpson.

Below is a newspaper article courtesy of Ancestry.com and the Panola Watchman on May 15, 1912.

 

Preston Hawthorn story close up

 

 

Woodlawn Cemetery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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