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Mary Etta Hawthorne DeMasters
21 Nov 1886 – 6 Jun 1970
| Birth | 21 Nov 1886 |
| Death | 6 Jun 1970 |
| Cemetery | Breckenridge Cemetery Breckenridge , Stephens County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Searchers of our Past on 10 Mar 2012 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86547045 |
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daughter of William Webster Hawthorne and Ida Bell Beers ........ Extracted from The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, TX) Sunday, June 7, 1970 Mrs. J. DeMasters BRECKENRIDGE (RNS) -- Mrs. James M. DeMasters, 86, who lived in Breckenridge for 42 years, died at 6:30 a.m. Saturday at her home in Dallas. She had been in failing health for three months. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Walker St. Church of Christ, with Jimmy Cox, minister, officiating. Burial will be in Breckenridge Cemetery under the direction of Melton Funeral Home. Born Mary Etta Hawthorne Nov. 21, 1883 [sic 1886], in Seagoville, she married James M. DeMasters Oct. 5, 1902, in Kaufman County. He died in 1967. The couple moved to Breckenridge in 1927 from Ranger. She moved to Dallas a year ago. She was a member of the Walker St. Church of Christ. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Kelly [sic Kellet] Sayre of Irving, Mrs. Bill Melton of Lubbock, Mrs. Hugh Fowler of Morley, Mo., and Mrs. Carl Carter of Dallas; two sons, Clyde of Breckenridge and Vernon of Odessa; two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Smith of San Angelo and Mrs. Grace Smith of Grapevine; one brother, Ed Birchfield of Ardmore, Okla.; 30 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. .......... Note on obituary: She was born Nov 21, 1886, and actually 83 at time of death (error by her son, Clyde DeMasters). The tombstone dates are correct. She was age 14 on the 1900 census, and just shy of age 16 when she married in 1902. They had (7) children, but one son, Forrest Eugene, died as an infant.
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- Nancy Jane Hawthorne Thrailkill McFaddin 1870–1956 FaG
- Charles Luther "Lute" Hawthorne 1887–1968 FaG
- William Hitson "Hick" Hawthorne 1889–1958 FaG
- Lillian Russell Hawthorne Dickinson 1893–1975 FaG
- Emmett Birchfield 1895–1959 FaG
- Arthur Edward Birchfield 1897–1980 FaG
- Robert Sydney Birchfield 1902–1939 FaG
- Grace Ruth Birchfield Smith 1905–1989 FaG
Children
- Suda DeMasters Fowler 1904–1976
- Vera DeMasters Carter 1905–1992
- Vernon Marquett DeMasters 1910–1980
- Christine DeMasters Melton 1915–1991
- Clyde Wayne DeMasters 1920–1988
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