General Information

Birth
13 JAN 1891
(See Notes for Delta May Cawthon)
Death
10 JUL 1976
Fayetteville, Washington Co, AR
Burial
World War I, France

Notes

From notes of Lula (Hunton) Cawthon:

Daddy's Table BlessingNov 30

Dear Heavenly Father, we thank thee for this table spread with the comforts of life. Bless this food for its intended use for the nursement [nourishment] of our body and minds, and eventually save us in thy kingdom. We ask thro' Jesus name. Amen.

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John Martin [Leo's father] farmed the land where Northwest Arkansas Mall is today [Fayetteville] and the fields below the mall on the east and west side of highway 471 [previously US 71]. Leo told his granddaughter that when he lived there the whole area at one time was planted in corn. He guessed there must have been near a hundred or more acres of corn.

Leo was baptized in 1906 at the Shady Grove Baptist Church of Christ (Flashback, March 1950).

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SCRAPBOOK Picture 3: Shady Grove School

In Johnson (or Springdale?), Washington Co, AR. Leo went to school here. His siblings Delt, Lillian, Minerva, and Johnnie are in the picture.

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Leo and Lula were married on the steps that went upstairs from what is now the master bedroom in Dale and Theda Ezell's house.

When Dale and Theda moved into that house in May 1947, Leo and Lula moved to Des Moines, in time to get Helen in school there that fall. Lula worked in a candy factory there. Sometime later they called: Leo was in the V.A. hospital. Dale and Theda got Blanche and Ellis came over to milk while Dale and Theda went to Des Moines.

In 1948, Leo and Lula moved to an apartment in Siloam while building their new house next door. Leo cut the trees for the lumber and took them "next door" to Walter Thompson's to have them cut into lumber.

(Theda [Cawthon] Ezell to Richard Ezell, 24 April 2004.)

Parents

John Martin Cawthon
- Father
1857 - 1923
Birth
28 FEB 1857
Adair, Iowa, USA
Death
14 JAN 1923
Washington Co, AR
Burial
Norwood Cem, Washington Co, AR
Virginia Etta Lenox
- Mother
1863 - 1927
Birth
6 JAN 1863
MO
Death
13 JAN 1927
Washington Co, AR
Burial
Norwood Cem, Washington Co, AR

Spouse

Lula Lavender Hunton
- Wife
1894 - 1973
Birth
7 MAY 1894
Washington Co, AR (new Hunton home)
Married
10 SEP 1919
Washington Co, AR
Death
2 MAY 1973
Washington Co, AR
Burial
Weddington Cem, Washington Co, AR

Children

Theda Faye Cawthon
- Daughter
1928 - 2017
Birth
29 SEP 1928
Tulsa, Tulsa Co, OK
Death
8 MAY 2017
Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas
Burial
12 MAY 2017
Wedington Cemetery, Washington County, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Mary Virginia Mary Jean Cawthon
- Daughter
1922 - 1997
Birth
1 APR 1922
Tulsa, Tulsa Co, OK
Death
23 APR 1997
Des Moines, Polk Co, IA
Burial
26 APR 1997
Sunset Memorial Gardens, Des Moines, IA
Helen Lorene Cawthon
- Daughter
1932 - 2024
Birth
23 APR 1932
Collins, Story Coounty, Iowa
Death
5 JUL 2024
Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas
Burial
National Cemetery, Washington County, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Harry Herschel Cawthon
- Son
1921 - 1921
Birth
17 APR 1921
Tulsa, Tulsa Co, OK
Death
17 APR 1921
Tulsa, Tulsa Co, OK
Burial
Rose Hill Cem, Tulsa, OK, No. 19, Letter D