Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
NameJohn Edward Hathcock 529, 6C2R
Birth2 Jun 1889, Lincoln Co TN
Death1 Jun 1963, Houston Co AL Age: 73
FatherJames Alfred Hathcock (1853-1898)
MotherSusan Doreathea Griffis (1858-1893)
Spouses
Birth6 Oct 1887, AL
Death22 Feb 1986, AL Age: 98
Marriage2 Nov 1910, Butler Co AL1014
ChildrenMary Elizabeth (1912-2005)
 Edward (1916-)
 Lula (1918-)
 Sara (1920-)
Notes for John Edward Hathcock
1930 Census of Greenville, Butler Co AL

Name Age

J. E. Hathcock 40
Ima Hathcock 42
Elizabeth Hathcock 17
Edward Hathcock 14
Lula Hathcock 12
Sara Hathcock 10

1940 Census of Dothan, Houston Co AL

Name Age

John E Hathcock 50
Ilma Hathcock 52
Sarah Hathcock 20

J. E. Hathcock Rites In Dothan Last Sunday2463

Funeral services for John Edward Hathcock, founder and president of Hathcock Lumber Co., of Dothan, who died early Saturday morning, were held at 3:00 p. m., Sunday at the First Methodist Church, Dothan. He would have been 74 that day.

A native of Lincoln County, Tenn., Mr. Hathcock had been in the lumber business 55 years. For 25 years he was associated with the W. T. Smith Lumber Co., of Greenville and Chapman. He later joined a firm in Blakely, Ga., then went to Dothan to start his own. business in 1938.

A member of the First Methodist Church, Mr. Hathcock had been a Steward. He was a Mason and a Shriner.

Mr. Hathcock served as mayor of Chapman; member of the Greenville City Council and member of the Butler County Board of Education while a citizen of Butler county. He came to Alabama affiliated with the Gulf Red Cedar Co., but went with W. T. Smith Lumber Co., soon afterwards.

The funeral was conducted by Dr. Wilbur Walton and the Rev. Thomas Sowell. Burial in Memory Hill Cemetery with Johnson Funeral Home directing.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. lima Thompson Hathcock, Dothan; a son, B. E. Hathcock, Dothan; three daughters, Mrs. Claud Blackwell, Greenville; Mrs. Lula Hall and Mrs. Robert B. McCarty, of Dothan; a brother, A. S. Hathcock, of Nashville, Tenn.; 12 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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