Cawthon Siblings' Obituaries - Children of Rutherford P. Cawthon

© Kathy Duncan, 2019

This study in obituary groups focuses on the children of my great-great-grandfather, Rutherford Porter Cawthon. They will be placed in order of death.

Children of Rutherford Porter Cawthon and wife Susan Jane Mason:

1. Leona Gray Cawthon b. 26 January 1855 married John Thomas Chapman
2. James Buchanan Cawthon b. 8 October 1856
3. Mary Charlotte "Maggie" Cawthon b. 8 March 1858, d. 3 March 1918, married William Sargent          Chapman
4. Dick R. Cawthon b. 25 January 1860

Children of Rutherford Porter Cawthon and his second wife, Karen Rebecca Mason:

5. Randolph M. Cawthon b. 18 December 1862, d. 24 June 1891, Arkansas
6. Susan Alice Cawthon b. 15 May 1866
7. Willie Porter Cawthon b. 28 September 1868, d. 12 October 1904, Wylie, Collin Co., TX
8. Rosanah Matilda Cawthon b. 25 August 1870, d. 11 February 1933
9. Jesse Franklin Cawthon b. 15 March 1876, d. 15 January 1961 m. Clara Follett
10. Charles Dallas Cawthon b. 21 March 1878, d.  m. Susie Lawrence Britt
11. Robert Lee Cawthon b. 30 April 1874

James Buchanan Cawthon died as an infant. No death notice.

Dick R. Cawthon died as an infant. No death notice or obituary.

Susan Alice Cawthon seems to have died young. No death notice or obituary.

Leona Gray (Cawthon) Chapman died in Mt. Pleasant, Titus County, Texas in 1886. No death notice or obituary has been found.

Randolph M. Cawthon died on 24 June 1891 in Arkansas. No death notice or obituary.

Mary Charlotte (Cawthon) Chapman died in Mt. Pleasant, Texas on 3 March 1918 of the measles. No death notice or obituary.

Willie Porter Cawthon died 12 October 1904 in Wylie, Texas. No obituary. His death in Wylie, Texas, however, made the headlines in McKinney and Dallas, Texas. The following is a news item. More detailed articles ran in the McKinney newspaper. No obituary has been found.

Note that Will Cawthon's surname has been misspelled as Cochran. 

Rosa (Cawthon) Watson died on 11 February 1933 in Mt. Vernon, Franklin County, Texas. No death notice or obituary has been found. 

Robert Lee Cawthon died on 25 November 1937 in Spokane, Washington. No death or obituary has been found. However, a news item about his accidental death appeared in the newspaper. 

Charlie Dallas Cawthon died on 19 April 1952 in Dallas, Texas.

Note that this obituary does not mention Charlie Cawthon's parents, but does name his sole surviving brother, Jesse F. Cawthon, of Clarksville, Texas.

Jesse Franklin Cawthon died on 15 January 1961 in Clarksville, Red River County, Texas.

While Jesse Cawthon's only immediate survivor was his wife Clara (Follet) Cawthon, two of his pallbearers were relatives. W.S. Chapman was his nephew, and DeWitt Lennon was W.S. Chapman's son-in-law. Note that this obituary names his parents as Rutherford and Caren Mason Cawthon.