William Louis Hawkins

William Louis Hawkins
BIRTH 15 Mar 1900
Alabama, USA
DEATH 22 Feb 1944 (aged 43)
St. Clair County, Alabama, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Grove Cemetery
Leeds, St. Clair County, Alabama, USA
MEMORIAL ID 38891357 · View Source
MEMORIAL
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Feb. 24, 1944, The Pell City News: BOYKIN TRUITT, TWO OTHERS KILLED IN MINE ACCIDENT. Two white men and a Negro were killed in a mine accident at the number 6 mine of the Alabama Fuel and Iron Company at Acmar at about 10 o'clock Tuesday night.

Boykin Truitt, 45, mine foreman, and Louis Hawkins, about 36, and Charlie Carter, Negro miner, were trapped and crushed by the falling of a huge rock. Both Mr. Truitt and Mr. Hawkins died from internal injuries. The body of Carter had not been recovered at a late hour Wednesday afternoon.

Both men were well known in St. Clair County. Mr. Truitt was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Truitt, had lived near Eden throughout his life and was a member of the Eden Baptist Church. He was active in all church affairs. Together with Rev. Bryce Inzer, he had just recently formed an association for the care of the cemetery at Eden and Mt. Carmel. He had moved his family from Eden to White's Chapel a little more than a year ago, but kept a furnished room at his Eden home available for frequent overnight visits.

Funeral plans are pending until it is known when a son, Reeves Truitt in service with the U. S. Marines at San Diego, will arrive home.

He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Lena Reeves Truitt; 2 sons, Reeves and Johnnie Wilson; and 2 daughters, Mrs. Floyd Hodgens, Detroit, and Doris Ann; 8 brothers, Leroy and Melvin Truitt, Eden; John W. Truitt, Pell City; Euclid, Horace and Dewin Truitt, Birmingham; Clarence Truitt, Shreveport; and Otis Truitt, Acmar; and 2 sisters, Mrs. Pauline Guthrie and Mrs. Violet Ray, Birmingham.

Mr. Hawkins is survived by the widow and four children. Plans and date for his funeral will be announced by Brown-Service, Birmingham. Plans for Mr. Truitt's funeral will be announced by Kilgroe.

Gravesite Details
Married June 2, 1923 in St. Clair Co., AL

Family Members
Parents
Robert Hawkins
Robert Fletcher Hawkins
1859–1932

Martha Hawkins
Martha Jane Veasey Hawkins
1860–1931

Spouse
Cora Hawkins
Cora Irene Adkins Hawkins
1902–1996

Siblings
Alta O Hawkins
1882–1894

Annie Blocker
Annie Elizabeth Hawkins Blocker
1884–1942

Caroline Pool
Caroline Hawkins Veasey Pool
1886–1962

Mary McLaughlin
Mary Hawkins McLaughlin
1888–1965

Ollie Butler
Ollie F. Hawkins Butler
1892–1951

Abbie Fulton
Abbie J. Hawkins Fulton
1898–1980

Children
Gwendolyn Hawkins
Gwendolyn Hawkins
1924–1944

Jean Elizabeth Hawkins Chandler
1926–2006

Max Hawkins
Max Hawkins
1929–1952

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