When a boy he moved with his parents to Missouri. In about 1891 he moved to Oklahoma, where he has since made his home. On April 28, 1872, he was married to Agnes Huston. To this union were born 4 sons and 5 daughters, of whom the sons and one daughter survive their father. Mrs. Dawkins died in 1904.
Mr. Dawkins was one of the staunch, upright citizens of the community. He was thoroughly religious and always stood for those principles that made for the best in everything. In the passing of the man, the neighborhood looses a strong support. He will be missed. Funeral services were conducted in the afternoon at the home in the presence of a large company of neighbors. The Rev. Wm. D. Cater was the officiating minister. Burial was made in the Prague Cemetery.
It looks like that in the same paper, there were community columns written of news peculiar to their communities. The Bellmont Items column reads: Mr. Dawkins, a former resident of Belmont, and who has been a helpless invalid for over a year, died at the home of his son, Clarence Dawkins, Saturday night, and was laid to rest in Prague cemetery Sunday afternoon.
The newspaper bits of information that I found on the same page as the above obits are so interesting and speaks of the time. It definitely was a gentler time or so it seems.
It was ironic that my hubby also received memories today in the way of baby and childhood photos. He only had one picture of him when he was about 3 years old so these baby pictures are a delight.
Stay tuned, because tomorrow I am going to post some of the "goings on" of Prague in 1923. You will be surprised how many old names pop up.
Thank you Aunt Norma.
So glad you decided to keep it up, think I got this comment thing down.
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