Obituary

Birth: Mar. 13, 1897
Mexia
Limestone County
Texas, USA
Death: Mar. 28, 1934
Lubbock
Lubbock County
Texas, USA

His grandparents, S.S. and Rachel H.(McCrory) Rawls brought his family to Texas in 1859. His father was 2 yrs old at that time. Marion was born in Limestone Co. TX. in 1897. He and his family came to Hale Co.TX in 1915. He met his wife to be, Mattie King, there in Hale Co. They went to school at Center Plains School. Soon after they married, he was requested to join in World War I. He was stationed at Camp Travis and Camp John Wise in Bexar County, Tx near San Antonio. He was in the 95th Balloon Co.Air Service Aironautics. He was in Machine Gun School when the war ended and he never had to go to France. He was discharged 2 Jan 1919. They lived in many places. He was a farmer, a trucker, a carpenter and a butcher among other things. After the depression hit and his last farm had failed, he returned to trucking and then on a trip to Ft Worth, Tx to deliver a load of maize for David Weaver Grain Co., he had an appendicitis attack. He wanted to get home to his growing family, and on the road home his appendix ruptured and after days of suffering he died in St Mary's Hospital in Lubbock, Tx. His ninth and youngest child, a son, was born 6 months after he died. He is buried next to his wife in the Center Plains Cemetery near to the place they had met so many years ago and fallen in love.

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Parents:
T M Rawls (1857 - 1917)
Eliza Jennings Rawls (1860 - 1905)

Spouse:
Mattie Arzina King Rawls (1898 - 1979)