Family Tree
Three generations around John Martin
Sibling
James L Cawthon
1858 — 1859
Sibling
William Perry Cawthon
1860 — 1880
Sibling
Nancy J Cawthon
1862 — 1942
Sibling
David W Cawthon
1864 — 1929
Sibling
Joseph C Cawthon
1866 — 1926
Sibling
Thomas W Cawthon
b. 1868
Sibling
Wiley Newton Cawthon
1870 — 1944
Sibling
Ada "Addie" E Cawthon
1872 — 1944
Sibling
Alick E Cawthon
1875 — 1952
Sibling
Scott E Cawthon
1878 — 1943
Sibling
Alice B Cawthon
b. 1882
This record
John Martin Cawthon
1857 — 1923
Child
Ruhamie Magdeline "Hamie" Cawthon
1881 — 1958
Child
Della Lavina Cawthon
b. 1883
Child
Elvira Josephine "Josie" Cawthon
1884 — 1943
Child
James Alfred Cawthon
1886 — 1974
Child
Clyde Vernon Cawthon
1889 — 1972
Child
Leonard Dabney Cawthon
1891 — 1976
Child
Nellie Esther Cawthon
1893 — 1980
Child
Moses Edward Cawthon
b. 1895
Child
Dora Minerva Cawthon
1897 — 1989
Child
Mamie Lillian* Cawthon
1901 — 1963
Child
Delta Mae "Delt" Cawthon
1903 — 1995
Child
John Calvin Cawthon
1906 — 1931
Vital Events
Dates and Places
- Born28 FEB 1857 · Adair, Iowa, USA
- Died14 JAN 1923 · Washington Co, AR
- BuriedNorwood Cem, Washington Co, AR
- SexMale
Notes
Research Notes
Delta Mae (Cawthon) Harden remembered places her parents lived while she was a child. She reminisced about the farms of Old Lease, Johnson Switch [now Johnson], Valley Side Farm in Springdale Twp, Spring Valley Farm, and in Siloam Springs, AR.
On the 1900 AR census, John Martin Cawthon is shown to be in Prairie Twp, AR.
Delta especially remembered the Spring Valley Farm, with its big fruit orchards. Her father would but a run-down farm and revitalize it. She remembers the children all crawling on their bellies to cut the brush under the neglected fruit trees. Soon the fruit trees would bear much under John Martin's careful expertise. They lived at Spring Valley Farm only one year. Her father lost the farm and moved to Siloam Springs.
Dabney Leonard, also known as Leo, during the War, in which he was serving overseas, would send home his paychecks in order to help support his father and the farm effort.
John Martin Cawthon even cashed in his insurance policy in an effort to save the loss of the farm. At the end of Leo's service time, he purchased the family farm from his father. A well deserved privilege. [s.9]
John Martin was blind in one eye, and had a severly cut ear from a mining accident in KY [s.9].
He was baptized 1906 at Shady Grove Baptist Church of Christ [s.23].
The land he farmed is now the Northwest Arkansas Mall [s.22].