Wilson Daily Times, 12 August 1921.

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Richard Hagans married Ann Faithful 1 May 1849 in Edgecombe County. Lemon S. Dunn was bondsman, and John Norfleet, witness.

In the 1860 census of Edgecombe County: Richard Hagans, 33, wife Alley, 31, and children Lawrence, 10, Laura, 8, Margaret, 6, Richard, 5, Neely, 3, and Charles Hagans, 3 months.

The family is not found in the 1870 census.

On 30 December 1874, Lawrence Hagan, 25, married Mollie Pender, 20, at the residence of William Woodard in Wilson County. Witnesses were R. Hagan, Dobson Powell and Anderson White.

In the 1880 census of Saratoga township, Wilson County: Laurence Hagans, 30, wife Mary, 24, and children James, 6, and Elizabeth, 3. Next door, Lawrence’s father Richard Hagans, 52, mother Alley, 51, and brothers Charley, 20, Julus, 16, Bisco, 14, Thomas, 11, and Joe, 1.

In the 1900 census of Gardners township, Wilson County: farmer Larnce Haggan, 49, wife Etha, 44, and children Joe, 21, Augustus, 19, Oscar, 18, Charlie, 16, Annie, 13, Connie, 10, Lena, 8, Mollie, 7, William L., 4, Minnie, 3, and Pattie, 1, and Lawrence’s widowed mother Alice, 70.

In the 1910 census of Gardners township, Wilson County: farmer Laurence Hagans, 60, wife Mary, 56, and children Laurence Jr., 16, Minnie, 4, and Pattie, 12. [N.B. Pattie Hagans married Julius F. Freeman Jr. in 1918 in Pulaski, Arkansas.]

In the 1920 census of Gardners township, Wilson County: Laurence Haggans, 70; wife Mary; 62; daughter Minnie, 23, and her children Lessie, 10, Mary, 8, Alliet, 6, and Rensie Comb, 4; son Joe Haggans, 35; son-in-law William Pearce, 40, daughter Mollie, 28, and their children Samuel, 7, Ernestine, 4, Wood Roe, 3, and Cleveland, 18 months; grandson Donnie Haggans, 4; and adopted children Jim, 14, Dave, 20, and Ruth Hinton, 20.

Mary Hagans died 30 July 1921 in Wilson township, Wilson County. Her death certificate reports that she was 64 years old and was born in Tarboro to David and Phillis Pender. Her and her husband Lawrence Hagans farmed for Kerby Woodard.

Five months later, on 14 December 1921, Lawrence Hagans, 69, of Gardners township, son of Richard and Allie Hagans, married Maggie Slaughter, 56, of Ahoskie, at Maggie’s home in Toisnot township.

Lawrence Hagans, 75, died 9 April 1926 in Wilson township. His death certificate reports that he was working as a tenant farmer for W.H. Woodard and had been born in  Edgecombe County.

Lawrence and Mary Gray Pender Hagans.

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