Wilson Daily Times, 2 March 1937.

In the 1900 census of Taylor township, Wilson County: farmer Charles Haggans, 39; wife Charity, 39; and children Martha, 18, Louis, 16, Joney, 14, Isaac, 13, Lou R., 10, and Charles, 1.

On 22 December 1909, Louis Hagans, 24, son of Charlie and Charity Hagans, married Hattie Smith, 17, daughter of Thomas and Edie Smith, in Wilson. Baptist minister Fred M. Davis performed the ceremony.

In the 1910 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: Louis Haggans, 26, servant, and wife Hattie, 17.

In 1918, John Louis Hagans registered for the World War I draft in Wilson County. Per his registration card, he was born 4 April 1884; lived on Queen Street; and worked as a farm laborer for J.G. Roney.