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“The story of the Hawthorn Family isn’t easy to piece together, “stated Leila B. LaGrone in her article and research published September 10, 1989. The Hawthorns have been a longtime business family in Carthage, very limited facts have gone into print. Into that Hawthorn story is woven other well-known families in this county, such as Page, Morrison, Neal, Gholston and more. The 1860 Census of Panola County shows that the Thomas Hawthorn Family arrived in Panola County, from Alabama, not long before 1860, for they had a one-year-old son, Preston, born in Alabama before they came to Texas. (To be continued...)