The grave marker of Maud Hawkins, who died at age 31 in 1919 after a battle with tuberculosis. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)

Published as it appeared on March 31, 1919, in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Page 3, Column 5.

Victim of Tuberculosis — Mrs. Maude Anna Hawkins, wife of F.L. Hawkins, of the Beaver Creek vicinity, died Saturday afternoon at the home of her aunt, Mrs. George Bayne three miles west of Corvallis, following an illness from tuberculosis extending over several months. The funeral was held this afternoon at 2 o’clock from Bovee’s funeral parlors, Rev. J. Cronenberger officiating, and burial was in Newton cemetery. Mrs. Hawkins was aged 31 years and is survived by her husband and four children, one little daughter being with an aunt in eastern Oregon, her mother, Mrs. M.J. Hamar, of Salem, and two brothers, D. Bruce Hamar and Clyde C. Hamar, of Portland. The mother is ill and was unable to be present at the funeral this afternoon.

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Editor’s note: The grave marker and Mrs. Hawkins’s death certificate confirms the spelling of her first name as Maud.