This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WCC.2ACE/4253 Message Board Post: I AM NEEDING HELP IN FINDING A DEATH OF MY G GRANDFATHER WILLIAM J. HAWKINS. HE WAS FROM MASON COUNTY, WV. BUT HAD SOME CHILDREN WHO LIVED IN JACKSON COUNTY THERE. HER NAME WAS ARTHA HAWKINS THORNTON SHE WAS MARRIED TO ORVILLE THORNTON. WILLIAM J. HAWKINS LIVED AT GUNVILLE RIDGE IN MASON COUNTY. THE LAST RECORD OF HIM WAS 1898 IN MASON COUNTY AT A BIRTH INDEX OF ONE OF HIS CHILDREN. THEN HIS WIFE THEN NANCY J. HILL REMARRIED IN 1903 IN MASON COUNTY. I WROTE MASON COUNTY COURT AND TRIED TO GET A DEATH RECORD OF WILLIAM J. HAWKINS BUT THEY SAID THEY HAD NO RECORDS.. THEY TOLD ME TO CHECK WITH THE SURROUNDING COUNTIES LIKE JACKSON,CABEL AND OTHERS I DID NOTHING YET IN CABEL COUNTY. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT. I THINK WILLIAM J. HAWKINS DIED BETWEEN 1898 TO 1903 BUT DON'T KNOW WHERE.... PLEASE EMAIL ME AT [email protected] IF YOU CAN HELP..... SHARON HAWKINS WILLIAMS NC