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Maude <I>Justice</I> Hatfield

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Maude Justice Hatfield

Birth
Justice, Mingo County, West Virginia, USA
Death
1920 (aged 34–35)
Gilbert, Mingo County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Gilbert, Mingo County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Wife of Howard Hatfield, and mother of Frank, Faye, and Hazel Hatfield.

Maude's grave stone shows her death date as 1918, the year of the bad flu epidemic. But Maude was on the 1920 census. There was another bad flu epidemic in the Gilbert area in early 1920. Others who died of the 1920 flu were included in the 1920 census, which was taken in January. Joseph Browning's grave stone also says he died in 1918, but he actually died in March 1920. Maude is included on a triple stone with Howard and his second Allie, so the stone was probably made some years after Maude died. The family apparently remembered that Maude had died in the flu epidemic, and they had it in their minds that it was during the well-known flu epidemic of 1918. It's more likely that she died a short time after that, during the flu epidemic that went through their area in 1920.

Maude was the daughter of George W. Justice and Levicy Perry. On the census as daughter Elza Maude. When their son (Maude's brother) Will H. Justice died in 1926 at age 28 from a lacerated wound in his neck caused by a piece of steel which flew from a stone drill, the person who gave the information on the death certificate was Howard Hatfield (Will was Howard's brother-in-law). Marriage certificate documented Maude's parents as George and Vicie Justice.

1920 Mingo Co census, p 114-01A, #2:
HATFIELD, Howard, 46, Blacksmith
Maud, wife, 33
Frank, son, 8
Fay, dau, 6
Hazel, dau, 2-5/12.
Wife of Howard Hatfield, and mother of Frank, Faye, and Hazel Hatfield.

Maude's grave stone shows her death date as 1918, the year of the bad flu epidemic. But Maude was on the 1920 census. There was another bad flu epidemic in the Gilbert area in early 1920. Others who died of the 1920 flu were included in the 1920 census, which was taken in January. Joseph Browning's grave stone also says he died in 1918, but he actually died in March 1920. Maude is included on a triple stone with Howard and his second Allie, so the stone was probably made some years after Maude died. The family apparently remembered that Maude had died in the flu epidemic, and they had it in their minds that it was during the well-known flu epidemic of 1918. It's more likely that she died a short time after that, during the flu epidemic that went through their area in 1920.

Maude was the daughter of George W. Justice and Levicy Perry. On the census as daughter Elza Maude. When their son (Maude's brother) Will H. Justice died in 1926 at age 28 from a lacerated wound in his neck caused by a piece of steel which flew from a stone drill, the person who gave the information on the death certificate was Howard Hatfield (Will was Howard's brother-in-law). Marriage certificate documented Maude's parents as George and Vicie Justice.

1920 Mingo Co census, p 114-01A, #2:
HATFIELD, Howard, 46, Blacksmith
Maud, wife, 33
Frank, son, 8
Fay, dau, 6
Hazel, dau, 2-5/12.


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