TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - OBITUARIES - Reece Crockett Hager, 21 Mar 1950 ============================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the Virginia USGenWeb Archives by: Karen EAGLE Moman arizonaeagle@qwest.net ============================================================================ "Clinch Valley News" Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA Friday, March 24, 1950 DEATHS (Typed as written) REECE CROCKETT HAGER REECE CROCKETT HAGER, 50, son of MRS. BETTY HAGER, of the Cove. Died at his home Tuesday, March 21st. He is survived by his mother, with whom he made his home, and five sisters: MRS. R. B. MATTENY, of Grundy. Va. MRS. HENRY LAMBERT, of Tazewell MRS. JOHN BROWN, of Doran MRS. VIOLA PATRICK, of Bluefield, W. Va. MRS. MACK MC DONALD, of Oakland, Cal.: and two brothers: WALTER, of Tazewell JOHN, of Richlands Funeral services were conducted Thursday at 2:30 from the home by REV. W. E. MUSTARD. Burial was in the Thompson cemetery in the Cove. [Reece Hager’s tombstone listed his birthdate as b. 1901. However, the 1900 Tazewell Co VA Census listed the birth date as Mar 1899, we all know how the census can be trusted! I also find that he is buried in the Col. Henry Bowen Cemetery at Maiden Springs. Perhaps the name of the cemetery changed? The cemetery list also documents his father , John Hager (father from1900 Census) as b. 1861, d. 190 (6?). (1900 Census listed birth as Mar. 1862, his mother Elizabeth E. ‘Betty’, b. 1864, d. 1961. (1900 Census listed her birth as June 1872]. ADDED DATA; 1900 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS # 313, Maiden Spring Dist. JOHN HAGER, 38, b. Mar 1862, in VA (All in home b. VA), farm Labor, married 14 years …..Elizabeth, 27, b. June 1872, wife, had had 7 children with 6 alive in 1900* …..Maggie E., 12, b. Aug 1887, dau …..Salina E., 10, b. Oct 1889, dau …..Nora B., 7, b. Sept 1892, dau …..Walker, 3, b. Mar 1897, son …..Reece C., 1, b. Mar 1899, son REBECCA J. MAXWELL, 37, b. Sept 1862, Sister-in-law, had had 4 children …..Willie, 10, b. Apr 1890, Nephew …..Henry, 5, b. Mar 1895, Nephew * A son Walter Hager, age 1 year, 1 month died May 1 1894 at the Cove, Tazewell Co., VA., of Flux,, s/o Jno & Elizabeth Hager. Karen EAGLE Moman arizonaeagle@qwest.net April 2002