| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Seventh Generation6007. Thomas Aran Gragg was born in May 1891 in Watauga Co., NC. Thomas died of a hemorrhage from axillary vessels on 7 July 1920 at the age of 29 in Shulls Mill, Watauga Co., NC and was buried in the family cemetery at Shulls Mill, Watauga Co., NC on 8 July 1920.20049,20050 "Mr. Thos. Gragg Killed "On Wednesday of last week, Mr. Thomas Gragg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Finley Gragg, and a trusted employee of the Boone Fork Lumber people ever since the Company began operations in the county, met his death in a most peculiar way. He was logging, using a double-bladed axe, and when he stopped to eat his lunch at noon, he stuck the axe in the log he was cutting. After eating and resting, he lighted his pipe and returned to his work. "In attempting to step up on the log his foot slipped and he fell his full weight on the blade of the axe which buried itself in his side, death resulting before surgical aid could reach him. Interment was made near his home the following day, his kinsman, the Rev. E. M. Gragg, conducting the funeral. Deceased leaves a young wife and two small children." Thomas Aran Gragg and Elma Beatrice Coffey were married on 5 November 1912 in Watauga Co., NC.20051 They20051 appeared in the census on 6 January 1920 in Watauga Twp., Watauga Co., NC.20052 Elma Beatrice Coffey, daughter of Charles L. Coffey and Alice Amanda Holloway, was born on 10 August 1893 in Watauga Co., NC. She appeared in the census on 2 April 1930 in Watauga Twp., Watauga Co., NC.20053 Elma died in Lenoir, Caldwell Co., NC on 7 August 1988 and was buried in Mountain Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Connell Springs, Burke Co., NC in August 1988 .20054,20055 Elma was probably a Coffey, and the widow of Thomas A. Gragg at the time she married William. The 1930 Watauga Co. census lists a widow Elma Gragg, age 36, with two children; Olin D., age 16, and Christine, age 7. Thomas Aran Gragg and Elma Beatrice Coffey had the following children:
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