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Mattie Hazeleen Burton Grimes

Hazeleen Grimes

On the banks of Reelfoot Lake, Feb. 28, 1933, Mattie Hazeleen Burton was born in a one-bedroom cabin to Isaac Wicks Tidwell Burton “Tid” and Ola Myrtle (Edwards) Burton. She was the youngest of seven children, Thelma, Jess Willard “Billy,” Josephine “Josie,” Zella, Ethyl, Frank Harold and Hazeleen. Hazeleen, or “Hazy” as she said some…

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