PARENTS: Freeman Curtis Carawan & Mary "Annie" Midgette. They are buried in Bay Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Pamlico Co., NC; Memorial 34725694.

PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS: Freeman Eli Carawan & Martha Ann McKinney. They are buried in Bay Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Pamlico Co., NC; Memorial 74552628.

PATERNAL GR-GRANDPARENTS: Richard Carawan & Rosetta Wise.
MATERNAL GR-GRANDPARENTS: Albert McKinney & Eleanor Jarvis.


1930 U.S. Census for Twp 3, Pamlico Co., NC:
Freeman C Carawan Head M 34 North Carolina
Annie M Carawan Wife F 24 North Carolina
Curtis L Carawan Son M 5 North Carolina
Troy R Carawan Son M 3 North Carolina
Louie L Carawan Son M 1 North Carolina


1940 U.S. Census for Twp 3, Mesic, Pamlico Co., NC:
Freeman C Carawan Head M 44 NC; farmer
Annie Carawan Wife F 34 North Carolina
Curtis Carawan Son M 15 North Carolina
Troy Carawan Son M 13 North Carolina
Lonnie Carawan Son M 10 North Carolina
Marie Carawan Dau F 7 North Carolina
Gloria Carawan Dau F 3 North Carolina
Thelma Carawan Dau F 1 North Carolina
Freeman E Carawan Father M 74 NC



Curtis Leon Carawan m. Cora Blanche Henries 2 December 1944, New Bern, Craven Co., NC. Her parents were Alvin Henries & Mary Henries. All parties reside in Lowland, Pamlico Co., NC.


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Curtis Leon Carawan, 74, of New Bern, formerly of Pamlico County, died Friday, January 8, 2009 at Craven Regional Medical Center. Graveside service was Sunday, January 10, 2 p.m. at Carawan Cemetery in Lowland with the Rev. Kenneth Dixon officiating.

Survivors include sons, Richard Leon Carawan of Warsaw and Benjamin Allen Carawan of Bridgeton; daughters, Phyllis Rowe of Bayboro and Sharon Anderson of Burlington; brother Billy Ray Carawan of New Bern; sisters, Gloria Griggs of Newport, Marie Henries of Alliance, Thelma Sperling of New Bern and Juanita Taylor of Cape Carteret; 14 grandchildren; and 30 great-grandchildren.

(Obit published in the New Bern, NC "Sun Journal" in Jan. 1999.)