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Husband	Nowlin Kenneth Roaten / Clyde Edwin Knight / Isham Harris "Ike" Summars Pictures Notes
Birth	8/1/1924 Memphis TN / 2/14/1916 Starkville MS / 1923 Trenton TN
Death	1/21/1949 Memphis TN / 11/1986 Satsuma FL / 3/14/1977 Little Rock AR
Note	Nowlin committed suicide.
Father	John James Roaten (1893-1970) / Captain Luck Knight / ?
Mother	Myrtle Vivian Simpson (11/26/1898-6/17/1994) / Chevis Baty Buchanan / ?

Marriage

1947 / 7/4/1952 MS / 10/1970 TN

Wife	Martha Ann Cockrell
Birth	9/10/1924 Gurdon AR
Death	3/12/1978 Little Rock AR of breast cancer
Father	Chester Lafayette Cockrell (8/26/1890-)
Mother	Amy Evangeline Summers (9/4/1899-)

Children
1 M	Nowlin Kenneth Roaten Jr. (1948-) - children of Nowlin and Martha
2 F	Martha Lynn Roaten Terrell (8/1949-1/28/2003)
3 F	Charlotte Ann Knight Watkins (7/17/1953-) - child of Clyde and Martha