1930 Census of Greenville, Butler Co AL
Name                   	AgeJ. E. Hathcock        	40
Ima Hathcock       	42
Elizabeth Hathcock	17
Edward Hathcock	14
Lula Hathcock      	12
Sara Hathcock      	10
1940 Census of Dothan, Houston Co AL
Name                  	AgeJohn E Hathcock	50
Ilma Hathcock      	52
Sarah Hathcock 	20
J. E. Hathcock Rites In Dothan Last Sunday
2463 Funeral services for John Edward Hathcock, founder and president of Hathcock Lumber Co., of Dothan, who died early Saturday morning, were held at 3:00 p. m., Sunday at the First Methodist Church, Dothan. He would have been 74 that day. 
A native of Lincoln County, Tenn., Mr. Hathcock had been in the lumber business 55 years. For 25 years he was associated with the W. T. Smith Lumber Co., of Greenville and Chapman. He later joined a firm in Blakely, Ga., then went to Dothan to start his own. business in 1938. 
A member of the First Methodist Church, Mr. Hathcock had been a Steward. He was a Mason and a Shriner. 
Mr. Hathcock served as mayor of Chapman; member of the Greenville City Council and member of the Butler County Board of Education while a citizen of Butler county. He came to Alabama affiliated with the Gulf Red Cedar Co., but went with W. T. Smith Lumber Co., soon afterwards. 
The funeral was conducted by Dr. Wilbur Walton and the Rev. Thomas Sowell. Burial in Memory Hill Cemetery with Johnson Funeral Home directing. 
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. lima Thompson Hathcock, Dothan; a son, B. E. Hathcock, Dothan; three daughters, Mrs. Claud Blackwell, Greenville; Mrs. Lula Hall and Mrs. Robert B. McCarty, of Dothan; a brother, A. S. Hathcock, of Nashville, Tenn.; 12 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.