| Bays, Lucy Brooks 149464 |
| Birth: 10/16/1838 Death: 11/27/1922 Marriage: 07/09/1862 |
| Cemetery: See Notes |
| Record Source: Texas Death Certificate |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025) |
| Notes Information from Texas Death Certificate: Name: Lucy Bays Event Type: Death Event Date: 27 Nov 1922 Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States Gender: Female Marital Status: Widowed Birth Date: 16 Oct 1838 Birthplace: Tennessee Father's Name: William Williams Mother's Name: Don't Know Place of Burial: Elm Cemetery Certificate Number: 32152 GS Film number: 2074636 Digital Folder Number: 005145600 Image Number: 02971 Citing this Record: "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K3CX-P9J : accessed 10 May 2014), Lucy Bays, 27 Nov 1922; citing certificate number 32152, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2074636. Lucy Brooks Bays received a Texas Confederate Pension #24963 for service of her husband William Alexander Bays. An abstract of the pension shows: she lived at Deport, filed 20 Nov 1913, approved 1 Mar 1914, he died 9 Feb 1902 in Raines Co., TX, they married 9 Jul 1862 (or 3rd) in Grant Co., AR, she was age 73, born in Bedford Co., TN, lived in Texas since 1890, lived in Deport 'about a year or longer', he served from 9 Jul 1861 to close of war in Co. A, 11th Infantry (no state). L. Bays and D. W. Boles of Lamar Co. swore they knew her on 29 Sep 1913. B. F. Hill age 72 of Idabell, OK testified he was in the 11th AR Infantry Co. A, and he served with him. Mortuary Warrant of Lucy Bays in file, taken out by L. Bays, son, she died 27 Nov 1922 in Reno, Lamar Co., Edgar Wilson was undertaker and sent body to Elm Cemetery in Raines County, TX. L. B. Palmer certified she died of cerebral hemorrhage. In file is guardianship papers of Lucy were she was declared of unsound mind on 17 Jul 1922. |