Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bailey, Sarah Elizabeth 149724

Birth: 03/02/1845 Death: 03/22/1916 Marriage:

Cemetery: Restland (CENTER SW)

Record Source: Texas Death Certificate

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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/18/2025)

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THE CLAYTON NEWS, (Clayton, N.M.), March 25, 1916: “Paris, Texas Burns - Paris, Texas,- March 22. Three persons are known dead, probably 8,000 are homeless, and Paris is mostly a smouldering ruin today after fire that swept thru the business and residence sections last night and did damage estimated at from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000. Mayor McCrustion this morning made the estimate of loss and said: ‘No survey of sufficient accuracy has been completed to enable me to announce definitely the number of homeless. The known deaths are three.’ The first casualty in the fire became known today when the body of John Straub was found in the ruins of his home. Mrs. W. J. Bailey 50 years old, died from heart failure, caused by excitement. Mrs. A. C. Poul [Paul], an aged woman whose house on South Main street was burned, is missing and is believed to have burned to death.“

The Maud Monitor (Maud, Oklahoma), Friday, March 24, 1916: "While attending to legal business in Shawnee Wednesday, Attorney S. F. Bailey of Maud received the sad news that his mother, Mrs. W. J. Bailey, expired suddenly at her home in Paris, Texas. Death was due to heart failure occasioned by the shock and excitement of the big fire which almost destroyed Paris. Mr. Bailey, wife and son, Theodore, left Wednesday to be present at the funeral."

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Mrs. W J Bailey
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 22 Mar 1916
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Father’s Name:
Mother’s Name:
Cause of Death: Apoplexy with contributory cause - Paris fire
Informant: Bruce Brothers
Certificate Number: 7476
GS Film number: 2051623
Digital Folder Number: 005145437
Image Number: 03038
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3WY-SFY : 5 December 2014), Mrs. W J Bailey, 22 Mar 1916; citing certificate number 7476, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,051,623.

Buried next to William J. Bailey.

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