Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bailey, Stella Nance 149727

Birth: 04/17/1892 Death: 01/06/1934 Marriage:

Cemetery: Evergreen (24-83-03)

Record Source: Headstone, Texas Death Certificate, The Paris News

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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. (12/16/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, January 7, 1934, p. 7: “Bailey Funeral to Be Held On Monday. Funeral services for Mrs. Stella L. Bailey, 41, who died at the Sanitarium of Paris at 7:40 o’clock at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Nance, 153 South Thirtieth street. The Rev. W. M. Wright, pastor of the First Baptist church, will conduct the services. Burial will be at the Evergreen cemetery. Mrs. Bailey was the wife of W. J. Bailey and other survivors are a son, W. J. Bailey, Jr., of Paris, and four sisters, Mrs. Maud Cowan of Texarkana, Mrs. Etta Tandy of Indianapolis, Ind., Mrs. June King of Ada, Okla., and Mrs. Alite Adams of Paris. Pall bearers will be Roy Dunagan, Lowe Butler, Reagan Stallings, Biill Park, Sam Baxter and Ross Mitchell.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Stella L Bailey
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 06 Jan 1934
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 17 Apr 1892
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: A M Nance
Mother’s Name: Josie Majors
Certificate Number: 3441
GS Film number: 2115948
Digital Folder Number: 005145457
Image Number: 03608
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K344-YXL : accessed 10 April 2016), Stella L Bailey, 06 Jan 1934; citing certificate number 3441, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,115,948.

From the Casket Sales Record Book of the Carl Griffin Hardware Store in Blossom, TX; copy obtained by Sue Clarkson; published in the QUARTERLY OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTHEAST TEXAS; Paris, TX; Vol.28; Summer 1989; pp.14-17; Mrs. H.J. Bailey; address, Blossom R#2; casket purchased by H.J. Bailey of Blossom on 12 Jun 1933.

Tombstone is inscribed, "Wife of W. J. Bailey."

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