Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Barnes, James Nathan 150336

Birth: 07/23/1900 Death: 10/16/1958 Marriage:

Cemetery: Highland (11 FRT SSE)

Record Source: 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. (12/17/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, October 17, 1958, p. 2: “James N. Barnes. Paris News Service DEPORT -- Funeral of James Nason Barnes, Biardstown, who died at his home Thursday at 6 p.m. will be held at Grant Funeral Home here, Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock. The Rev. Lee Smith, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church at Biardstown, and the Rev. C. G. Renfro, pastor of the Deport Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be made in Highland Cemetery. Pallbearers will be J. A. Sparks, Delbert Norman, Robert McKinney, Henry Pickering, Sam Ingram and Dennis Bolton. Mr. Barnes, son of James H. and Ollie Rainwater Barnes, was born July 9, 1900, in Aily, Ark. He moved to Lamar County in 1930 and had lived at Biardstown for four years. He is survived by his wife and these children: James Barnes, Paris; Hoyt Barnes, Shady Grove; Miss Mary Fay Barnes, Abilene; Donald R. Barnes, Paris; Bobby Barnes, Biardstown, and Mrs. Sue King, Delmar; his father, James H. Barnes, Milton; these brothers and sisters, Pat Barnes and Aubrey Barnes, Milton; R. F. Barnes, Bisbee, Ariz.; and a sister, Mrs. Imogene Staggers, Compton, Calif.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: James Nathan Barnes
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 16 Oct 1958
Event Place: Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 09 Jul 1899
Birthplace: Arkansas
Father’s Name: James H Barnes
Mother’s Name: Ollie Rainwater
Certificate Number: 57740
GS Film number: 2115593
Digital Folder Number: 005145587
Image Number: 01279
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3C4-GHJ : 13 March 2018), Ollie Rainwater in entry for James Nathan Barnes, 16 Oct 1958; citing certificate number 57740, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,115,593.

Buried near Emma Mae Barnes. Married Emma Rook. See record of daughter Mary Fay Barnes.

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