Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Barnes, James Wayne 150337

Birth: 03/16/1917 Death: 04/11/1922 Marriage:

Cemetery: Evergreen (21-23-01)

Record Source: Rodgers and Wade Furniture Co., Honey Grove Signal-Citizen, 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. (12/16/2025)

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THE BONHAM DAILY FAVORITE, April 27, 1922: “CLAIM DAMAGES FOR DEATH OF THEIR CHILD. C. B. Barnes and wife, Mrs. Elna Barnes, residing at the corner of Houston and Seventh streets, instituted suit in the Sixty-second district court yesterday against W. H. Stewart of Honey Grove for damages for causing the death of their five-year old child, Jas. W. Barnes, who was struck by an automobile on the evening of April 11 and was fatally injured. The petition charges that the defendant was going at high rate of speed at the time of the accident and that the death of their child was due to his negligence and carelessness. The plaintiffs ask for alleged actual damages in the sum of $15,000 and exemplary damages in the amount of $20,000. -- Paris News.”

The Austin American (Austin, Texas), Monday, April 17, 1922 - “HOMICIDE CHARGE AGAINST PARIS MAN IS FILED - PARIS, Texas, April 16 -- W. N. Stewart of Honey Grove, charged with negligent homicide in connection with the death of the 5-year old son of C. K. Barnes, who was run over and killed by an automobile recently, made bond today in the sum of $500.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: James Wayne Barnes
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 11 Apr 1922
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 16 Mar 1917
Birthplace: , Texas
Father’s Name: C B Barnes
Mother’s Name: Eleanor Patrick
Certificate Number: 12052
GS Film number: 2074544
Digital Folder Number: 005145595
Image Number: 02319
Citing this Record
“Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3CD-93T : 13 March 2018), Eleanor Patrick in entry for James Wayne Barnes, 11 Apr 1922; citing certificate number 12052, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,074,544.

From Rodgers and Wade Furniture Co. Funeral Records in possession of Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home, Book #10, p. 90, Service #90: Jas. Barnes, charge to C. B. Barnes, secured by same, funeral date 12 Apr, place of death Sanitarium of Paris, services at residence N. 7th St., time 4 pm, Clergyman Gorman, Physician H. R. Farris, cause of death crushed in an auto accident, date of death 11 Apr 1922 at 7 pm, single, aged 5 years, casket size 4/0, manufactured by Texarkana, interment at Evergreen 21-23, coffin price $37.50, hearse $10.00, lining grave $4.50, total $52.00.

Tombstone is inscribed with years of birth and death only. Buried near Charles B. Barnes.

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