Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

There has been an error loading a file. The webmaster has been notified.

Do a search or check index first to avoid duplicates!

If you've edited the name it will be updated. Just submit the page that comes up and the name will be updated.

This is a record of all the cemeteries (not burials).

This is a record of burials, cemetery by cemetery.

This is a record of burials for one cemetery.

Beasley, Walter S. 151134

Birth: 08/17/1893 Death: 10/10/1975 Marriage: 04/22/1922

Cemetery: Evergreen (40-09-02)

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

See Image Beasley, Walter S.
Update info

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. (12/16/2025)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, October 12, 1975, p. 10: "Walter Beasley. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel for Walter S. Beasley, 1318 Lamar, longtime Paris druggist. The Rev. Johnny Irish, associate pastor of First United Methodist Church, officiated and burial was made in Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Beasley was dead on arrival at McCuistion Medical Center at 10:30 a.m. Friday. He had been ill several weeks. A co-owner of the old Beasley-Vaughan Drug Store here, Mr. Beasley had been a druggist since the early 1920's. He began his career with the Musselman Drug Co. here and later was associated with the Corner Drug and Palace Drug Stores until he and Herman Vaughan organized Beasley- Vaughan. He retired 12 years ago. Born Aug. 17, 1893, in Cato, Ark., he was a son of W. P. and Mary (Spann) Beasley. He married the former Miss Ann Becker on April 22,1922, in Paris and they had made their home here since then. He was a member of First United Methodist Church and was an inactive member of its board. He was a graduate of Brookston High School, Paris Commercial College and Little Rock Pharmacy School. Survivors are his wife; one sister, Mrs. Scott Nobles of Sulphur, Okla. and several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers were Herman Vaughan, Jim Rives, George Lacey, Rufus Edwards, Walter Franklin and E. C. Odom.

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Walter S Beasley
Sex: Male
Age: 82
Death Date: 10 Oct 1975
Death Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Marital Status: Married
Father's Name: W P Beasley
Mother's Name: Mary Spann
Event Type: Death
Birth Date: 17 Aug 1893
Birth Year (Estimated): 1893
Birthplace: Cato, Arkansas
Record Number: 76820
GS Film Number: 2243832
Digital Folder Number: 005145735
Image Number: 02189
Citing this Record: "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K38N-G1F : 20 February 2021), Walter S Beasley, 10 Oct 1975; citing certificate number 76820, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,243,832.

Married Ann Becker.

The Death and Cemetery Records have reached 117695 records!!
Thanks to everyone who helped us reach this number.

Lamar County, Texas Home Page