Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bennett, Josephine 151561

Birth: 06/16/1853 Death: 01/17/1947 Marriage:

Cemetery: Evergreen (N-03SE-04)

Record Source: The Paris News, 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. (12/17/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, January 19, 1947, Pg. 11: “Death of Miss Jo Bennett, 93, resident of Lamar County since she was seven years old, occurred Friday at 6;30 p.m. in Gladewater, at the home of a niece, Mrs. S. A. Slade, where she had gone recently. Robert G. Cook will conduct the funeral here at Lamar Avenue Church of Christ, where the body will be taken at 1 p.m., the funeral being set for 2 p.m. Sunday. Interment will be made in Evergreen Cemetery by Manton-Fry Funeral Home. She was born in Meridian, Miss., June 16, 1853, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Bennett. She had been a member of the Church of Christ 74 years. Surviving are eight nephews and 10 nieces, among them Mrs. G. C. Wheeler, Mrs. Thomas Lenoir and Mrs. Lee Morgan of Paris, and Mrs. Slade of Gladwater.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Josephine Bennett
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 17 Jan 1947
Event Place: Gladewater, Gregg, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 16 Jun 1853
Birthplace: Meridian, Mississippi
Father’s Name: Walter F Bennett
Mother’s Name: Adella Green
Certificate Number: 2098
GS Film number: 2218506
Digital Folder Number: 005145018
Image Number: 02195
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K39F-4XS : 5 December 2014), Josephine Bennett, 17 Jan 1947; citing certificate number 2098, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,218,506.

Buried next to H. S. Bennett.

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