| Bills, William A. 152155 |
| Birth: 07/11/1867 Death: 12/23/1937 Marriage: |
| Cemetery: Evergreen (14-09-03) |
| Record Source: Texas Death Certificate, The Paris News |
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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, Friday, December 24, 1937, p. 1, 7: “[photo W. A. Bills]. W. A. BILLS DIES AFTER BEING STRUCK. Negro Held After Auto Accident; Charges Likely To Be Filed. W. A. Bills, 70, died Friday morning at the Sanitarium of Paris from injuries received when struck by an automobile on Lamar avenue Thursday night, and Joe Mayweather, Negro who was driving the car, was held pending filing of hit and run charges. County Attorney M. D. Emerson said Friday he had been told Mayweather failed to stop and render aid after the car he was driving struck Mr. Bills as he crossed Lamar avenue to the City Steam laundry, of which he was proprietor. The attorney’s office was investigating the accident from eye-witnesses before specific charges were to be file. Mr. Bills was hit about 8:20 o’clock Thursday night, and the Negro was arrested about an hour later by R. N. Baker and H. R. Marks, city officers. Mr. Bills, taken to the Sanitarium of Paris, died at 7:15 o’clock Friday morning. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Bills residence, 371 Lamar avenue, conducted by the Rev. Charles Dickey of Central Presbyterian church, assisted by Oscar Smith, minister of Lamar Avenue Church of Christ. Burial will be made at Evergreen cemetery, Manton-Fry funeral home having charge. Surviving are three children, Mrs. Joel K. Shirley, William Lloyd Bills and Miss Lucille Bills, and two grandsons, all of Paris, and two brothers, George Bills, also of Paris, and John Bills of Los Angeles, Calif. His wife, the former Miss Mary Sue Whitworth, died several years ago. Born in Henderson Ky., January 11, 1887, son of James M. and Susan Patton Bills, he came to Lamar county in 1876, with his parents who settled in Biardstown. As a youth, he worked in the Texas and Pacific railway shops at Bonham for the Arctic Ice company in Paris, and a boiler-room foreman for an oil mill in Little Rock, Ark. Honored as the oldest member of the Texas Laundrymen’s association which he attended the past year with his son-in-law, he knew the laundry business from the ground up, He started work here as a washroom man for the City Steam Laundry, and it took him only two months to decide to buy the business. this accomplished, the frame building soon gave way to a modern brick plant on which improvements were made from time to time. He later established laundries in Mineral Wells and Hugo, Okla. while he was devoted to his business, he found time to serve as a member of many civic groups, though he never held or sought offices in them. His chief public service aside from this was as alderman for two years, from First Ward. He was a member of the board of directors of the State Laundrymen’s association; of the local chamber of commerce, and a member of the Rotary club, Paris Golf club and other local organizations. The had been a member of the Central Presbyterian church official board, and was generous in his donations to charity. His fraternal connections were with the Knight of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World.” Information from Texas Death Certificate: |