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.

Bivens, Tabitha J. Whitman 152261

Birth: 08/24/1866 Death: 01/18/1920 Marriage:

Cemetery: See Notes

Record Source: Texas Death Certificate, Researcher-Submitted Info

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. (12/17/2025)

Notes

THE DAILY DINNER HORN, (Paris, Texas) 20 Jan 1920: "Fatally Ill While Visiting At Ambia- Mrs. A. A. Bivins, the wife of a farmer from near Houston, died Sunday morning at St. Joseph’s Infirmary from pneumonia. The body was turned over to Emberson and Brown and was forwarded in the afternoon to Clarksville, where the funeral was held yesterday. Her husband had recently bought a farm near Detroit, and while they were on their way to make their home she stopped at Ambia to visit her daughter, Mrs. W. A. Brown, whose husband is principal of the school there. Shortly after reaching Ambia she was taken sick and brought to the infirmary. She was born and reared in Red River County near Clarksville and was sixty-two years old. She is survived by her husband and ten children as follows, Mrs. H. J. Buchanan of Blossom, Mrs. David Patton of Clarksville, Mrs. Dan Stiles of Haworth, Ok., Mrs. Lee Jackson and Mrs. Jud Maldin of Clarksville, Mrs. W. A.Brown of Ambia, James Atha and Willie Bivins and Miss Viola Bivins. Besides her own family, she leaves several brothers and sisters."

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: T J Bivins
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 18 Jan 1920
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 24 Aug 1866
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: J E Whitman
Mother’s Name: Margrite Box
Certificate Number: 2448
GS Film number: 2073707
Digital Folder Number: 005145847
Image Number: 02055
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3DD-189 : 5 December 2014), T J Bivins, 18 Jan 1920; citing certificate number 2448, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,073,707.

Tabitha J. Bivins is enumerated with husband Albert A. and children Ather and Viola: “United States Census, 1920,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC9F-JR1 : accessed 22 February 2017), Tabitha J Bivins in household of Albert A Bivins, Justice Precinct 4, Red River, Texas, United States; citing ED 152, sheet 15A, line 23, family 297, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1841; FHL microfilm 1,821,841.

The Death and Cemetery Records have reached 117698 records!!
Thanks to everyone who helped us reach this number.

Lamar County, Texas Home Page