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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)

THE PARIS NEWS, June 15, 1987: "James Moses Black, 72, of Brookston, died Sunday, June 14, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paris.  Services wll be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, at the Gene Roden's Sons Funeral Home chapel. Burial will be at Meadowbrook Cemetery with the Rev. Joe Florence officiating.  Family and Friends will be received from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Monday, June 15, at the chapel.  He was born Aug. 22, 1915, in Blossom, the son of James M. Black and Lorayne Rives Black.  He married Mattie Elizabeth Brown on Oct.17, 1936.  He was an electrician for Babcock and Wilcox, a president of the West Lamar School Board and secretary of the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association.  He was a member of the Oak Park United Methodist Church.  Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Patricia Nell Mahon of Sumner and Alice Ann Black of San Francisco, Calif.; four sons, James Melvin Black of Duncanville, John R. Black of Toccoa, Ga., William G. Black of Paris and Michael Joe Black of Powderly; one sister, Nell Black of San Antonio; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren."

From the record journal of Meadowbrook Cemetery; son of James M. & Lorayne Rives Black. Born in Blossom, died in Lamar County, TX.