Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bledsoe, Mattie Shope 152669

Birth: 08/19/1868 Death: 06/22/1938 Marriage:

Cemetery: Forest Hill (NORTHWEST)

Record Source: Texas Death Certificate, The Paris News

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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. (12/15/2025)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, Wednesday, June 22, 1938, p. 2: “DEATH CALLS MRS. MATTIE BLEDSOE. Mrs. Mattie Bledsoe of 302 Thirtieth street, died 3:25 o’clock Wednesday at her home after a short illness. She was 69 years old. The funeral service was arranged for 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at Emberson-Brown-Roden funeral chapel, conducted by the Rev. Forrest E. Johnson of Ramseur Baptist tabernacle, with interment at Forest Hill cemetery, north of Petty. Roy, Tom and Ed Shope of Honey Grove; Dewey Robinson, Mose Bledsoe and Leon Steelman were named pallbearers. Surviving are three children, Mrs. Edmond Tigert, Mrs. G. H. Maness and W. C. Bledsoe, all of Paris, and five grandchildren.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Mattie Bledsoe
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 22 Jun 1938
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 19 Aug 1868
Birthplace: Kentucky
Father’s Name:
Mother’s Name:
Certificate Number: 28980
GS Film number: 2117749
Digital Folder Number: 005144936
Image Number: 00200
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3M4-VTW : 5 December 2014), Mattie Bledsoe, 22 Jun 1938; citing certificate number 28980, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,117,749.

On the same stone with B. N. Bledsoe. Her death date is inscribed as 23 Jun 1938.

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