Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Boyd, Rhue Croxton 153543

Birth: 11/17/1886 Death: 12/09/1939 Marriage: 02/01/1912

Cemetery: Evergreen (C2-18-01)

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)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, Dec. 10, 1939: “Mrs. Arthur J. Boyd Dies - Funeral Service To Be Held Sunday Afternoon At Episcopal Church - Mrs. Rhue Croxton Boyd, wife of Dr. Arthur J. Boyd of 99 South Church Street, died at 2:25 o’clock Saturday morning at her home. She had been in ill health several months. The funeral service will be held at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Church of the Holy Cross, Episcopal, conducted by the Rev. Norman R. Alter, the rector. Interment will be made at Evergreen cemetery, Manton-Fry Funeral Home having charge, and the pallbearers are to be S. W. Wilbor, R. H. Blyth, M. F. Wise, T. M. Scott, John Scarborough, Dr. O. R. O’Neill, Maclin Atkinson and H. H. McClanahan. Mrs. Boyd was born at Rockwall and was married to Dr. Boyd at Nocona on February 1, 1912. They lived first in San Angelo and moved to Paris in 1922, having resided here ever since. She had been active in social circles and in the work of the Episcopal Church. Surviving besides her husband are her mother, Mrs. A. A. Croxton of Nocona; a sister, Mrs. W. H. Hawley of Denton, and two brothers, P. A. Croxton of Dallas and H. D. Croxton of Nocona.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Rhue Croxten Boyd
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 09 Dec 1939
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 07 Nov 1886
Birthplace: Rockwall, Texas
Father's Name: Arthur A Croxten
Mother's Name: Nannie Calloway
Certificate Number: 56357
GS Film number: 2118412
Digital Folder Number: 005144954
Image Number: 02744
Citing this Record: "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3MJ-2KV : 13 March 2018), Nannie Calloway in entry for Rhue Croxten Boyd, 09 Dec 1939; citing certificate number 56357, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,118,412.

On the same stone with her husband Dr. Arthur J. Boyd. Tombstone is inscribed only “1939.” No other dates.

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