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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)
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Notes
From Rodgers & Wade Furniture Co. Funeral Records in possession of Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home; Book #9; p. 535: Service #315; Infant, W. C. Boyd; charge to W. C. Boyd; ordered by J. D. Boyd; date of funeral, 5 Dec 1917; place of death, residence N. Lavaca St.; services at cemetery; Clergyman, Reese; Physician, Fitzpatrick; age 3 years 7 months 12 days; interment at Evergreen, Section 1; casket size 3/6 $37.50; hearse $10.00; lot $25.00; Total $72.50.
THE PARIS NEWS, Thursday, December 6, 1917, Pg. 2: “Robert Lloyd, the 3 1/2-year-old son of W. C. Lloyd [sic], who lives on North Twenty-Fourth street, died Tuesday night of pneumonia. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. Luther Rees and B. E. Wallace at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon and the burial was at Evergreen cemetery.”
Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Loyd Robert Boyd
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 04 Dec 1917
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 17 Oct 1913
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: W C Boyd
Mother’s Name: Vinea Damali
Certificate Number: 35637
GS Film number: 2052018
Digital Folder Number: 005145375
Image Number: 02874
Citing this Record
“Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3W7-3M5 : 13 March 2018), Vinea Damali in entry for Loyd Robert Boyd, 04 Dec 1917; citing certificate number 35637, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,052,018.
Information from Samantha Jane (Boyd) Biba, dmbiba@entouch.net, 04/01/2014: The infant’s name was “Lloyd Boyd” per my grandfather’s handwriting on the back of his photo. He died in the influenza epidemic of the time.
Sexton records of Evergreen have no indication of this burial.
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