Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Brittain, John Reynolds 154502

Birth: 08/03/1858 Death: 10/06/1922 Marriage:

Cemetery: Evergreen (18-52-04)

Record Source: Texas Death Certificate, Rodgers and Wade Furniture Co., 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. (12/16/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Saturday, Oct. 7, 1922: "J. R Brittain, a well known traveling salesman out of Paris, died at an early hour yesterday morning at a hospital in San Angelo, after an illness of about ten days. He was taken sick while on the road, stricken with carbuncles and his death was due to complications. The remains will be brought back home for burial. They are expected to arrive on the 12:55 Santa Fe train this afternoon. The funeral service will be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the family residence on Graham Street and will be conducted by Rev. P. B. Wells of the First Methodist Church. Mr. Brittain was born in Tennessee and was 64 years old. He had lived in Paris twenty-five years, during all of which time he was a traveling salesman, and he had a great many friends among the profession on account of his pleasant address and sociability. He is survived by a wife and a son, John R. Brittain, Jr., who reached his bedside a short while before he died. Besides his wife and son, he leaves several brothers and sisters." Submitted by Carol Campbell.

From Rodgers & Wade Furniture Co. Funeral Records in possession of Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home; Book #10; p.204; Service #107; charge to Estate; secured by same; funeral date 8 Oct; place of death San Antonio, TX; services at Paris residence; time 4pm; Clergyman Wells; cause of death diabetis carbinrelis?; date of death 6 Oct 1922; body shipped to Paris 1230 10/7; casket size 6/3; interment at Evergreen 18; meeting train and removal to residence $7.50; folding chairs and flower car $5.00; hearse $10.00; lining grave and box $4.40; open grave $7.00; personal services $5.00; total $38.90.

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
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Name: John Reynolds Brittain
Event Date: 06 Oct 1922
Event Place: San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas
Gender: Male
Race (Original): White
Age (Formatted): 62 years 2 months 3 days
Birth Date: 03 Aug 1860
Birthplace: Tenn.
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: J. F. Brittain
Father's Birthplace: Don't Know
Mother's Name: Unknown
Mother's Birthplace: Don't Know
Occupation: Traveling Salesman
Residence Place: San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas
Cemetery (Original):
Burial Place: Paris, Texas
Burial Date: 08 Oct 1922
GS Film number: 2074636
Digital Folder Number: 4166806
Image Number: 807
Reference ID: 30031
Collection: John Reynolds Brittain, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976"

Sexton records had Dec 1922 as interment date. On the same stone with Martha J. Brittain.

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