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This is a record of all the cemeteries (not burials).
This is a record of burials, cemetery by cemetery.
This is a record of burials for one cemetery.
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| Brown, Marion A. 154946 |
| Birth: 05/09/1865
Death: 05/30/1931
Marriage: 00/00/1889
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| Cemetery: Evergreen (23-81-03) |
| Record Source: 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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Notes
THE PARIS NEWS, 30 May 1931: 'Marion Brown, 66 year old funeral director in Paris during 20 years, died at 11:45 o'clock on Saturday night at his residence, 212 Pine Bluff Street, following an illness. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon at the First Methodist Church. The Rev. F. M. Richardson, presiding elder in the Methodist church, will conduct the service, assisted by Dr. Harold G. Cooke, Dr. W. M. Wright, and the Rev. J. W. Beckham. The body will lie in state Sunday at the Emberson-Brown-Roden Funeral chapel. Born at Mt. Sterling, Ill., in 1865, Mr. Brown in 1875 came to Texas with his father. In 1885 he entered business with his father at Sumner where he was postmaster during twenty years and president of the school board for a similar period of time. In 1889 he was married to Miss Ella Reynolds. Entering into a partnership with John Emberson in 1891, Mr. Brown has retained the firm name until the present date. In 1911, Mr. Brown entered the furniture and funeral directing business in Paris. Mr. Emberson died in 1918 but Mr. Brown continued business under the same name until recently Gene Roden became a partner. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ella Brown; six nephews, Alford Wilson of Maxey, Elrie Wilson of Paris, Edgar Wilson of Ardmore, Okla., Edward Alfred and Marion Brown of Maxey; five nieces, Mrs. E. A. Dodson of Paris, Mrs. Jake Lassiter of Maxey, Mrs. Ennis McFatridge of Durant, Mrs. V. T. Finley of Dodsonville and Mrs. Ernest Engle of Seguin.' On the same stone with Ella Reynolds Brown. Tombstone is inscribed, 'Marion Brown.'
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