Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Brownlee, May Bell 155111

Birth: 08/16/1871 Death: 09/24/1961 Marriage:

Cemetery: Evergreen (P-02NE-02)

Record Source: The Paris News, Texas Death Certificate, Headstone

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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, Monday, September 25, 1961: “Mrs. May B. Brownlee, retired business woman and former district clerk at Bonham two terms, died here Sunday at 11:45 a.m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. S. McCrummen, 1273 W. Sherman St. Neal Bozeman, Christian Science reader, will conduct the service Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Gene Roden & Sons chapel, burial to be made in Evergreen Cemetery. Born near Bonham, August 16, 1871, Mrs. Brownlee was a daughter of Stephen and Mary (Badgett) Bell. Her daughter is the only immediate survivor besides a foster granddaughter, Mrs. John A. Douglas, Fontana, Calif.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: May Bell Brownlee
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 24 Sep 1961
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 16 Aug 1871
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: Stephen Bell
Mother’s Name: Mary Baggett
Certificate Number: 59815
GS Film number: 2116855
Digital Folder Number: 005145528
Image Number: 02183
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3HZ-QVZ : 13 March 2018), Mary Baggett in entry for May Bell Brownlee, 24 Sep 1961; citing certificate number 59815, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,116,855.

Buried next to Marian B. McCrummen.

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