Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Burks, J. Will 155718

Birth: 05/06/1861 Death: 12/13/1937 Marriage:

Cemetery: Evergreen (28-31-03)

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)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, Tuesday, December 14, 1937, p. 3: “J. W. BURKS. Death of J. W. Burks, 76, occurred Monday afternoon at his home, 388 West Kaufman street, where he had been ill. The Rev. P. F. Herndon will conduct the funeral service Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Emberson-Brown-Roden funeral chapel, and burial will be made at Evergreen cemetery. Harry Walker, Sid Parrot, J. D. Cheatham, Clyde Crumley, Roy Hodges and E. F. Harrell will be pallbearers. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Anna Burks, four children, Mrs. Mildred Duke, Houston; Mrs. Roy L. Beard, St. Louis; Claude and Ernest Burks of Paris; a brother, Bob Burks of Broadway and a sister, Mrs. George Gantt of Klondike.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: J W Burks
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 13 Dec 1937
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 03 May 1861
Birthplace: Tennessee
Father’s Name:
Mother’s Name:
Certificate Number: 61666
GS Film number: 2117400
Digital Folder Number: 005144921
Image Number: 00387
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3M9-LTY : 5 December 2014), J W Burks, 13 Dec 1937; citing certificate number 61666, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,117,400.

On the same stone with Anna M. Burks.

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