Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Burrus, Joe Howard 156004

Birth: 07/28/1889 Death: 12/15/1958 Marriage: 00/00/1912

Cemetery: Highland (1 BACK NW)

Record Source: Headstone, 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. (12/17/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Tuesday, December 16, 1958, p. 9: “Joe H. Burrus. Paris News Service DEPORT — Joe Howard Burrus, descendant of early-day Deport settlers, died Sunday night in a hospital at Tyler after long illness. A director of YMCA camp work at Baytown 22 years, he had moved recently to Tyler when his health failed. The funeral will be held in Deport Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Methodist Church, of which his father was one of the eight charter members. The Rev. P.G. Hightower of Pickton and the pastor here, the Rev. W. E. Grisham, will officiate, Grant Funeral Home to make burial in Highland Cemetery. Born in Deport, July 28, 1889, Mr. Burrus was a son of the late J. A. and Josephine (Thompson) Burrus, his mother having been a sister of Dee Thompson for whom the town was named. He married Miss Johnnie Roden in 1912, and they had lived since at Telephone and Bonham in Fannin County, and at Baytown. His wife survives, besides two sons, Joe Howard Burrus, Jr., of Milwaukee, Wisc., and James Burrus of Alice; six grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Ina Mitchell, Natchitoches, La., and Mrs. Florence Perry Gray, Dallas, and a brother, Jack Burrus, Tyler.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Joe Howard Burrus
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 15 Dec 1958
Event Place: Tyler, Smith, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 28 Jul 1889
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: James Alfred Burrus
Mother’s Name: Josephine Thompson
Certificate Number: 71354
GS Film number: 2115624
Digital Folder Number: 005145573
Image Number: 01301
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3CM-BVB : 13 March 2018), Josephine Thompson in entry for Joe Howard Burrus, 15 Dec 1958; citing certificate number 71354, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,115,624.

On the same stone with Johnie M. Burrus. Tombstone is inscribed with years of birth and death only.

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