Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Thomas, Will 204022

Birth: 09/08/1884 Death: 12/24/1951 Marriage: 00/00/1908

Cemetery: Evergreen (30-89-02)

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. (12/14/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Wednesday, December 26, 1951, p. 7: “WILL THOMAS [picture]. Will Thomas, 67, compress foreman and former public weigher, who lived at 125-12th NE, died Monday at 5 p.m. at the Sanitarium of Paris. the funeral was held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home by the Rev. Paul O. Cardwell of First Methodist Church. Burial was made in Evergreen Cemetery, pallbearers being Noble Thompson, J. B. Thomas, Jr., Edwin Bowen, William Haley, Frank Crain and W. P. Denman. Mr. Thomas leaves his wife, the former Miss eula Bowen, whom he married in 1908; two daughters, mrs. D. E. Mitchell, Marshall , and Mrs. C. J. Pantaleo, Broxville, N.Y.; three grandchildren and a brother, J. B. Thomas, Paris. Born at Pattonville, Sept. 8, 1884, Will Thomas was a son of the late Dan W. and Ada (James) Thomas. He attended Pattonville schools and was a farmer there. He was elected public weigher at Pattonville 1914-1918, and after moving to Paris was elected weigher there, 1933-37. He had lived in Paris since 1920, and was foreman for the Farmers and Merchants Warehouse and Compress. He had joined the Methodist Church in 1916 and was a member of the Masonic Lodge.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Will Thomas
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 24 Dec 1951
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 08 Sep 1884
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: Dan Thomas
Mother’s Name: Ada James
Certificate Number: 63905
GS Film number: 2074926
Digital Folder Number: 005145638
Image Number: 02859
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3Z3-9ZC : 5 December 2014), Will Thomas, 24 Dec 1951; citing certificate number 63905, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,074,926.

On the same stone with Eula Thomas. Tombstone is inscribed with years of birth and death only. Buried next to Myrtle Stamps Binnion.

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