Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Thompson, Crayton H. 204102

Birth: 10/01/1880 Death: 05/16/1942 Marriage: 02/22/1917

Cemetery: Evergreen (29-84-04)

Record Source: The Roxton Progress, Texas Death Certificate

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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. (05/12/2025)

Notes

From an old scrapbook of newspaper clippings and obituaries collected by Ada Bradley Yates of High community, transcribed by Phillip Rutherford. Unnamed, undated newspaper: He died at home in the Ballinger community of a heart attack. He had been a farmer and stockman all his life. Surviving are his wife Nellie Beville Thompson, sons Craton B. and Carl Ray and brothers and sisters Gould of Paris, George of Brookston, the Rev. Harry of Sulphur Springs, Mrs. Allie Walsh of Megargel, and Mrs. Lillie Boyd of Broken Bow.

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Crayton H Thompson
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 16 May 1942
Event Place: Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 01 Oct 1880
Birthplace: South Carolina
Father’s Name: Geo Thompson
Mother’s Name: Lavada Winchester
Certificate Number: 22899
GS Film number: 2137101
Digital Folder Number: 005145836
Image Number: 01855
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3DW-6LG : 5 December 2014), Crayton H Thompson, 16 May 1942; citing certificate number 22899, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,137,101.

On the same stone with Nellie M. Thompson. Married Nellie Beville.

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