Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Tolbert, William Wallace 204705

Birth: 01/11/1877 Death: 05/05/1960 Marriage: 11/27/1904

Cemetery: Knights of Honor (CTRSE)

Record Source: Texas Death Certificate, The Paris News, 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. (05/12/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, May 6, 1960, p. 2: “W. W. TOLBERT. W. W. Tolbert, 82, resident of Blossom vicinity 55 years, died here at Lamar General Hospita1, Thursday about 11 p.m. He was a retired farmer, living on Blossom, Rt. 2, Services, set Saturday at 2:30 p.m., will be held at First Baptist Church at Blossom, by the pastor, the Rev. Eddis Smith. Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home here will make interment in Knights of Honor Cemetery at Blossom. Born at Mountain Home, Ark., January 11, 1878, William Wallace Tolbert came to Texas in 1898. He married Miss Lucy Alice Shepherd of Deport, November 27, 1904, and she survives, besides these children: Morris C. Tolbert, Paris; Virgil F. Tolbert, Mt. Pleasant; William A. Tolbert, Denton, and Mrs. Jack R. May, Tex a s City, and 16 other descendants.

THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, May 8, 1960, p. 6: “TOLBERT BURIAL. Services for W. W. Tolbert, 82, of Blossom vicinity, who died Thursday, were conducted Saturday afternoon at First Baptist Church at Blossom. Interment was made in Knights of Honor Cemetery there by Fry & Gibbs, bearers being John Boren, C. U. Morrison, Carl Griffin, Max Rowland, Bill Baxter and Henry Risinger.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: William Wallace Tolbert
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 05 May 1960
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 11 Jan 1878
Birthplace: Mountain Home, Arkansas
Father’s Name:
Mother’s Name:
Certificate Number: 31217
GS Film number: 2116266
Digital Folder Number: 005145496
Image Number: 03422
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K34R-FGV : 13 March 2018), William Wallace Tolbert, 05 May 1960; citing certificate number 31217, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,116,266.

On the same stone with Alice Lucy Tolbert.

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