Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Tomerlin, Silas Walker 204734

Birth: 02/03/1871 Death: 12/21/1940 Marriage:

Cemetery: Knights of Honor (CTRNW)

Record Source: The Paris News, 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)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, December 22, 1940, p. 15: “S. W. Tomerlin Is Called By Death; Funeral Set Sunday. Silas William Tomerlin, veteran mechanic, formerly of Blossom, died at 1:50 p.m. Saturday at the Sanitarium of Paris and funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Methodist Church in Blossom. The Rev. L. C. Hill, the pastor, will officiate and burial will be made at the Knights of Honor Cemetery there by Brown-Roden Funeral Home of Paris. Pallbearers will be Clyde Humphrey, O. B. White, Jack Bars, Cecil Blacksmith, Travis Fodge and Reese Byron. Mr. Tomerlin leaves two daughters, Mrs. Fayette Reddell and Miss Daisy Tomerlin both of Paris, and one sister, Mrs. L. L. Lindsay of Miami, Fla. He was born at Sharon Grove, Ky., February 3 1871, and lived many years at Blossom, where he was employed formerly at the oil mill as mechanic. Recently, he had made his home here with the Reddells.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Silas W Tomerlin
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 21 Dec 1940
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 03 Feb 1871
Birthplace: Kentucky
Father’s Name: W Tomerlin
Mother’s Name: Martha
Certificate Number: 56514
GS Film number: 2138201
Digital Folder Number: 005144983
Image Number: 02867
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K399-KF8 : 5 December 2014), Silas W Tomerlin, 21 Dec 1940; citing certificate number 56514, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,138,201.

On the same stone with Rebel Pitts Tomerlin.

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