Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bankhead, John Will 214522

Birth: 01/20/1859 Death: 01/08/1934 Marriage: 11/26/1885

Cemetery: Forest Chapel (UNMARKED)

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. (12/16/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Tuesday, January 9, 1934, p. 4: "Last rites for John W. Bankhead, 75, who died Monday morning at the home of his son, E. B. Bankhead, at Chicota, were held Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist church of Chicota. The Rev. L. E. Shackleford conducted the services. Burial was at the Forest Chapel cemetery. Surviving Mr. Bankhead are his widow, Mrs. Liza Bell Bankhead of Chicota; three sons, E. M. Bankhead of Honey Grove, E. R. Bankhead of Chicota and Clyde Bankhead of Cunningham; three daughters, Mrs. Virgie McGee of Dodd City, Mrs. Willie Knight of Lubbock, Mrs. Fannie Williams of Estelline, Texas; one sister, Mrs. Nan Hurdle of Jacksonville, Miss., and a brother, Bob Bankhead of Seymour."

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: John W Bankhead
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 08 Jan 1934
Event Place: Chicota, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 20 Jan 1859
Birthplace: Mississippi
Father's Name:
Mother's Name:
Certificate Number: 3478
GS Film number: 2115948
Digital Folder Number: 005145457
Image Number: 03646
Citing this Record: "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K344-VCB : accessed 12 April 2016), John W Bankhead, 08 Jan 1934; citing certificate number 3478, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,115,948.

Buried in Chicota in an unmarked grave in Lamar County, Texas. Born in Holly Springs, Marshall Co., Mississippi, the son of James (1815-ca.1880) and Martha Jane Webster Bankhead (1826-ca.1880). Married Louisa Belle Littrell 26 Nov 1885, Mt. Vernon, Franklin County, TX. Children were 1. Ernest Milton, 2. Elmer Ross (Buddy), 3. Fannie, 4. Virgie, 5. Willie Mae, 6. Johnny, 7. Clyde. Louisa died 9 Oct 1958 in Vernon, Wilbarger Co., TX and is buried there.

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