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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. (12/17/2025)

LAMAR COUNTY ECHO, March 1979: "Mrs. Rufus Bartlett, 87, of Leisure Lodge Nursing Home died Tuesday, March 13, 1979, in a local hospital. She was formerly of 2321 Pine Bluff. Funeral services were held Thursday, March 15, with the Rev. Terrell Taylor officiating. Burial was in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens. Ethel Edmunson Bartlett was born November 1, 1891, in Honey Grove, daughter of William Isaac and Mattie O'Dell Edmunson. She married Rufus Bartlett on July 15, 1910, in Honey Grove. He died August 18, 1977. She was a Baptist. Survivors include two sons, Rufus Lee Bartlett of Milton Freewater, Oregon, and Jack Bartlett of Paris; seven daughters, Mrs. Ray (Dahlia) McGee of Dallas, Mrs. Virginia Pitt of Houston, Mrs. Kenneth (Dorothy) Webster of Brookston, Mrs. Sam (Nettie) Pointer of Greenville, Mrs. Joe (Jimmie) Rodriquez of San Antonio, Mrs. E. B. (Mildred) Creeekmore of Greenville, and Mrs. Bob (Wanda) Hutsell of Lubbock; 30 grandchildren; 53 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren. Pallbearer so were Wayne Dingman, Doug Hines, Wendell Smith, Kenneth Webster, James Stevens, Vondell Stevens, Ernest Garner and James Monk."

From the record journal of Meadowbrook Cemetery; daughter of William Isaac and Mattie O'Dell Edmunson. Married Rufus Bartlett. Born in Honey Grove, Fannin County, TX., died in Paris, TX.

Information from Jean Dingman [Deceased], 5 Apr 1996: Ethel Mae Edmundson was born November 1, 1891 in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas, LaMasco Community, daughter of Mattie O'Dell and Alford William Edmundson, married July 15, 1910 to Rufus Bartlett, died March 13, l979 in Paris, Lamar County, Texas and buried in Meadowbrook Cemetery, Lot # G55 Space #4. Children born to Rufus Bartlett and Ethel Mae Edmundson were (1) Ruby Mae Bartlett, born October 8, 1911, at Honey Grove, Fannin County, Texas, married (1) Ernest Marion Wood, October 18, 1932, married (2) Alfred S. Ross, June 1, l952, died August 22, 1976. Helen Jean Wood, born November 26, 1933, Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, only child; (2) Dahlia Beatrice, born January 5, 1913, married (1) Roy Lee Garner, August 1929, divorced April 1957. Roy Lee Garner died in Dallas Texas, January 18, 1988, buried in Lake Creek cemetery. Children born were (1) Dorothy Faye Garner Williams Savage, born January 24, 1934, Delta County, Texas, (2) Peggy Sue, born November 28, 1937, Delta County, Texas, (3) Darrell Wayne, born January 1, 1940, Delta County, Texas, died January 12, 1970, New Orleans, LA, buried in Laural Land Cemetery in Dallas on January 24, 1970; (4) Charles Lee, born January 12, 1942, Delta County, died at birth, buried in Rattan Cemetery, Delta County, (5) Ernest Marion, born June 6, 1944, Lamar County, Texas; (6) Ricky Dean, born November 26, 1947, killed in action in South Vietnam, March 5, 1966. Dahlia married (2) Ray McGee, in Athens, Henderson County, Texas on November 4, 1974. Ray McGee died December 28, 1986 in a December 27, 1988 auto accident in Texarkana, Texas, buried in Laurel Land Cemetery, Dallas, Texas on December 30, 1988; (3) Rufus Lee, born August 5, 1914 at Ben Franklin, Delta County, Texas, married Minnie Pearl Strawn. (vol 10 #252, Delta Co., Texas, marriage license, 5-29-1937) Children (all born in Delta Co.) of Rufus Lee and Minnie Pearl were: (1)Female, born June 5, 1938, Bobbie Jean Bartlett (2)Female, born June 12, 1940, Martha Sue Bartlett (3)Male, born April 23, 1943, Edward Lee Bartlett (4)Female, born Feb. 23, 1945, Barbara Ann Bartlett (5)Male, born April 07, 1947, Jerry Don Bartlett (6)Male, born May 26, 1950, Kenneth Ray Bartlett (7)Female, born April 24, 1952, Linda Kay Bartlett (8)Male, born May 18, 1953, Harold Junior Bartlett; (4) Mary Virginia, born April 27, 1918, married (1) Oma Bland April 27, 1941, married (2) Bill Pitt. There was a funeral service in Paris, Texas when Bill Pitt died, his body was cremated and returned to his home in a northern state, I believe somewhere in NJ. Bill Pitt was born July 1, 1914, Roseland Park, New Jersey. Bill died in Paris, Lamar County, Texas. Mary returned to live in Houston and I have not heard of her since. She and Oma had two sons, Billy Ray Bland, living at one time in the Houston area, and Michael Bland; (5) Dorothy Frances, born July 24, 1920, married (1) Floyd (Stephens) Stevens, 1937, married (2) Kenneth Aikin Webster. She died after 1976 and before 1986. She had five children; (6) Nettie Vera, born December 18, 1921 in Charleston, Delta County, Texas, married Sam Painter, Oct. 22, 1939 in Cooper, Delta Co., Texas by Rev. Earl M. Jones, pastor of First Methodist Church. Their children were (1) Patsy Olivia (Pat) Painter, born Feb. 22, 1941 in Commerce, Hunt Co., Texas, married to Doug ___, and (2) Jo Ferne Painter, (I do not know her married name, may be Embrey or Emerson.) born Jan. 3, 1944 in Commerce, Hunt Co., Texas; (7) Ethel June (Jimmie), born June 17, 1924, married Joe in 1943, died in San Antonio April, 1991; (8) Mittie Mildred, born September 29, 1925, married Fred Creekmore, April 23, 1944 in Commerce, Texas, Hunt County; (Fred died in fall of 1992 in Whiteright or Leonard); (9) Jack Oliver, born January 23, 1928, married (1) Vera Ward Robinson, married (2) Virginia Ellen McGee on Feb. 24, 1972. Virginia was born Feb. 24, 1942 in Lamar County, Texas; (10) Pat R (Orr), born May 19, 1930, died August 24, 1930; (Birth Certificate reads Pat R, Pat Orr, and Porter, Vol 1, #88); (11) Glorita (Gloria) Wanda, born November 30, 1931, married (1) Charles Monk, September 1961, son born, Jimmy Monk, on Nov. 19, 1951, died January 31, 1993, (Jimmy also has a son, names Jamie and he lives with his mother in PA.). Wanda married (2) James Ausmus, July 1966, who died June 1, 1973, Paris, Lamar county, Texas, child, Wendy Ausmus, Wanda married (3) Bob Hutsell, ; (12) Pansy Deverne (spelled Leverne too), born April 3, 1935, died May 9, 1935, Delta County, Texas. (Vol 7, #124). Parents of Ethel Mae Edmundson Bartlett were Alford William Edmundson, born June 1853 in Georgia,and Mattie O'Dell. He died April 1 (or 14), 1924, Houston, Harris County, Texas. Mattie O'Dell Edmundson, born 1864, died November 1891, buried in Fannin County at the old North(Ole) La Masco Cemetery, a rural cemetery between Bonham and Honey Grove, near La Masco Community. This is a private cemetery with about 7 grave sites, some unmarked and some marked with posts, located on the acreage owned by a Mr. Smith. Mittie Creekmore's daughter, Shirley married Wendell Smith. Wendell is son of Mr. Smith. I talked with an old-timer in Fannin Co. a few years ago and he remembered the cemetery as being called the old Ole North LaMasco Cemetery. Mattie was the daughter of Dorothy Melvina O'Dell who had two children. One sister of Mattie was buried at LaMasco during the colony war. Her father, (name unknown), was killed during a war. Her father, Alford Edmundson and his brother were farmers and surveyors of land. They surveyed land for the Indians in the lower part of Oklahoma and in the upper part of Texas. One of their children was born in Bryant, Oklahoma and it may be that they lived in that area at one time. Children of Alford William Edmundson and Mattie O'Dell were (1) Nettie Edmundson, born January 17, 1880 in Hunt County, Texas, died August 7, 1963, Durant, Oklahoma, married R. L. (Bob) James, 1908, children born were Ralph James and R. A. James; (2) Robert (Bob) Edmundson, was born April 1885 in Texas, married to Melissa Wood, according to Carolyn Garner. (Believe they have lived in Fannin Co. for many years.) (3) Mittie Edmundson, born January, 1888 in Texas, married Marion Wilkerson, (children born were Eugene (Gene), Elbert, and Troy), died March 13, 1966. Mittie was buried near Childress. (4) Cordelia Edmundson, born March (or January) 1890 in Bryant County, married to (1) ??? and (2) ?? Morris, and lived in Wichita Falls, Texas, until she died. She had one daughter. (5) An infant, born and died in infancy. Buried at Shady Grove Cemetery, next to parents, according to Carolyn Garner. (However, I wonder if this could be the old North La Masco Cemetery where Mattie Edmundson, Dorothy Melvina O'Dell and a daughter of Dorothy are buried. I ask the question, could this infant be the child of Mattie and Alford William Edmundson). (6) Ethel Mae Edmundson, born November 1, l891, married Rufus Bartlett, July 15, l910, died March 13, 1979. According to Carolyn Garner's notes, Alfred and Mattie Edmundson lived in Hunt County, Texas at Precient #4. At that time they had one child, Nettie. Also living with them was Mattie's mother, Dorothy Melvina O'Dell. The census shows that she was 38 years old, a widow, born in Arkansas, and was sick with 'Billion's Fever'. This census was taken June 18, 1880. Mattie died in November 1891, buried in Shady Grove Cemetery at LaMasco, Fannin, Texas. (We can not prove where she is truly buried at this time. I believe the correct cemetery is the 'old' Ole LaMasco Cemetery, located in Fannin County.) After the death of Mattie, Alford William Edmundson's first wife, he married Ida Thompson in Bonham, TX. He and Ida had three daughters and later were living in the Houston area. Ida helped raise Alford William's girls after his wife died in 1892. I do not remember hearing Ethel speak of Ida but I found a marriage certificate on record at Bonham Court House. Sometime between June 1880 and November 1891, they moved to Fannin County, Texas and settled at LaMasco. It is not known if Mattie's mother moved with them or if she remained in Hunt County, died there and was buried there, however, it is felt that she is buried at LaMasco Cemetery. Mattie died shortly after her daughter, Ethel Mae Edmundson was born. After Mattie died in 1891, Alfred (Alpha) William Edmundson married Ida Thompson on April 6, 1900 in Fannin County. Ida was 17 or 18 when they married and he was 45 or 46. Ida was 2 years younger than Nettie Vera. Ida was born January 1882 in Arkansas. Ida may have died in Houston, Harris County, Texas August 8, 1924. The deaths of Alfred and of Ida has not been documented, however, according to the records of 1903-1940 Texas Death Records, these names are listed. Alfred and Ida lived at Precinct #6, Fannin County, Texas, probably La Masco, with three of his children, Robert, Mittie and Ethel. Cordelia had a small cafe in Honey Grove. Ethel was 7 years old at that time. Additional information may be obtained from Jean Wood Dingman, P. O. Box 6028, Paris, Lamar Co., TX 75461-6028; or from her book, The Family History of the Wood, Bartlett and Dingman Families.