Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Brian, Mary Ann McKinney 214792

Birth: 10/17/1835 Death: 04/04/1920 Marriage: 09/23/1869

Cemetery: Friendship (SOUTHEAST)

Record Source: The Paris News, Texas Death Certificate, Researcher-Submitted Info

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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. (12/15/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Tuesday, April 6, 1920, p. 1: “Mrs. M. A. Brian, an old resident of Lamar county, died at the Sanitarium as the result of falling and breaking her hip on the 14th of February. She had been been visiting the family of T. M. Cox on South 23rd street and had just started home. Coming to a wet place in the sidewalk she went to walk around it and slipped. She was eighty-four years old and was remarkably active for her age. She was very fond of visiting neighbors and taking long walks. She was nearly a mile from home when she net with the accident. She was born in North Carolina and had been a resident of Lamar county since 1872. Her home since coming to Lamar county had for many years been in the Biardstown community in which her brother, the late Capt. A. A. McKinney, one of the most prominent men in that section, resided. She is survived by a son, W. L. Brian of Paris, with whom she was making her home on North Main street, and a daughter, Mrs. T. D. Dunn, of Talpa [Coleman County, Texas]. The funeral service will be held at the Rodgers-Wade chapel at 10 o’clock this morning, conducted by Revs. R. P. Shuler and Wallace, after which the body will be taken to the country for burial at Friendship church, below Biardstown.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: M A Brian
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 03 Apr 1920
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 17 Oct 1835
Birthplace: North Carolina
Father’s Name: Mat Mckinney
Mother’s Name:
Burial, Cremation or Removal Place: Friendship cemetery
Certificate Number: 14429
GS Film number: 2073752
Digital Folder Number: 005145876
Image Number: 01229
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3DY-WJL : 5 December 2014), M A Brian, 03 Apr 1920; citing certificate number 14429, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,073,75

Information from Brent Brian, Gastonia, NC, 25 May 1995: Full maiden name was Mary Ann McKinney. Born in NC, daughter of John Madison McKinney and Martha McKinney. Died in sanitarium as the result of a broken hip received 14 Feb 1920. Married John Thomas Brian 23 Sep 1869 in Rutherford Co. NC. Their children were: 1. Willie L., (born 1872 in TX), 2. John Thomas Brian, Jr., (born Sep 1874 in TX), 3. M. N. Brian, (born 1878 in TX, married T. D. Dunn. The death and burial of John Thomas Brian is unknown. It is known that he was listed in his father’s will as living in Marshall, Harrison Co., TX in 1871.

Tombstone is inscribed, ‘M. A. Brian.’ Buried next to Will L. Brian.

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