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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. (11/08/2024)
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Notes
From Rodgers and Wade Furniture Co. Funeral Records in possession of Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home; Book #8; p.343; Service #81; charge to Chairman Contingent Expense account 33rd Leg.; ordered by O.L. Means; date of funeral, 24 Mar 1913; place of death, Austin, TX; services at Evergreen cemetery; Clergyman, Kendall; cause of death, Cerebro Spinal Meningitis; date of death, 22 Mar 1913; Occupation, Legis. [Legislature]; Married; body to be shipped to Paris; interment at Evergreen cemetery; PB coach $5.00; 4 carriages $14.00; hearse $10.00; services $5.00; box & lining grave $4.50; Total $46.50.
Information from THE HISTORY OF THE SCHOOLS IN WEST PARIS 1884-1984, by Debbie Burks, 1984, p. 21: “J. C. Hunt served as the first principal of Graham School when the Paris Public School System began in 1884. He remained as principal for two years. Afterward he studied law and served as justice of the peace and county judge of Lamar County. In the election of 1890, Mr. Hunt defeated Judge Charles S. Neathery who had insisted upon a two-story, fireproof vault to house records of the offices of the county and district clerks. (With the county clerk’s records there in the Great Fire of 1916, Judge Neathery’s unpopular decision became ’fully vindicated.’) It was under Judge Hunt’s leadership that, in 1895, the first granite courthouse was begun. (This courthouse, with the four-faced clock tower, burned in the Fire of 1916.) Judge Hunt remained until Mr. Neathery was again elected in November, 1896. Mr. Hunt continued his political life when he moved to West Texas. He was elected to the state legislature there. He died while in Austin, Texas, for a legislative session.”
THE CHOCTAW HERALD, (Hugo, Choctaw Co., Okla.), Thursday, March 27, 1913: “Buried at Paris The funeral and burial of the late Judge J. C. Hunt was held at Paris Tuesday afternoon. Paris was the old home of Mr. Hunt, and he requested to be interred there. Judge Hunt was well known to many people in Choctaw county, having spent a great part of his life in the Texas city. At the time of his death he was representing another county in the legislature. He was one of the victims of meningitis epidemic which has been the cause of the death of several members of the state legislature recently. Before the body left Austin, memorial services were held in the capitol building.” Submitted by Emily Jordan.
Buried next to Bellzora Hunt.
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