Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Turner, Cordelia Holbrook 219907

Birth: 12/21/1845 Death: 02/15/1931 Marriage: 03/00/1868

Cemetery: Evergreen (18-36-03)

Record Source: Headstone, 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. (12/14/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Tuesday, February 17, 1931, p. 10: “Funeral services for Mrs. T. S. Turner, 85, who died at 1:15 o’clock Sunday afternoon at her home, 364 Clarksville street, were held at 2:30 o’clock Monday afternoon at Manton-Fry Funeral Home. Services were conducted by F. L. Young of Dallas, formerly of the Lamar Avenue church of Christ, assisted by R. L. Colley, present minister of that church. Burial was in Evergreen cemetery. Pallbearers were Herbert Turner, Charles Turner, Glenn turner and Alva Winters. Out of town friends and relatives who attended the funeral were Mrs. Ida Davis of Stillwater, Okla; Mrs. Claude Bailey and children, Dick, Mary Ellen and Blendon of Stillwater and Miss Dorothy Castle, Stillwater, Okla. Mrs. Turner, formerly Della Holbrook, was born Dec. 21, 1845, near Nashville, Tenn. Her parents moved to Texas when she was an infant and settled near Mt. Vernon, Franklin county. She moved to Paris in 1885, having married Thaddeus S. Turner in March, 1868. Mr. Turner died Sept. 2, 1922. Mrs. Turner had been a member of the Church of Christ since her girlhood. Surviving Mrs. Turner are one daughter, Miss Effie Turner, two sisters, Mrs. Ida Davis of Stillwater, Okla.; Mrs. J. l. Fulbright of Mt. Vernon; one brother, G. R. Holbrook of Talco; five grandchildren, Herbert, Charles, and Glenn Turner, Miss Ariel Turner and Mrs. Alva Winters. Mrs. Turner’s sons preceded her in death were W. Herbert and Charles Turner.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Delia Turner
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 15 Feb 1931
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 21 Dec 1845
Birthplace: Tennessee
Father’s Name: Wm Holbrook
Mother’s Name: Mary Jones
Place of Burial: Evergreen
Certificate Number: 9043
GS Film number: 2135506
Digital Folder Number: 005145142
Image Number: 01645
Citing this Record: “Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K339-JM4 : accessed 08 Jul 2014), Delia Turner, 15 Feb 1931; citing certificate number 9043, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2135506.

Tombstone is inscribed with years of birth and death only. Buried next to Thaddius S. Turner. The record of her husband Thaddius S. Turner shows her maiden name to be Cordelia Holbrook.

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