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Basinger, Will E.   219921
Birth: 02/12/1869    Death: 04/01/1939    Marriage: 12/24/1896
Cemetery: Hopewell (NOT PLOTTED)
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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)

Notes

Location was not stated in the Cemetery records submitted by Barbara Harris.

From an old scrapbook of newspaper clippings and obituaries donated by Zoe Hazelwood of Paris, TX; dated 1 Apr 1939. 'W. E. BASINGER DIED SATURDAY, W. E. Basinger, 70 year old farmer - stockman of Hopewell community, dropped dead at his home Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The funeral service will be held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the tabernacle at Hopewell, interment to be made at the cemetery there. The Rev. Woodrow Baker of Emberson, Baptist preacher will conduct the service and Brown-Roden Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. Gus Harris, Travis Badgett, John Roach, Benton Love, Lloyd Gambill and Redus Parker were named pallbearers. A native of Missouri, Basinger came to Lamar County in 1901 and had lived here ever since. His wife died 18 years ago. He leaves 4 children, Miss Katie Basinger, Floyd and Lewis Basinger of Sumner, Rt. 1, Eddie Basinger of Quanah and George Basinger of Wellington, Kans. There is one grandchild.'

See record of Katie Lou Basinger Wisely for more information.

Lamar Co. Marriage Record Book 15, p. 337: W. E. Basinger married Anzo Cunningham on 24 Dec 1896.

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