Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Badgett, Dora Mae Miller 219990

Birth: 11/07/1909 Death: 07/09/1937 Marriage:

Cemetery: Hopewell (F-4-2-SW)

Record Source: Texas Death Certificate, The Paris News

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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)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, July 9, 1937, p. 3: “Death Calls Mrs. Travis Badgett - Mrs. Dora Mae Badgett. wife of Travis Badgett of Talco, died here of typhoid fever at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Miller, 245 North Eleventh Street, Friday morning at 10:10 o’clock. The funeral service will be held at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the tabernacle at Hopewell by the Rev. J. W. Milligan, and burial will be made at the cemetery there. Emberson-Brown-Roden Funeral Home has charge and pallbearers will be John Roach, B. F. Love, Mark Kennedy, Louis Basinger, Jim Perryman and Leslie Howie. Mrs. Badgett, who was born on November 7, 1909, leaves besides her parents and her husband, a sister, Miss Lawrencine Miller of Paris; a brother, Earl Miller and her grandmother, Mrs. H. L. Purcell, both of Sumner.” Also in an old scrapbook donated by Zoe Hazelwood.

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Dora Mae Badgett
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 09 Jul 1937
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 07 Nov 1909
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: Lawrence Miller
Mother’s Name: Myrtle Purcell
Certificate Number: 37340
GS Film number: 2117295
Digital Folder Number: 005145099
Image Number: 03481
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3SF-V26 : 5 December 2014), Dora Mae Badgett, 09 Jul 1937; citing certificate number 37340, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,117,295.

Tombstone is inscribed, "Wife of W. Travis Badgett." Also in the burial records of J. W. Milligan, Pastor of Chicota Baptist Church, as Dora Mae Miller.

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