Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Townsend, Elizabeth A. Whitesides 221271

Birth: 08/29/1877 Death: 10/07/1919 Marriage: 00/00/1892

Cemetery: Presbyterian (NORTHWEST)

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. (05/12/2025)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, Wednesday, September 10, 1919: “Mrs. Lizzie Townsend, the wife of W. L. Townsend, a well known farmer three miles west of Chicota, died suddenly at her home a few minutes before 7 o’clock yesterday morning, the immediate cause of her death being heart failure. She is survived by her husband and seven children, three of them are almost grown. the youngest is an infant a few hours old. She was the daughter of the late W. C. Whiteside, who was for a number of years a prominent farmer of that section. Besides her own family she is survived by her mother and by three brothers and three sisters, all of whom live in Lamar county except one of the sisters, who lives at Antlers, Ok. The funeral will be held this afternoon and will be conducted by Rev. J. W. Milligan.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Elizabeth A Whitesides
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 08 Sep 1919
Event Place: Chicota, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 29 Aug 1877
Birthplace: North Carolina
Father’s Name: J F Whitesides
Mother’s Name: Elizabeth A Whitesides
Certificate Number: 27150
GS Film number: 2073673
Digital Folder Number: 005145734
Image Number: 02532
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K38N-NLG : accessed 27 January 2016), Elizabeth A Whitesides, 08 Sep 1919; citing certificate number 27150, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,073,673.

The death certificate is in her maiden name. The death certificate also reflects date of death as September 8, 1919 yet the Paris News reflects Oct. 8, 1919 and her married name. Birth dates and Place of Burial or removal match on both sources.

On the same stone with husband, William L. Townsend. Also in the burial records of J. W. Milligan, Pastor of Chicota Baptist Church, as Lizzie Townsend buried 10 Sep 1919.

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