Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Thweatt, Ruby Dunnam 224836

Birth: 11/26/1914 Death: 11/16/1942 Marriage:

Cemetery: Pleasant Hill (NORTHEAST)

Record Source: The Paris News, Detroit News Herald, 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, Monday, November 16, 1942: “Mrs. J. L. Thweatt of Paris, Rt. 6, died Monday at 11:30 a.m. at Lamar Hospital, where she had been since the birth of a daughter on Nov. 7. She was formerly Miss Ruby Dunnam, and was 27 years old. Funeral service was announced for 3 p.m. Tuesday at Brown-Roden Funeral Home with internment in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, north of High. Surviving are her husband and three young children, Patsy, Mary Evelyn and Frances Jane; her mother, Bertha Dunnam, Paris; a sister, Mrs. Mary Wehrhan, Oklahoma City, and these brothers: Vernie and Earl F. Dunnam, Paris; Roscoe Dunnam, Detroit; V. Dunnam, McKinney, and Jack Dunnam, serving somewhere with the United States Army.”

THE DETROIT NEWS-HERALD, 19 Nov 1942 from microfilm in Clarksville Library: “Mrs. J. L. Thweatt, 27, of Paris, Rt. 6, a sister of Roscoe Dunnam of Detroit, died at Paris Monday and funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon with burial at Pleasant Hill Cemetery north of High. She is survived by her husband, 3 children, her mother and 4 brothers.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Ruby Thweatt
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 16 Nov 1942
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 26 Nov 1914
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: W J Dunnam
Mother’s Name: Bertha Smith
Certificate Number: 50272
GS Film number: 2137185
Digital Folder Number: 005145108
Image Number: 02442
Citing this Record
“Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3SV-1BK : 13 March 2018), Bertha Smith in entry for Ruby Thweatt, 16 Nov 1942; citing certificate number 50272, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,137,185.

Buried next to W. J. Dunnam.

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