Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

There has been an error loading a file. The webmaster has been notified.

Do a search or check index first to avoid duplicates!

If you've edited the name it will be updated. Just submit the page that comes up and the name will be updated.

This is a record of all the cemeteries (not burials).

This is a record of burials, cemetery by cemetery.

This is a record of burials for one cemetery.

Turner, Joseph Lee 224845

Birth: 11/05/1864 Death: 03/17/1948 Marriage: 03/13/1887

Cemetery: East Post Oak (NORTHWEST)

Record Source: The Paris News, Texas Death Certificate

See Image Turner,Joseph
Update info

If you copy this information, please cite this as your source:

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, Sunday, March 21, 1948, p. 9: "Funeral Is Held at Post Oak - By Paris News Correspondent - CLARKSVILLE. -Funeral servlce for Elder Joseph Lee Turner, 83, was held Thursday noon at Post Oak Church, northwest of Avery, by the Rev. J. D. McClung, Baptist minister, assisted by the Rev. D. D. Miller. Burial in Post Oak Cemetery was made by Jolley-Weaver Funeral Home, and pallbearers were Wilburn Lee, Wallace Lee, J. D. Lee, J. N. Lee, Basil McNabb and Leon Turner. Survivors are these children: Mrs. Rhoda Lee, Post Oak; Mrs. Ruthie McNabb, Clavksville; Mrs. Cleo Lee, Rugby, and Berry Turner, Fort Worth; a brother, H. C. Turner, Dallas, Ga., and a sister, Mrs. Jim Moore, Cullman. Ala.; 21 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Elder Turner was born Nov. 5, 1864 in Georgia, and came to Texas in 1902. He married Miss Mandy Cleveland in 1887, and she died some time ago. He had been a minister of the Missionary Baptist Church about 50 years. In ill health some time, he died at home in Post Oak community, Wednesday about 6 p.m."

THE DETROIT NEWS-HERALD, 18 Mar 1948 from microfilm in Clarksville Library: "Rev. J. L. Turner, 86, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bill Lee, in the Post Oak Community yesterday afternoon following a long illness. Services were being held this morning at Post Oak. Surviving are 3 daughters and a son: Mrs. Bill Lee, Post Oak; Mrs. McNabb of near Clarksville; Mrs. Jim Lee, Rugby; Berry Turner, Fort Worth; 16 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren."

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Joseph Lee Turner
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 17 Mar 1948
Event Place: Post Oak, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 05 Nov 1864
Birthplace: Polk, Georgia
Father's Name: Joe B Turner
Mother's Name: Elizabeth Morris
Certificate Number: 13447
GS Film number: 2218862
Digital Folder Number: 005145037
Image Number: 00260
Citing this Record: “Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K39G-SYT : accessed 08 Jul 2014), Joseph Lee Turner, 17 Mar 1948; citing certificate number 13447, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2218862.

On the same stone with Manda M. Cleveland.

The Death and Cemetery Records have reached 117130 records!!
Thanks to everyone who helped us reach this number.

Lamar County, Texas Home Page