Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bills, Laura M. Higgs 239032

Birth: 01/06/1886 Death: 04/25/1951 Marriage:

Cemetery: Union Grove (NOT PLOTTED)

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. (12/17/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Wednesday, April 25, 1951, p. 14: "Mrs. A. R. Bills, 2320 E. Price St., died Wednesday at 3 a.m. at the sanitarium of Paris, where she had been a patient for the past 10 days. She was formerly Miss Laura M. Higgs, daughter of W. Albert and Mattie Lee McHam Higgs, and was born in Paris, Jan. 6, 1886. The funeral was set for Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Brown-Roden Funeral Home, Wilburn Whittington, Church of Christ minister having charge. Burial was arranged in Union Grove Cemetery near Reno, pallbearers being Luther Higgs, Charlie Biard, Jim Sanderson, Tom Quinn, Dan A. Bills and Joe Bills. Besides her husband, Mrs. Bills leaves one son, Sterling Bills here; three grandchildren; a brother Cole Higgs, San Angelo, and a sister, Mrs. Mary V. Pyron, Clinton, Okla. She had lived all her life in Lamar County and was a member of Lamar Avenue Church of Christ."

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Laura M Bills
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 25 Apr 1951
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 06 Jan 1886
Birthplace: Reno, Texas
Father's Name: W Albert Higgs
Mother's Name: Mattie Lee Mcham
Certificate Number: 19987
GS Film number: 2074694
Digital Folder Number: 005145615
Image Number: 00385
Citing this Record: "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3CL-6LY : accessed 12 December 2015), Laura M Bills, 25 Apr 1951; citing certificate number 19987, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,074,694.

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