Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Boatman, Jim D. 247746

Birth: 08/14/1874 Death: 12/29/1934 Marriage:

Cemetery: See Notes

Record Source: 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. (12/17/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, December 30, 1934, p. 2: DEATH CALLS J. D. BOATMAN. Hardware Salesman Succumbs Saturday; Funeral Monday In Dallas. J. D. Boatman, 60 year old hardware salesman, died Saturday morning at the Sanitarium of Paris, where he was taken several days ago for treatment from his home, 29 South Thirtieth street. The funeral will be held Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock in Dallas at the Ed C. Smith and Bros. undertaking chapel, burial to be in Wheatfield cemetery. He had lived in Paris the past fourteen years, being at the time of his death employed as traveling salesman for an Oklahoma City hardware firm. He was formerly connected with Dallas hardware and implement firms and for time operated his own store, the Boatman Hardware Co. there. Born in Mexico, Mo., he lived in Dallas about 23 years and in Oklahoma City four years before removing to Paris. He is survived by his widow and one son, J. D. Boatman, Jr., of Paris and four sisters Mmes. Everett Johnson, Hugh Sproul, and Bird Carter all of Mexico, Mo., and Mrs. C. C. Cohoon of Oklahoma City, and one brother, Roy Boatman of California."

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: J D Boatman
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 29 Dec 1934
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 14 Aug 1874
Birthplace: Monroe, Missouri
Father's Name: Wm N Boatman
Mother's Name: Edna Watts
Certificate Number: 55594
GS Film number: 2116250
Digital Folder Number: 005145490
Image Number: 01345
Citing this Record: "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K34G-BXB : accessed 23 May 2016), J D Boatman, 29 Dec 1934; citing certificate number 55594, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,116,250.

"United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CSR5-SN2 : accessed 23 May 2016), Jimmy D Boatman in entry for Jim D Boatman, 1930.

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