Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Beckett, William T. 248289

Birth: 01/03/1868 Death: 11/05/1935 Marriage:

Cemetery: Odd Fellow (NOT PLOTTED)

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, Wednesday, November 6, 1935, p. 2: "W. T. BECKETT DIES AT HOSPITAL HERE. W. T. Beckett, 67 years old, died at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday night at Lamar hospital where he was a patient. Services had not been completed Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Beckett, who lived on West Shiloh street was employed at a sawmill on North Eighteenth street. Surviving him are a daughter and two sons, Mrs. Mary Sue Eckels of Paris and Willie and Vernon Beckett of Broken Bow, Okla."

THE PARIS NEWS, Thursday, November 7, 1935, p. 9: "Beckett Funeral Held On Thursday Morning. Funeral services for W. T. Beckett, 67, of West Shiloh street, who died at Lamar hospital Tuesday night, was held Thursday morning at Emberson-Brown-Roden funeral chapel here, Max Barton officiating, and internment was made in the Odd Fellows cemetery. Pallbearers were J. C. Wyrick, O. E. Bunch, Oscar Dempsey, W. H. Allen, W. Bray and A. S. Guthrie. Survivors are a daughter and two sons, Mrs. Mary Sue Eckles of Paris and Willie and Vernon Beckett of Broken Bow, Okla."

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: W T Beckett
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 05 Nov 1935
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Divorced
Birth Date: 03 Jan 1868
Birthplace: Texas
Father's Name: Alex Beckett
Mother's Name:
Certificate Number: 52588
GS Film number: 2116707
Digital Folder Number: 005145539
Image Number: 00207
Citing this Record: "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3HX-KB7 : 5 December 2014), W T Beckett, 05 Nov 1935; citing certificate number 52588, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,116,707.

William T. Beckett is enumerated with wife Fannie and children, Mary Sue, William, Jr. and Vernon. "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCM6-V4B : 14 December 2015), William T Beckett, Paris Ward 1, Lamar, Texas, United States; citing sheet 2A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,827.

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