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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. (12/16/2025)

THE PARIS NEWS, 23 Mar 1937, p. 2: “MRS. M. G. BALCH OF SOPER DIES HERE - Death of Mrs. Anna Balch of Soper, Okla., 65 years old, wife of Marvin G. Balch, occurred on Tuesday morning, at 4:45 o’clock at the Sanitarium of Paris where she recently underwent a major operation. The body was returned to Oklahoma by Manton-Fry funeral home, services to be held, some time Wednesday at Antlers.” Information from Ron Brothers: Anna Elizabeth Deaton married first to Daniel Tennessee Billings on 27 Oct 1895 in Lamar County. After his death in 1930 she married Marvin G. Balch. The date is unknown at this time but she probably married in Choctaw County, Oklahoma (as there is no record in Lamar County) where she was living at the time of Mr. Billings death.

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Anna Balch
Wife of: Marvin Balch
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 23 Mar 1937
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 27 Sep 1871
Birthplace: Mississippi
Father’s Name: Deaton
Mother’s Name:
Burial, Cremation or Removal Place: Antlers, Okla.
Certificate Number: 16390
GS Film number: 2117170
Digital Folder Number: 005144799
Image Number: 03062
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSBJ-6XC : 5 December 2014), Anna Balch, 23 Mar 1937; citing certificate number 16390, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,117,170.