Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Blevins, Jesse A. 254437

Birth: 02/06/1885 Death: 01/21/1942 Marriage:

Cemetery: See Notes

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. (12/15/2025)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, January 23, 1942, p. 3: “BLEVINS FUNERAL. COOPER. (Special). -- Last rites for J. A. (Jess) Blevins, 56, were set for 3 p.m. Friday at the Methodist Church here, conducted by the Rev. J. P. Flemings of Gainesville, assisted by the Baptist pastor, with interment in Oaklawn Cemetery by Smith Funeral Home. Mr. Blevins died at 4:20 p.m. Wednesday at the Sanitarium of Paris where he had been a patient three days. He had made his home in Delta County a number of years, and managed cotton gins at Enloe and Lake Creek, as well as the Cooper Cooperative Gin. Surviving are his wife and eight children, Bryan, Warren D., and Mary Nell Blevins and Mrs. Harry McClain here; Mrs. Truett Carrington, Enloe; Mrs. Morris Wilson and Clisto Blevins, Dallas and Woodrow Blevins, Gilmer; a brother Alford Blevins, Cooper, and two sisters, Mrs. Florence Cogdell, Tokio, Ark. and Mrs. Mary Short, Slaton.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Jesse Alex Blevins
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 21 Jan 1942
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 06 Feb 1885
Birthplace: Arkansas
Father’s Name: W B Blevins
Mother’s Name: Frances E Sanford
Certificate Number: 3586
GS Film number: 2138819
Digital Folder Number: 005145843
Image Number: 02267
Citing this Record
“Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3DC-PKY : 5 December 2014), Frances E Sanford in entry for Jesse Alex Blevins, 21 Jan 1942; citing certificate number 3586, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,138,819.

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