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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, Tuesday, January 24, 1961. p. 2: “BARNETT RITES. Last rites for James Loye Barnett, Paris, Rt. 6, were set Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Providence Baptist Church, Gene Roden & Sons funeral Home making burial in the cemetery there. The Rev. J. L. Wideman was to officiate and announced as bearers were Grover Darnell, Hubert Darnell, Early Nowell, Boyce Reed, Bruce Ray and O. A. ‘Red’ Gaines. Son of James W. and Fannie Martha (Jones) Barnett, J. L. Barnett was born in Texas April 2, 1887. He died of a heart attack Monday morning while burning brush near his home. He was unmarried, survivors being these sisters: Miss Myrtle Barnett and Mrs. Jim Lowman, Paris, and Mrs. Mae Bartee, Pittsburg, California.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: James Loye Barnett
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 23 Jan 1961
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 02 Apr 1887
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: Jas Washington Barnett
Mother’s Name: Fannie Martha Jones
Certificate Number: 04221
GS Film number: 2116622
Digital Folder Number: 005145507
Image Number: 00847
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K341-136 : 13 March 2018), Fannie Martha Jones in entry for James Loye Barnett, 23 Jan 1961; citing certificate number 04221, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,116,622.