Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Baxter, Walker B. 257724

Birth: 03/23/1883 Death: 05/15/1961 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, Tuesday, May 16, 1961, p. 6: “WALKER B. BAXTER. Paris News Service. CLARKSVILLE — Walker B. Baxter, farmer of Clarksville, Rt. 3, died at the Sanitarium of Paris, Monday at 11:50 p.m. Jolley’s Funeral Home here has charge of burial arrangements. Mr. Baxter leaves his wife, Nora Alice; a son, Grady Baxter. Purcell, Okla., a stepson, Willie Douglas, Clarksville; a sister, Mrs. Mary Ward, McAlester, Okla., two brothers, John Baxter in California; and Oscar Baxter in Arizona and a half-brother, Jay Freeman of Duncan, Okla.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: W B Baxter
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 15 May 1961
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 23 Mar 1883
Birthplace: Georgia
Father’s Name: John Baxter
Mother’s Name:
Burial, Cremation or Removal Place: Clarksville Cemetery
Certificate Number: 29130
GS Film number: 2116745
Digital Folder Number: 005145519
Image Number: 02098
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3H7-B7N : 13 March 2018), John Baxter in entry for W B Baxter, 15 May 1961; citing certificate number 29130, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,116,745.

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