Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Burgess, Maurine 257837

Birth: 03/08/1925 Death: 11/20/1941 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. (12/17/2025)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, November 21, 1941, p. 3: “MISS MAURINE BURGESS. Miss Maurine Burgess, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Burgess of Mabry community, five miles West of Clarksvllle, died Thursday at 11:25 a. m. at the Sanitarium of Paris, where she was under medical treatment. The body was taken to Clarksville by Jolley Funeral Home, funeral service to be held sometime Saturday, the time depending on arrival o£ a brother from Wyoming. The service will be held at New Shamrock Church, and interment will be made in the cemetery there.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Maurine Burgess
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 20 Nov 1941
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 08 Mar 1925
Birthplace: Clarksville, Texas
Father’s Name: E G Burgess
Mother’s Name: Jannie Waters
Certificate Number: 51608
GS Film number: 2138748
Digital Folder Number: 005144999
Image Number: 02892
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K394-VMS : 13 March 2018), Jannie Waters in entry for Maurine Burgess, 20 Nov 1941; citing certificate number 51608, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,138,748.

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