Death Records

Wichita Falls Times, Wichita Falls, Texas 8/22/1974
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1270)

p. 16
Mrs. Marvin L. McCullough dies at Possum Kingdom

    Mrs. Marvin L. (Camille) McCullough, 61, of 2017 Avondale died Thursday at Possum Kingdom Lake.
    Daughter of a pioneer family in Wichita Falls, the Piner Avises, she was born in Wichita Falls March 28, 1913, and lived here all her life. She attended high school and junior college here.
    Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Fain Memorial Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Ned Hollandsworth officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. 
    Mrs. McCullough was a member of the Fain Memorial Presbyterian Church and the Bethania Auxiliary. She married Marvin McCullough, an independent oil operator, in 1936. They have one daughter, Mrs. Marilyn Musolino of Dallas.
    The late Mr. McCullough came to Wichita Falls from Brazil, Ind., in 1925. He was a regent at Midwestern University, a director of the First Wichita National Bank, was president of the Petroleum Club and Wichita Club, president of the North Texas Oil and Gas Association and other offices.
 

Montgomery County, Tennessee Wills & Inventories, Guardian & Bond Book A 1797-1810 
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1265)


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p. 62
(114)     Know all men by these presents that we John Sevier, Robert Dunning, James Huling, & John Stewart of the State of Tennessee and County of Montgomery are held & firmly bound unto the Governor of the State aforesaid and his successors in office in the sum of five thousand Dollars to be paid to the Governor and his successors or their Assigns which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves our heirs Executors and Administrator jointly and severally firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals and dated this 29th day of July 1800.
    The condition of' the above obligation is such that if the above bounden John Sevier, Administrator of all and singular the goods and Chattles rights and Credits of Valentine Sevier deceased do make or caused to be made a true & perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods & chattles rights and Credits of the deceased which have or shall come into the hands knowingly or possession of the said John Sevier, or into the hands …


Acknowledged in open Court
Test - 
W. C. Jamison, C.M.C                

                            J. Sevier (seal)
                            Robert Dunning (seal)
                            James Hurling (seal)
                            John Stewart (seal)


p. 63
(116)    Inventory of the Estate of V. SEVIER, Deceased.
one house & lot in Clarksville, five head of Cattle, hoggs number to me unknown, one sett of Plough Irons, one Brass Blunderbuss, one pair of hand mill stones, one Grindstone, four bedsteads, seven chairs, one Table, one big wheel, one flax wheel, two Looking Glasses, one knife Box, Crockery ware, knives & forks, some pewter quantity unknown, one black walnut chest, three old barrels, three Water pails, one ax, three weeding hoes, three large potts, one small post, four dutch ovens, one pair fire Dogs, one Smoothing Iron, two waiters, one house bible, two Candle sticks, one Chizel, one pair shovel & tongs, one spice Mortar, one file, one pair Candle Snuffers, one note on William Campbell for two hundred Eight two Dollars which is believed to be a bad debt, one pair pott hooks, one drawing knife, one shovel Plough.

July 29th 1800.     signed- J. Sevier, Administrator
 

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 5, 1995
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1260)



WAXAHACHIE - Zora Iva Barlow, 89, a homemaker, died Friday at a Waxahachie nursing home. Funeral will be held at 4 p.m. Monday at the Boze-Mitchell Funeral Home in Waxahachie. Burial will be at the Lakeview Cemetery. 



Mrs. Barlow, a Madisonville native, lived in Maypearl and in Waxahachie. Her husband, Albert Leeroy Barlow, died in April 1977.



Survivors are four daughters, Iva Lee Richards of Fort Worth and Betty Ruth Sullivan, Mary Elsie McAdams and Joan Anne Cockerham, all of Waxahachie; two sons, William Monroe "Bill" Barlow of Fort Worth and Glen Stafford Barlow of Dallas; two sisters, Fannie Mae Stanton of Waxahachie and Tennie Betty Russell of Fort Worth; brother, Leonard Olin Williams of Fort worth; 20 grandchildren, 33 great-grandhildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.

Wichita Falls Times-Record News 12-22-1990
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1259)

December 22, 1990
p. 4A

Deaths

Piner D. Avis

Piner D. Avis, 80, of 2405 Farington died Friday at his home.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Hampton-Vaughan Funeral Home with Dr. Isaac Butterworth, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, officiating.  Burial will be in Rosemont Cemetery.
He was born Oct. 15, 1910, in Wichita Falls where he was a lifetime resident.  He was a retired oil field tool pusher and a member of First Presbyterian Church.  He attended Harding Junior College and University of Oklahoma.
Survivors include his wife, Burch M.; a son, R. R. Cocke of Wichita Falls; two sisters, Martha Wood of Wichita Falls and Helen Miller of Dallas; a brother, J. D. of Clay County, Texas; five grandchildren; and 11 great grand-children.

The Mexia Weekly Herald 9/21/1945
(C. Avis Catalog entry #34)

The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Texas), Vol. 67, No. [38], Ed. 1 Friday, September 21, 1945, p. 1 (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292666/: accessed June 20, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library


J. F. Williams, 71, Died in Maypearl
                    —
    J. F. Williams, 71, brother of Tom and John Williams of Mexia, died Wednesday morning at 7:40 at his home in Maypearl, relatives her have learned.  Williams was a resident of Limestone for 40 years after coming to Texas at the age of 3.  He was born in 1874 in Mississippi.
    For the past 31 years he has lived in Maypearl, where he farmed until recently.  Mrs. Williams, the former Miss Lizzie Stafford, died in the fall of 1941.  Surviving him are eleven daughters and two sons. 
    Funeral arrangements are pending the arrival of a son in service who is stationed in Florida.
 

Dallas Morning News 5/12/2005
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1255)

MILLER, HELEN AVIS
92, born to James David Avis and Alide Neelley Avis in Wichita Falls, Texas on August 19, 1912, died in Dallas, Texas on May 8, 2005.  Survivors include, her husband, Buck J. Miller; daughter Madelaine Miller Singleton and husband James R. Singleton; grandchildren, John Smithheisler, Laine Smithheisler, and Christina Singleton; sister, Martha Avis Wood; brother James David Avis, III; many nieces, nephews, great nieces, and nephews.  In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by a brother, Piner D. Avis.  She was a graduate of Wichita Falls High and CIA, now known as TWU.  During her teaching career she taught in Jolly, TX and in Wichita County Schools.  Also, she drove the bookmobile to rural areas in the Freiberg Community, was a secretary for an oil company and was a housewife and mother.  Helen was a member of Highland Park Presbyterian Church where she was a Elder.  She was also active in Friday Fellowship, Church Circle, Christmas Card project chairman, Grace Village Crafts project, among others.  She was an active member of P.E.O. where she held various offices.  Helen will mostly be remembered for her jovial personality, enjoying friends and for being a wonderful wife, mother and grandmother.  The family requests memorial contributions to, Earle Crawford Alzheimer's Center, c/o Presbyterian Manor, 4600 Taft, Wichita, Falls, TX 76038.  A Memorial Service will be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, May 14, 2005 in Wynne Chapel of Highland Park Presbyterian Church.  Entombment was in Wichita Falls, Texas earlier this week.

Sparkman Hillcrest
7405 W. Northwest Hwy, Dallas
(214) 363-5401
 

Death Certificate of William Brown Ross
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1251)

"Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9Y1W-9S4Y?cc=1983324&wc=9T45-GP8%3A263835801%2C267647501%2C267871101 : 6 April 2023), Death certificates > 1934 > Vol 051, certificates 025001-025500, May, Upton-Zavala counties > image 114 of 524; State Registrar Office, Austin.

Texas Department of Health
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Standard Certificate of Death

Registrar's No. 83 [stamped 25105]

1.  Place of Death:  
        State of Texas
        County:  Walker
        City:  near Huntsville 
2.  Full Name of Deceased:  W. B. Ross 

PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3.  Sex:  Male,  4. Race:  White,  5. Widowed
5a. Spouse: --
6.  Date of Birth:  Nov. 14 - 1847
7.  Age:  87 years 6 months 7 days
8.  Trade, profession or kind of work done:  Farmer
12.  Birthplace:  Texas
13.  Name of Father:  Frank. Ross  14. Birthplace:  --
14.  Name of Mother:  --    16. Birthplace: --
17.  Informant:  L. J. Ross [signed]  Huntsville

18.  Place or Burial or Removal:  Gladstone  Date:  May 12 1934
19.  Undertaker:  J. G. Ashford, Huntsville

20.  File Date and signature of Registrar:  
    6/30/34  Kate Banky [signed] 
  

MEDICAL PARTICULARS
21.  Date of Death:  May 11 1934
22.  I hereby certify that I attended deceased from May 7, 1934, to May 11, 1934
    I last saw him alive on May 11, 1934;  death is said to have occurred on the date stated above at 6 pm
    The principal cause of death and relate causes of importance was as follows:
        Apoplexy    
        Arteroschlerosia
    Other contributory causes of importance:  No
    Name of operation:  None
    What test confirmed diagnosis:  Visual   Was there an autopsy?  No

23. If death was due to external causes (violence) fill in also the following:  No
24. Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?  No

    W. E. Fowler, M.D. [signed] 
    Huntsville, Tex 

Will Book A Anderson Co., South Carolina
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1226)

"South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-FX9Z-41?cc=1919417&wc=M6NW-5Z9%3A210903301%2C211077401 : 21 May 2014), Anderson > Wills, 1791-1834 > image 235 of 293; citing Department of Archives and History, Columbia.

p. 390, 391

South Carolina
Pendleton District

In the name of God amen - 
I Mathias Richardson of the above State & District and County being of sound mind & disposing memory do make and constitute this my last will and testament -
In the first place - I recommend my Soul to God who gave it and and my body to be decently buried without pomp or extravagance and as to what worldly goods it hath pleased God to bestow upon me it is my will and I do [...]tinly order that they be disposed of in the following manner -
First That all my lawful debts be paid
Secondly - That all my estate real & personal at my decease to be equally divided among my sons and daughters of the following names, Viz - Chasity Gilliland Catharine Stanton John Richardson Mathias Richardson Sarah[?] Frances Clardy Elizabeth Ward Mourning Tarrant Anna Dossett, & to my three grandchildren Aaron Mathias and David (sons of my daughter Martha Jarvison dec^d) I give and bequeath a portion of my said estate in amount equal to that of one of my above named children which [...] or portion of my estate to be equally divided among my said grandsons Aaron Mathias and David - hereby revoking all former wills by my hand -
Lastly - I do Nominate Constitute and appoint my sons John & Mathias Richardson and also William Stanton executors of this my last will and testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand I affixed my Seal this 27th day of June Eighteen hundred and twenty seven

                                                                                                                    his
                                                                                                        Mathias  x  Richardson
                                                                                                                    mark

Witnesses Present
John Wilson
Sam^l Wilson
Clark Wilson

Proved Dec 27th 1828 ['9' was overwritten by '8'] by the oath of Clark & Samuel Wilson - Recorded & examined by
    John Harris, O.A.D.[?]

Wichita Daily Times, Wichita Falls, Texas 6/28/1952
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1220)

(Document ID 659)

p. 1

Mrs. J. D. Avis, 87, Dies at Home

Mrs. J. D. Avis, of 1318 Tenth, died Friday at her home.  She had been a resident of Wichita County 67 years.

Born in Parksburg [sic], W. Va., she married in 1885 at Montague, Texas and moved to Wichita County the same year.

Surviving are three sons, Dave Avis and Piner Avis of Wichita Falls, and Jake Avis of Austin; three daughters, Mrs. Lillian Baum and Mrs. James B. Baker of Wichita Falls, and Mrs. W. F. Weeks of Tyler; eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Hampton-Vaughan-Merkle Funeral Home.

The family has requested that no flowers be sent.
 

Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania Will Book B
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1219)

p. 105-106


"Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99B-J7KJ?cc=1999196&wc=9PM8-923%3A268498501%2C270871401 : 3 July 2014), Cumberland > Wills 1750-1779 vol A-C > image 173 of 361; county courthouses, Pennsylvania.

[the following is not dated, but it follows a 11/12/1771 entry and precedes a 12/1/1771 entry]

In the Name of god amen I James Ellot being very sick but of perfect mind & memory I Do want to Leave John Ellot to Do Justice Between Alexander and Mary Ellot I alow my son Alexander to give to mary my Daughter a horse and saddle worth ten pounds & shut of clothes and Alexander to have the place and marey to have the Brenett heifer and my son Willm Hodg to keep the horse that he got from me this being my Last Will

James
his mark
Ellot

NB Letters of Administration was granted to Jno Elliot with a copy of the will annexed