This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Biard, Truss, Wheeler, Wood, Evans Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YlB.2ACI/2004 Message Board Post: Abstracted from the "Bonham News" 8 Aug. 1919: James Robert Biard died Tues. at hospital in Oklahoma City; appendicitis; home in Poteau, Oklahoma; body to Bonham; services 1st Christian church; buried Willow Wild; 2nd son of Eld. J.M. Biard, pioneer preacher of Christian church in Texas in Lamar Co.; J.R. Biard born on farm ten miles south of Paris 47 yrs. ago. To Bonham 1902; married Miss Lola Truss, sister of Mrs. C.A. Wheeler; moved to Lamar Co. and stayed on farm then he entered ministry; also lived and preached in Hugo and other places in Okla.; survivors: wife and son, mother Mrs. J.M. Biard of Paris; one brother J.W. Biard of Biardstown; Mrs. W.R. Wood of Paris and Mrs. Ashley Evans of Bonham.