This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: bbirdswife1228 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.texas.counties.lamar/1221.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi I am not a relative to the Courciers, but I do live in Paris, Lamar County, Texas. I can try to help you if you like. I can go see if I can find an obit. for Name: W. H. Courcier Born: 1895 Died: 1947 Buried: Evergreen Location: 08-65-00- The Paris Junior College has old local newspaper issues on microfiche. Here are the newspapers and the dates available for each: Western Star: January 3, 1851-December 20, 1851 Lamar Inquirer: September 4, 1856- October 16, 1856 Dinner Horn: 1924, 1927, 1929, 1933 Lamar County Echo: January 1973 - December 1989 Paris News: March 24, 1909-1911, March 24, 1916 - present It is unlikely we will find an obit for Frank, Isabel and Rosemond. It will take me a little bit of time to find W. H.'s unless you have an exact date of death, not just the year. Below you will find a link to the Lamar County, Texas Cemetery and Interment record lookup site online. http://gen.1starnet.com/cemetery.htm The below interment record is transcribed from the above site. It is a very interesting interment record. it is on Henry A. Courcier, who died in 1907.Interment Record for Henry A. Courcier Name: Henry A. Courcier Born: 6 Jul 1882 Died: 15 Aug 1907 Buried: Evergreen Location: 08-65-00- Notes: From Rodgers and Wade Furniture Co. Funeral Records in possession of Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home; Book #5; p.284; Service #108; H.A. Courcier; charge to same; order given by W.O. Jones; died at 650pm on 15 Aug 1907 at Shawnee, I.T.; service on 17 Aug 1907 at Mrs. S.E. Walton's 602 N. Main at 5pm; Clergyman, Archer, Lamar M.E., (Manton sick); interment at Evergreen, Lot 65 Section 8 W. Side; coach $5.00; 5 carriages $17.50; hearse two times $15.00; wagon delivery, box and dug grave $1.50; Funeral notice sent to Jack Bone, $3.00; open grave $5.00; total cost $47.00. *Sexton records of Evergreen have no indication of this burial. Buried next to W.H. Courcier. *From an undated-unnamed newspaper obituary clipping from 'The Paris Scrapbook' donated by Skipper Steely; 'HELD A POST MORTEM. Henry A. Courcier, a well known traveling man, who was for several years a resident of this city, died about six weeks ago at Shawnee, OK, where he was making his home, and the remains were ! brought here for interment. His death was supposed to have been caused by tin poison from eating a piece of stale apple pie from a tin plate. Last Thursday three strangers, said to be from Kansas City, arrived in Paris. One of them was a medical expert who has had a great deal of experience in holding autopsies, and another is said to have been an officer or agent of an accident insurance company. The third man was a stenographer. Shortly after their arrival they went out to the cemetery and exhumed the remains of Henry A. Courcier and held a post mortem examination of them, lasting about five hours, after which the body was consigned to the grave again. It is understood that as a result of the examination the doctors were of the opinion that the death of the deceased was not due to tin poison or any other kind of poison, that it was the result of natural causes, and that he died from appendicitis. It is reported that the deceased carried an accident insurance policy for $1! 0,000 and that the purpose of the post mortem examination was to estab lish the fact that he died from natural causes in order to defeat the payment of the insurance, and the taking of shorthand notes was for use in the trial in contesting the claim.' resource: 'The Paris Scrapbook' donated by Skipper Steely 'Lamar County, Texas Cemetery records online' Rodgers and Wade Furniture Co. Funeral Records in possession of Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home; Book #5; p.284; Service #108 Just let me know what you want me to do, I can go look on Monday morning. I have several I have to go look up too. courtesy reply, Debra Cornett Usry. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.