Living

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015 shows he was a son of Henry A. Bennett and Ella Grafton.

Noel married Lydia Edith Gaar before 1933. Lydia was born on 21 Nov 1908 in Dodson, Winn Parish, Louisiana; died on 23 Jul 1957 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Tyler Memorial Park and Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Find a Grave shows her as a daughter of William Michael GAAR and Bernice Lola FORD Gaar.

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The social security death index shows that his last address of record was San Augustine, and that his account was issued in Pennsylvania. The image of his Texas Death Certificate shows he was born in Texas, and that his usual occcupation was with the Postal Service. He was not a veteran of the armed forces. It was also shown that he had lived in San Augustine his entire life.

San Augustine History 1928
Column by Harry P. Noble
Published in The San Augustine Tribune, Thursday, October 13, 2005, pg 10

JULY

Nine local Boy Scouts went on a 10-day summer camp near Jacksonville, Texas. They were:
Tom Blount, Hampton Downs, W. H. Fussell, Morgan Harris, Floyd Lucker, Miller Mathews, Charles McMillian and Harold Taylor. These same boys, plus seven more--George Ramsey, Joe Bickley, Philip Cockerham, Wyatt C. Teel, Lawrence Rulfs, Herbert Payne and Luther Morris--had a party at Bland Lake the week before.

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Name: Tom Burrus Blount
Death Date: 04 Oct 1974
Death Place: San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas
Gender: Male
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Death Age: 60 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1914
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Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Betsy Blount
Father's Name: Thomas W. Blount
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Annie T. Burrus
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Film Number: 2243402
Digital Film Number: 4167721
Image Number: 2457
Reference Number: 77709
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Tom married Elizabeth "Betsy" Lillian Freeman before 1939. Elizabeth was born on 16 Feb 1916 in Denning Community, San Augustine County, Texas; died on 15 Aug 2004 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in San Augustine City Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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08/17/2004
Obituaries
The Daily Sentinel, Nacogdoches, Texas

Elizabeth Lillian "Betsy" Blount
San Augustine City Cemetery

Funeral for Elizabeth Lillian "Betsy" Blount, 88, of San
Augustine will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Christ Episcopal
Church, San Augustine, with the Rev. Glenn Harper officiating.

Burial will be in San Augustine City Cemetery.

Blount died Aug. 15, 2004, in San Augustine.

Born Feb. 16, 1916, in Denning, she was the daughter of Dr.
W.K. Freeman and Lucette Teel. She had been a schoolteacher
and was a member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.

Survivors include a daughter, Lucette Blount Bennett of
Jackson, Miss.; son, Dr. Tom Blount of San Augustine; nine
grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Wyman Roberts Funeral Home, San Augustine.