Living

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Van Williams, 66, of Bronson, died Saturday morning in his home. He was born in Hemphill to Alvin and Mavie Ann Sparks Williams and has lived in Sabine County all his life. Van served in the U.S. Army and was a retired jailer for the Sabine County Sheriff's Department. Van was a member of the Rosevine Church of God.

Van is survived by his wife Christine King Williams of Bronson, his sons; Jamie E. Williams and his wife Lisa of Hemphill, Bryan Matthew Williams and his fiance' Morgan Holloway of Bronson, his daughter Shellie Dorsey and her husband Benjie of Chugiak, Alaska, his brother Billy John Williams and his wife Jane of Bronson, and eight grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 6:00PM until 9:00PM, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, in the Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr St., Hemphill, Texas. Funeral services will be at 2:00PM, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Plainview Cemetery.

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A nearly identical obituary was published in The Sabine County Reporter on November 28, 2012, Page 12

Van + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sabine County Reporter
November 30, 2005

Wilford Weldon King

Wilford Weldon King, 80, of Plainview community died at 1:36 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21, 2005 in Hemphill. He was born March 4, 1925 in Sabine County as a son of the late Edna TATOM and James Ernest KING and had been a lifelong resident of the area. King worked for Temple-Inland for several years and was a World War II veteran of the U.S. Army. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church and Bronson Masonic Lodge, a fifty year member.

He was married to Johnnie Mae Byley King on Dec. 8, 1945. She preceded him in death on October 9. 2005 after 59 years, 10 months, and one day of marriage.

Survivors: three daughters and sons-in-law, Ernesteen and Kenneth SMITH of Pineland, Christy and Van WILLIAMS and Tricia and Billy CONN all of Bronson; eight granchildren, Tracee SMITH, Jereme and Cerri SMITH, Ken and Glenda SMITH, Bryan WILLIAMS, Jamie and Lisa WILLIAMS, Shellie and Benji DORSEY, Dustin CONN, and Brandon CONN; and 14 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Plainview Community Cemetery with Bro. Wayne Alford and Bro. Raymond Dowden officiating. Masonic graveyard rites and interment followed at Plainview Cemetery.

Services were under the direction of Starr Funeral Home Inc in Hemphill.

Wilford married Johnnie Mae Byley on 8 Dec 1945. Johnnie was born on 22 Mar 1929 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; died on 9 Oct 2005 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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San Augustine Tribune
Thursday, October 13, 2005

Johnnie Mae Byley King

Funeral services for Johnnie Mae Byley King, 76, of Plainview were held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at Plainview Church. Burial followed at the Plainview Cemetery with Bro. Wayne Alford and Bro. Vance Burtell officiating. She died Sunday at the Sabine County Hospital in Hemphill.

Johnnie May Byley King was born in San Augustine on March 22, 1929 to Edgar A. BYLEY and Ella TOWNSEND Byley. She was a homemaker and a member of the Brookeland Missionary Church.

She is survived by her husband, Weldon King of Plainview; daughters, Ernesteen SMITH and husband, Kenneth of Pineland, Christy WILLIAMS and husband, Van of Bronson, and Tricia CONN and husband, Billy of Yellowpine; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

Starr Funeral Home in Hemphill was in charge of arrangements.

Note: A similar obituary was published in the Sabine County Reporter on October 12, 2006, which listed the following grandchildren by name: Jamie and Lisa WILLIAMS, Shellie and Benji DORSEY, Tracee SMITH, Jereme and Cerrie SMITH, Ken and Glenda SMITH, Bryan WILLIAMS, Dustin CONN and Brandon CONN.

Notes:

"Aunt Mattie raised Geo. and Ernest (King) after the death of their father." (White and Toole, p 34).

Name: James Ernest King
Death Date: 15 Apr 1969
Death Place: Jasper, Jasper, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 76 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 09 Aug 1892
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: James D. King
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Nina Halbert
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Farmer, Carpenter
Place of Residence: Precinct #3 Rural Pineland, Sabine County, Texas
Cemetery: Plainview Cemetery
Burial Place: Sabine County, Texas
Burial Date: 15 Apr 1969
Additional Relatives: X
Film Number: 2137443
Digital Film Number: 4030479
Image Number: 1501
Reference Number: cn 35065
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


(Research):Could he have married first Vernon Maund? Seems unlikely as the James E. King, also born ca 1892, who married Vernon Maund can be found with her and their three children on both the 1920 and 1930 census listings, first in Sabine County and later in Sabine Parish, and both responded that they had been married approx. 16 years.



(Medical):See attached sources.

James married Edna Tatom on 25 Oct 1922. Edna (daughter of Samuel Willie Tatom and Harriet Adelia "Delia" White) was born on 30 Dec 1898 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 17 Apr 1969 in Jasper, Jasper County, Texas; was buried on 17 Apr 1969 in Plainview Cemetery (aka Plainview Family Cemetery), Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Medical):See attached sources.