Bell C. TX - OBIT:  James Monroe Markham
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                   Jim Markham, 82, of Holland, TX, Dies

   Jim Markham, for 65 years a resident of the Holland community, died
   Tuesday night at Tulia at the home of his son Frank, where he had been
   living for the past three years.

   Mr. Markham, who was a farmer when he lived here, was born in
   Tennessee Sept. 11, 1853. He had not been ill, apparently dying of a
   stroke.

   Services will be conducted at 2:30 pm at the Baptist Church by Rev. B.
   B. Blaylock of Temple, who has conducted all the services for all
   members of the Markham family who have died. Buriel will be in Post
   Oak.

   Survivors are fours sons, Ed of Happy, Frank of Tulia, Walter of
   Cameron, and Ernest of South Dakota, two daughters Mrs. Austin McQuire
   of Rush Springs, Oklahoma, Mrs. Seth Waddell of Bentonville, Arkansas,
   and a brother, John, of Stamford. The late John Markham of Holland was
   another son.

   From the Temple (TX) Daily Telegram, 12 March 1936

   [ James Monroe Markham was born in Sparta, Bienville Parish,
   Louisiana, not Tennessee ]
   [ His parents were John B. Markham - Sarah E. Upshaw ]

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