To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Texas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Texas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 10/6/21 • Approved: 10/6/21 • Last Updated: 10/9/21 • R461381-G0-S3
1879-1952
At Rest
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
J. M. Burgess, a resident of Wheeler County since 1908, passed away at his home here early Wednesday morning. Mr. Burgess had been in ill health since the time he retired from his shoe repair business some few months ago but had not been critically ill the past few days.
Mr. Burgess came to this area as a farmer, but went into the building business a few years after coming to Wheeler County and built or helped to build many of the early day homes in Wheeler and this area.
Funeral services were conducted at the First Baptist Church here, where he was a devout member, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. E. Douglas Carver, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Pampa, a nephew of Mr. Burgess, officiated and was assisted by Rev. M.B. Smith, pastor of the Wheeler Church, and Judge A.C. Wood.
Interment was in the Wheeler Cemetery with Kirk-Mason Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Burgess was born in Hood County, Texas on October 9, 1879 and passed away at his home in Wheeler on November 4, 1952, at the age of 73 years and 25 days.
Survivors include the wife, Mrs. J.M. Burgess, four sons, Barney Burgess of Wheeler, Bailey Burgess of Houston, and Maurice and Watson Burgess both of Wheeler; one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Mae Crone of Winston, Mo.; one half brother, Troy Burgess of Canyon; one half sister, Mrs. Lula Loftin of Rogers, Arkansas; three step-sons, J.C Bowerman of Amarillo, V.H. Bowerman of Kingman, Arizona, and O.L. Bowerman of Wheeler; 14 grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren. His first wife, one daughter, two half brothers and one half sister preceded him in death.
Pall bearers were Levi Reid, Bob Rodgers, Shelby Pettit, John Lewis, Farmer Hefley and Harry Wofford.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, November 6, 1952)
-----
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: J. M. Burgess
Death Date: 4 Nov 1952
Death County: Wheeler
Certificate: 57282
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: J M Burgess
Birth Date: 9 Oct 1879
Birth Place: Hood, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas
Father: Troy Burgess
Mother: McDonald
Age at Death: 73
Death Date: 4 Jan 1952
Death Place: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Contributed on 10/6/21
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 461381