SIXTH GENERATION

243. Eliza Ann Martin was born on 6 Jul 1875 in Decatur County, Tennessee. She died on 10 Oct 1908 in Lamar County, Texas. She was buried in Restland Cemetery, Lamar County, Texas.

She was married to Myron H. Ausmus (son of John H. Ausmus and Mary Maria Colpitts) on 2 May 1900 in Lamar County, Texas. Myron H. Ausmus was born on 15 Nov 1871 in Mount Steling, Illinois. He appeared on the census on 14 Jun 1900 in Precinct #3, Lamar County, Texas.⁽²⁸⁴⁾ He died on 12 Feb 1965 in Lamar County, Texas. ⁽¹⁴²⁾ He was buried in Restland Cemetery, Lamar County, Texas.

Interment Record for Myron H. Ausmus
Name: Myron H. Ausmus
Born: 15 Nov 1871
Died: 12 Feb 1965
Buried: Restland
Location: BACK SW

Notes: THE PARIS NEWS, 12 Feb 1965: 'Myron H. Ausmus, 93, longtime Lamar County resident who lived at 2420 Bonham St., died there Friday at 1:15 a.m. The funeral Saturday at 4 p.m. will be conducted in Fry and Gibbs chapel by the Rev. Jack McNabb of Garrett Memorial Methodist Church where Mr. Ausmus was a member. Interment to be made in Restland Cemetery at Roxton. He leaves these children: Mrs. Joe Holman, Paris; Mrs. Verlie Hall, Idabel,Okla.; Miss Theresa Ausmus, Knoxville, Tenn.; Earl Ausmus, Garvin, Okla. and M.C. Ausmus, Dallas; 20 other descendants; Also these sisters; Mrs. T.R. Tugwell, Dallas; Mrs. Hogan Clark, Texarkana and Mrs. Anthony Paness, and a brother, Bill Ausmus, both of Paris.

Born at Mount Steling, Ill., 15 Nov 1871, a son of John H. and Mary Maria (Colpitts) Ausmus, M.H. Ausmus came as a child to Lamar County with his parents, and attended old Rice school at Ambia. He had been a merchant and sawmill operator in this area and Choctaw County, Oklahoma, returning here in 1942. He had been a Mason, and belonged to the Methodist Men and his church's Brotherhood Class. He married Miss Eliza Ann Martin in 1900, and she died in 1908, and Miss Beulah Finch, whom he married two years later, died in 1949. *Buried next to Eliza Ann Ausmus.