Charles Lamar Tatom

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Norbit Lamar Tatom, 80, of Pineland, died Monday night in the Hemphill Care Center. He was born in Pineland to Clyde and Marie Sanford Tatom. Norbit was a retired truck driver for KLLM Trucking Company.

Norbit is survived by his son David Tatom of Hemphill, his daughters; Betty Johnson of Bellevue, Nebraska, Patty Jones and her husband David of Gladewater, Peggy (Suzy) Dickerson and her husband Tommy of Hemphill, Lisa Hodges and her husband Steve of Alvin, TX, his brothers; Eugene Tatom of Pineland, Charles Tatom of Magnolia, TX, his sisters; Delorse Scott of Lindale, Inez Tatom of Rosevine; seventeen grandchildren, thirty great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. He was preceded in death by his wife Janie Tatom, his son Charles Lamar Tatom, and his brother Doyle Tatom.

Visitation will be from 5:00PM until 9:00PM, Wednesday, Oct. 16, and from 9:00AM until 9:00PM, Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr St., Hemphill, Texas. Funeral services will be at 11:00Am, Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Plainview Cemetery.

Copied from the Starr Funeral Home Website
Also published in
The Sabine County Reporter
October 23, 2013, Page 13

Norbit married Janie Irene Bolt on 2 Mar 1967 in Sabine County, Texas. Janie was born on 11 Oct 1935 in Geneva, Sabine County, Texas; died on 6 Oct 2010 in Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Obituary, from FindAGrave

Janie Irene Bolt Tatom passed away on October 6, 2010 in Lufkin, Texas. She was born in Geneva, Texas on October 11, 1935 to Thomas and Sydney Bolt, and resided most of her life in the Sabine County area.

Janie was survived by her son, David Lee Tatom of Killeen, Texas; her three daughters, Peggy "Suzy" Dickerson and husband Tommy of Hemphill, Betty Johnson of Killeen, and Patty Jones and husband David of Gladewater, Texas; one brother, Maurice Rash of Saratoga, Texas; 15 grandchildren, Daniel and Donald Johnson, Jeff Tatom, Krystin Lindner, Rob Deitzel, Jr, Christine and Melissa Deitzel, Amber Jones, Jeremy, Amber, and Joshua Tatom, David Tatom, Jr., Janie Elizabeth Tatom, Nacole Mitchell, Matt Dickerson; and 30 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents Thomas and Sydney Bolt, her son Charles Lester Tatom, her brothers James Bolt and Thomas "Buck" Bolt and her sister Betty Gail Sparks.

Visitation will be Friday, October 8, 2010 from 4pm until 9pm, and Saturday, October 9, from 9am until 9pm in the Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr Street, Hemphill, Texas. Funeral services will be Sunday from October 10, 2pm at the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Gravelhill Cemetery, near Hemphill, Texas.

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Married:
They appear to have been married first prior to the birth of their eldest children, and then remarried in 1967. They remarried a third time, on 25 May 1980, divorcing again for a final time on 5 Nov 1984 in Dallas.

Clyde married Marie Sanford. Marie was born on 12 Oct 1913; died on 23 Jan 1979; was buried in Plainview Cemetery (aka Plainview Family Cemetery), Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From OLD TIMERS OF SABINE COUNTY, TEXAS by Virgie Speights

WILL TATOM March 28, 1963

When Will Tatom celebrated his 89th birthday Sunday, more than 150 persons attended the annual all-day celebration. A new 50 foot long table had been built in the yard of his home near Pineland, where he has lived for the past 50 years. Fifty-four of his 70 descendants were present including all nine of his children.

Mr. Tatom was in the midst of all the hubbub, chipper as could be, greeting friends and relatives from far and near, including several sets of twins these being scattered throughout the family. The little Saver twins, exactly 85 years younger than he, perched one on each knee while he remembered about his early life.

Born in the community in which he has lived his whole life, just southwest of Hemphill, he told of his early ancestors being early Sabine County settlers. His mother, the former Ella Dent, was a native of Georgia, but his father, Samuel Plummer Tatom was born at old Sabinetown, of parents who came from Mississippi. The family claims Indian ancestry, and Mr. Tatom does seem to possess the dignified bearing of an Indian chief.

Mr. Tatom has the reputation of being a steady, enthuisiastic worker. His first job was hauling freight by wagon and mule team before the days of railroads in Hemphill. He hauled freight from Many, Louisiana and Bronson, Texas for the early Hemphill merchants, including Ed Pratt, J.O. Toole and Taylor Morris. He still remembers the day he made his biggest paycheck. From Bronson he rushed to a printing press to Hemphill and then sped back to Bronson with a gasoline motor. For this long day's work, he received the magnificant sum of $10, which was really a handsome sum in those days.

Most of his livilhood was earned on the farm and he owned quite a sizable portion of land in his community, his holdings stretching from near Hemphill to quite close to Pineland.

As each of his children married, he gave 40 acres as a wedding present. For the boys, he added a horse. All except two of his children still live in this area, in the Pinehill and Plainview communities. Mrs. Ola Kemp, a daughter lives in Beaumont, Texas, and W. C. Tatom, a son, lives in Buna, Texas.

Mrs. Vernon Dubose, her husband and two children, live with her father in the old home. The others, who live near are Dewey, Elmon, Clyde, Claude, Grady, and Mrs. Edna King.

Mr. Tatom married Miss Delia White, also a native of Pinehill, in 1896. She died in 955, after 59 years of marriage.

(Medical):Senelity, Diabetes Mellitus

Samuel married Harriet Adelia "Delia" White on 7 Jan 1896 in Sabine County, Texas. Harriet (daughter of Amazia Vardeman "A. V." White and Ary Adney "Addy" Davidson) was born on 19 Dec 1874 in Pine Hill, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas; died on 6 Mar 1955 in Pineland, Sabine County, Texas; was buried on 7 Mar 1955 in Spring Hill Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Medical):See attached sources.