Sherman Daily Democrat
May 6, 1937
Page 11

Funeral services for Jim P. Isom, 47, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Bethany church, five miles northeast of Sherman, conducted by the Rev. C. Chumbley, Howe Baptist minister. Interment will be in Bethany cemetery under the direction of the Talley Funeral home. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Caughey are to sing at the services.
Mr. Isom died at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in a local hospital after a heart attack Wednesday afternoon at his home on route 1.
He was born in Grayson county and had lived in the county all his life, for the last eight years occupying his route 1 home. He had been a farmer all his life.
Surviving relatives include four sisters, Mrs. Jack Fleenor, Mrs. Lillian Hestand and Mrs. Paul Gaskell, all of Denison, and Miss Juanita Isom of Leonard; three brothers, Fred Isom of Denison, Oscar Isom of Monroe and L.C. Isom of Fort Worth, and three stepchildren,
Mrs. L.S. Venerable, Olin Stalnaker and Gus Stalnaker, all of Sherman.
Pallbearers will be Jess Mercer, H.E. Orr, Clyde Watkins, W.B. Long, H.C. Mercer and Grover Knox. The body will remain at the funeral home until time for the services.

Texas Death Certificate
Name : Mrs. Sarah Vida Isom
Birth : 1 January 1855, Clarkesville, Texas
Father : A.D. Rigsby, born Tennessee
Mother : Jane RIgsby, born Tennessee
Spouse : Jim Isom
Death : 1 January 1937
Cause of death : Uremia and nephritis

Texas Death Certificate
Name : Infant Isom
Birth : 21 June 1922
Father : Jim Isom
Mother : Lyda Fowler
Death : 21 June 1922

Texas Death Certificate
Name : Wilson James Isom
Birth : 30 September 1914, Grayson County, Texas
Father : Jim Isom
Mother : Vida Fowler
Death : 18 May 1933
Cause of death : Drowning
Age : 18 yrs 7 mos 18 dys

Sherman Daily Democrat
May 19, 1933
Page 3 

Boy Drowned Near Sherman, 
Wilson James Isom Had Been Swimming in Lake Near Home 
Last rites for Wilson James Isom, 18, who was drowned Thursday afternoon while in swimming at the lake at his home, three miles southwest of Sherman, were held at 3 p.m. Friday at the Bethany church conducted by the Rv. C. Chumbley of Howe. Burial was in the Bethany cemetery under the direction of the Talley Funeral home of Sherman. Pallbearers were Tom Johns, Melvin Jobe, Colquit Orr, Bill Orr, Frank Scott, Raymond Bell, Guy Flanery, Ed Goff and Nolen Caughey.
Isom was drowned after a futile attempt to save his life was made by Gus Stalnaker, a half-brother. Mr. Stalnaker, his wife and the victim's
mother, Mrs. Jim P. Isom, were with the youth when he lost his hold on a raft he was swimming around and went down. Stalnaker plunged into the water and started to shore with the boy. But the youth slipped from his hands and with Stalnaker and the others looking on went down. His body was found an hour later.
Surviving are the parents, two half- brothers, Mr. Stalnaker and Ollin Stalnaker of Denison, and a half-sister, Mrs. Luther Venable.
Isom lived with his parents on the farm. He had lived in Grayson county all his life, being born September 30, 1914 in Bethany. Mr. Isom, the father had lived in and near Sherman for the last 25 years.