Obituary: The Paducah Sun. Paducah, KY. Sunday, August 26, 1984. William Paul Burgess, 49, a former resident of the St. Denis community in Carlisle County, died here at 3 a.m. Friday. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Mildred Burnett, of Detroit, and Mrs. Rosetta Turnbow, of Indiana; and two brothers, Tom Burgess, of Mayfield, KY., and Joseph Burgess, of Detroit.
He passed away in 1984. His tombstone has his name as Paul "Jake" Burgess.
1. 1940 US census Hickman County, Kentucky on familysearch.org
2. Brother's obituary index.
4. birth record on ancestry.com
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