Roll Osborn, Economy, IN., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000






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Roll Osborn.  Of former Shreveport citizens and business men a long 

memory will cherish the name of the late Roll Osborn, who was in the 

undertaking business of that city for many years, and while of a very

 retiring nature, was responsible for deeds of kindness and charity 

that make his career a memorable one.



He was born at Economy, Indiana, January 20, 1873, son of Elim and 

Agnes Osborn and of Quaker ancestry. He grew up in Indiana, was 

educated in that state, and for thirty years was identified with the 

business and profession of undertaking.  He received his early training

 in the profession under instruction of his father, with whom he 

continued association for a number of years in his home town in Indiana.  

He then went to Arkansas and after spending two years at Hope came to 

Shreveport, in September, 1906.  He died at Shreveport January 14, 

1923.  At that time he was a member of the Rotary Club, the National 

Funeral Directors' Association and the Presbyterian Church.



Mr. Osborn married Miss Kitty Atkinson at Economy, Indiana.  Of the 

four children born to their marriage the oldest son, Charlie A., 

died at Shreveport during the influenza epidemic in 19l8.  He married 

Sadie Lockett of Coushatta, Louisiana, and to this union was born a 

daughter, named after her father, Charlie A., born in January, 1919,

 subsequent to the death of her father.  Mrs. Osborn has continued 

to make Shreveport her home, and since the death of her husband has 

continued the business, in association with her sons, at 714 Texas 

Street.  There are three surviving children:  Percy E.,  Henry R. 

and  Martha.  Martha is the wife of C. A. Crawford, of Shreveport.  

Percy, who married Miss LaRue Butler, of Lufkin, Texas, is the father 

of two children:  Kitty Jane, born in 1919, and a son, Roll Osborn, 

named for his paternal grandfather, and born in 1924.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 54, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.