Obit: Mrs. Effie Dalzell Ingersoll, 1964, Caddo Par., Louisiana
Submitter:  Debra W. Dame
Date: May 2000
Source:  The Shreveport Times Newspaper, Shreveport, LA
Tues., 21 July 1964, page 4-A



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Obituary of Mrs. Effie Dalzell Ingersoll


"RESIDENT'S RITES TO BE HELD TODAY"



    Funeral services will be held for Mrs. Effie Dalzell Ingersoll, 91,

of 1804 Elizabeth St., at 4 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mark's Episcopal Church.

    The Rev. Michael Thompson, assistant rector of the church, will

officiate.

    Mrs. Ingersoll died at 5:30 a.m. Monday at her home following a long

illness.

    She was a lifetime resident of Shreveport.  Born in 1873, she

attended Kate Nelson's School for Young Ladies and graduated from

Lousiana State Normal College (now Northwestern State College, at

Natchitoches).

    Mrs. Ingersoll taught school for five years in Caddo Parish public

schools.

    She was the widow of of the late Andrew Jackson Ingersoll, a cotton

broker.  She was the daughter of the late Rev. W. T. D. Dalzell and

Estelle Logan Dalzell.  The Rev. Dalzell was the former rector of St.

Mark's Church.

    Mrs. Ingersoll was one of the founders of the Caddo Chapter of the

American Red Cross during World War I.  She was a charter member of the

Shreveport Chapter of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of

America, a charter member of the Women's Department Club, the North

Louisiana Historical Society and an honorary member of the Shreveport

Country Club.

    She is survived by two daughters, Miss Estelle Ingersoll and Mrs.

Grace Ingersoll  Smith, both of Shreveport; and two grandchildren, Bailey

Ingersoll and Shirley Dalzell Smith of Shreveport.

    She will be buried at Oakland Cemetery.  The Osborn Funeral Home is

making arrangements.

    Pallbearers will be Floyd Hughes, William B. Hamilton, Henry Furman,

Albert Cowan, Allen Grave and W. I. Ingersoll.