Obit ot Carraway, Minnie Young - Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Carol Young Knight
Source:  Local newspaper - 1975
Date:  9/13/1999


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Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Young Carraway, 89, of Vidalia, La.
formerlyof Jonesville, were held at the Wallace Ride Baptist Church of
JonesvilleTuesday at 10 a.m. with the Rev. James O. McNair and the Rev.
Gayle Deanofficiating.  Burial was in the Jena Cemetery with Young's Funeral
Home incharge of services.

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Mrs. Carraway was born February 5, 1886 at Enterprise.  She died Sunday
atJefferson Davis Memorial Hospital in Natchez after a lengthy illness.She
was a member of the Vidalia Baptist Church and a charter member of theFirst
Baptist Church of Jonesville.Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Nellie
C. Dayton, Mrs. Elizabeth Dean,and Mrs. Doris Judice all of Vidalia; Mrs.
Ethel "Bunkie" Barrilleaux ofCrystal Beach, Tx, and Mrs. Minnie C. Hickey of
Orange, Tx., a son, ArchieBracey Carraway of Natchitoches; a sister, Mrs.
George Lovall of Shreveport,17 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren and 2
great-great-grandchildren.Grandsons served as pallbearers.(Note:  Minnie
Emerzon Young was the child of Henry Thomas Young and ElizabethPeyton
Cornwell.  She married Ethal Barksdale Carraway December 17, 1905)

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