Obituary: January 1929, Franklin Parish, LA Submitters name listed with obit ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The following obituaries are listed below: Miss Carrie Adams Mrs. Stella Hawthorne ******************************************** ******************************************** The Franklin Sun Winnsboro, LA January 25, 1929 Submitted February 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd Miss Carrie Adams Passes Away Thursday, January 17, After Illness Of Two Months On last Thursday at the noon hour the Death Angel visited the Riverside Sanitarium in Monroe and departed with the beautiful and dearly beloved life of Miss Carrie Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Adams, of Winnsboro. Miss Adams had been ill since last November. She underwent treatment at hospitals in New Orleans before going to Monroe, where everything that medical science could summons was done for her with the tender touch of loving hands. Miss Adams is well known over all Franklin parish and the surrounding territory, having been borned and reared in Winnsboro. She attended and finished high school here, later attending college, both at Centenary in Columbia, Tennessee and Belhaven College, Jackson, Mississippi. She was a staunch member of the Methodist church, cooperating at all times with the religious workers of the city in their undertakings. She was kind, sincere and true to all with whom she came in contact, leaving an impression of goodness by her daily life and being only 22 years at the time of the passing. Those left to grieve the irrepairable loss of this beautiful life are her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Adams of Winnsboro; three sisters, Mrs. T. V. Berry of this city; Mrs. Jesse Gilbert of Gilbert; and Mrs. Frank B. Mays of Delhi; three brothers, John R. and J. C. of Winnsboro, and W. H. Jr., of New Roads; and a multitude of relatives and friends. Interment was made in the Winnsboro cemetery with the three pastors of the city officiating in conjunction. -------------------------------------------------- The Franklin Sun Winnsboro, LA January 11, 1929 Submitted February 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd Mrs. Stella Hawthorne Passes Away On Last Monday Afternoon Mrs. Stella Hawthorne passed away on last Monday afternoon a short while after the noon hour. She was residing two and one-half miles from Winnsboro on the Ft. Necessity road at the time of her death. Mrs. Hawthorne was the widow of Albert Hawthorne who died some three months ago at the same place. Mrs. Hawthorne is survived by a large family and a host of relatives and friends. Interment was made in the Winnsboro cemetery on Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Irvin Hemphill, pastor of the Church of God near Winnsboro. -----------------------------------------------------------