Obituary: July 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: H. B. Metcher W. J. Morse R. M. Ward O. E. White Mrs. Fannie Elizabeth Wright ******************************************** ******************************************** The Franklin Sun Winnsboro, LA July 12, 1929 Submitted March 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd H. B. Metcher Metcher Dies On Last Sunday Near 9th Hour Has Been Resident of Franklin Twenty-Three Years The Death Angel visited and silently departed with the soul of H. B. Metcher last Sunday morning near the hour of nine o'clock. Mr. Metcher had been suffering with indigestion for the past several years and the doctors who attended him during his illness state that the death was not much of a surprise to them. He was living three miles from Winnsboro and had gone to pump some water. He failed to return in a reasonable time and his body was found some forty minutes after death came. Mr. Metcher was born in Kansas but had been in Winnsboro for the past twenty-three years. He was fifty years of age. He owned quite a bit of property in Franklin parish. The deceased is survived by a wife and five children and several brothers and sisters. Interment was made in the local cemetery with Rev. Charles Robinson, pastor of the local Presbyterian church, officiating. --------------------------------------------------- The Franklin Sun Winnsboro, LA July 5, 1929 Submitted March 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd W. J. Morse Morse Dies In Monroe On Last Sunday Night Had Undergone Operation; Was Born and Reared in Franklin. W. J. Morse, farmer of near Killian Landing, died at the Monroe Sanitarium last Sunday night, following an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Morse was 53 years of age. He was well-known in Franklin parish, having been born and reared here, and was highly esteemed and respected by all who knew him. He was a very successful farmer and will be missed very much by, not only his own immediate community, but by Franklin parish as a whole, his entire life having been spent here and the result of his many deeds of service having been felt by far more than a few. The passing of Mr. Morse came as a shock as he was apparently on the road to recovery after the operation and due to the fact that his health as a whole was good. He died within seventy-two hours after the operation. Those left to grieve the passing of Mr. Morse are his wife and six daughters, four brothers, namely, Z. T., S. J., T. E., and Iris, two sisters, Mrs. Azilea Flowers and Mrs. Ollie Jagers, all living nearby Mr. Morse at the time of his death. Interment was made in the Harris cemetery Monday afternoon. A very large crowd attended the funeral services which were conducted by Rev. O. L. Tucker, pastor of the Methodist church at Wisner. ----------------------------------------------------- The Franklin Sun Winnsboro, LA July 26, 1929 Submitted March 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd R. M. Ward Death Angel Visits Ward Home Thurs. Victim Was Born and Reared in Franklin Parish. The Death Angel called and departed with the soul of R. M. Ward, aged merchant-planter and citizen of Franklin parish, on last Thursday at his home in Gilbert. Mr. Ward was seventy-nine years old. He was born and reared in Franklin parish. He was wed twice; first to Miss Nellie Womble and then, upon the death of his first wife, he married Miss Libbie Foster. He is the father of nineteen children, twelve of whom survive him. Mr. Ward had been ill for some time and due to his advanced age, his death came, not wholly unexpected. He was a staunch member of the Masonic fraternity and was a faithful member to the end. Mr. Ward is survived by his wife and twelve children, Mrs. W. C. Latham of Gilbert, John, R. M. Jr., Noah, Charles, Kelly, Dorothy, Ona, May, Monroe, Marjorie and Mrs. Guy Kleinpeter of Shreveport and a host of other relatives and friends will mourn the passing of this fine and good man. Interment was made in the Osborn cemetery at Como last Friday afternoon, Rev. Price, pastor of the Methodist church at Gilbert, officiating. --------------------------------------------------- The Franklin Sun Winnsboro, LA July 19, 1929 Submitted March 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd Death Visits O. E. White on Past Tuesday Was Former Resident of Winnsboro; Has Brother Here. O. E. White, aged 50, died at his home in Cedar Grove, La. Tuesday night, July 9, at 7 o'clock after a stroke of paralysis which came upon him at two o'clock Sunday morning, had rendered his entire right side paralyzed and life hung only by a slender thread from the first stroke until his heart finally stopped at the above hour. The body was taken over the L. & A. railroad Wednesday morning, to Jena and from there six miles east to old Belah church where funeral services wee conducted in the old church, conducted by the deceased man's pastor, Rev. C. A. Voyles, assisted by Rev. B. M. Garrett, a life-long friend, of Jena. Hundreds of relatives and friends gathered for the funeral, in addition to the immediate members of the family, and many came from distant towns, swelling the assemblage to one of the largest funeral gathering ever seen in LaSalle parish. Oscar Eugene White was born near where Pollock now stands in Grant parish and spent part of his bayhood (sic boyhood) in that parish where he was well and prominently known. He was married in 1902 to Miss Emmie Johnson and to this union were born five children Eusinee, Irma, Elaine and Freddie and one son, Edward. He followed sawmilling a long time after marriage and then took up the telephone business, building the first exchange the town of Verda ever had, and also was the pioneer telephone man at Jonesville, building that exchange in 1914. He also operated the Jena telephone exchange for some time, taking it over at the death of his father in 1908. From Jonesville he came to Winnsboro in 1917 and organized the White Light & Power company, which under his efficient management, grew into one of he best plants and most efficiently managed industries of any small town in the country, with service absolutely unsurpassed. When he first came to Winnsboro the light plant was a small ramshackled affair, operated from a gin. He built up the business as the town grew and sold out in 1923 to the town, remaining for a year as superintendent of the services and then moved to Alexandria where he lived until his daughter finished high school. He then moved to Shreveport and entered the mercantile business which he followed until his health failed in the winter of 1926. His health was never regained after this, being of a semi-delicate constitution all his life, and he did not again enter business pursuits, but sought and obtained employment with the Shreveport Times as traveling auditor, which position he was holding at the time of his death. Always naturally quiet, unselfish and unassuming, he lived mostly within a limited circle, confining himself strictly to hard work, his family and his business details. But finding time during the last several years of his life to work devotedly and fervently for his church, being a staunch member and leader in the Baptist church of Winnsboro, and after he moved to Shreveport he was one of the leading men of his church and it was said of him that he was"next to the preacher." During the last two or three years of his life his Christian faith seemed uppermost in his life and he was never better contended than in the quiet sanctuary of his home, or at his church, and the so-called fast and jazzy trend of the present age was repulsive to him and he struggled to bring his children up free of the entangling evils of a jazzy influence in his home. His many friends in different parts of the state were always ready to pay his just tribute as a man who made no statement that he could not back up and his word was his bond. In Franklin parish where he was known by most of the leading people, it is probably no man who ever lived here was held in higher respect and esteem. He is survived by four brothers, W. W., of Monroe; T. W., Mansfield; J. P. Winnsboro, and S. N., Jena; and three sisters, Mrs. R. W. Wagner, Shreveport; Mrs. C. W. Wilson, Jena, and Mrs. W. H. King, Ruston besides his wife and children. --------------------------------------------------- The Franklin Sun Winnsboro, LA July 5, 1929 Submitted March 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd Mrs. Fannie Elizabeth Wright Mrs. Wright Of Crowville Is Death Victim Was Made a Widow 48 Years Ago; Raised Family of Eght (sic Eight) Mrs. Fannie Elizabeth Wright, of Crowville, died at the home of her son, Lawrence, of the same community on last Thursday night. Mrs. Wright was eighty-three years old, having been born March 1, 1846, in Winn Parish. Her husband preceded her to the grave forty-eight years ago, leaving her to care for eight small children whom she raised and educated without aid from anyone. Mrs. Wright was a devout Christian and was loved and highly esteemed with whom she came in contact. Her life has been spent in services for others. She has resided in Franklin parish for a good many years. The deceased is survived by three sons, Walter, Lawrence, and Enoch, one daughter, Mrs. Dora Oliver and a multitude of other relatives and friends. Interment was made in the Crowville cemetery Friday afternoon with a large number of relatives and friends present. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. J. Albritton of Jena. ---------------------------------------------------------