Obituary: June 1949, Franklin Parish, LA
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The following obituaries are listed below:

E. W. Otwell
T. L. Smith

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The Franklin Sun      Winnsboro, LA        June 2, 1949
Submitted Jan. 2006 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
E. W. Otwell Rites Are Held Thursday
 
Final services were held for E. W. Otwell, 70, Ft. Necessity, who died at his home in the 
early morning of Wednesday, May 25, after a long illness. Services were held in the Otwell 
home by the Rev. C. B. Hall, pastor of the Winnsboro Baptist church, at 11 o'clock Thursday 
morning. Interment followed in the Ogden cemetery.
 
He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Dulcie Otwell and Mrs. J. G. Robinson, both of 
Winnsboro, and five sons, Earnest and Jake of Winsnboro, E. W. Otwell, Jr., Natchitoches, 
Quinten Otwell, Hattiesburg, Miss., and Guy Otwell, presently a student at the L.S.U. 
medical school in New Orleans.
 
Pallbearers for the well-known parish resident were B. R. Johnston, Newt Slaughter, 
Roy Crokes, R. E. Byron, Newt Tarver and Theodore Jones.


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The Franklin Sun        Winnsboro, LA       June 2, 1949
Submitted Jan. 2006 by: Glenda Warner Boyd

T. L. Smith
 
Rites for Resident of Liddieville Set
 
T. L. Smith, 66, died Monday after a long illness in his home near Liddieville. 
Final services were held in the Boeuf River Baptist church at 10 o'clock this morning 
with the Rev. Louis B. Jones, pastor, officiating. Interment followed in the Ogden 
cemetery.
 
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Deanie Smith; three sons, A. E., James P. and 
T. L. Smith, Jr.; two step-sons, O. J. and J. I. Porter; four daughters, Mrs. Seamon 
Davis and Miss Jeanette Smith, both of Winnsboro, Mrs. J. T. Lonell, Camp Lejeune, 
N. C., and Mrs. R. F. Wiggins, of Vienna; one brother, John M. Smith, Winnsboro, and 
16 grandchildren.
 
Pallbearers were Cecil Russell, Hezekiah Bryant, Otis Ferguson, Ishmael Ingram, Alvin 
Adams and Newt Williams.
 
The First National Funeral home was in charge of final arrangements.

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