Obit: Dorcas Foretta Brown, Grant Parish La
Submitted by Houston Tracy, Jr

The Colfax Chronicle
November 5, 1898

Former librarian, Helen Sorrell, at the Grant Parish Library had gone through
some of the microfilm of the newspaper files of the Chronicle and made copies
of obituaries and/or news items, which led to death.
These were found in a folder on the book shelf at that library on a research
trip there 13 February 1999.
Copies were made and then extracted to post here in the LaGenWeb archives for
Grant Parish and Rapides Parishes.
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Obituary - Brown

     Near Montgomery, Grant Parish, La. at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, 1898,
Mrs. Dorcas Foretta Brown, born in Rapides Parish, Dec. 18, 1872, departed
this life, aged 25 years, 10 months and 18 days.
     She was the daughter of Wilson Prestridge of Ward 6, Grant Parish, La.
and went to her reward above which her great faith had seized and steadfastly
held to her dying hour.
     Sister Floretta, as she was familiarly known to her parents, relatives
and friends, was a devout Christian, daughter, a kind sister, and a quiet
sincere friend.  Her trials and afflictions were many, but she bore them all
with Christian fortitude.
     She was buried at the Summerfield Tabernacle graveyard, and many friends
surrounded the grave to join in saying "Farewell, but not forever."  She
leaves a father, step-mother, two brothers, two sisters and a sweet
birght-eyed little five year-old daughter (Not named) to mourn her loss.