Sarah Pyburn Stovall Obituary, Jackson Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483
Date: Mar. 1998

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From the March 3, 1939 Winnfield News-American

Funeral Services For Mrs. Sarah Pyburn Stovall Saturday

Mother of D. M. Stovall, Former Resident of Sikes

News of the death of Mrs. Sarah Pyburn Stovall, 87 years old, member
of a prominent family in North Louisiana, Friday, at a Ruston
sanitarium was received here the same day.

Funeral services were conducted Saturday at the Trinity Methodist
Church, Ruston, and interment was in Transport Cemetery, near
Dodson, conducted by the Rev. Guy Hicks and the deceased's great
grandson, James Stovall of Shreveport.

Mrs. Stoval was a resident of Jackson Parish all her life.  She was
born near Stovall and resided there until several years ago, when
she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. R. L. Dickerson, near Old
Vernon, in the same parish.

She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Dickerson, Mrs. W. T. Walker
of Wyatt, Mrs A. E. Douglas of DeQuincy, and Miss Hazel Stovall of
Lake Charles; two sons, W. F. Stovall of Monroe and D. M. Stovall of
Shreveport; a sister, Mrs. Manda Morris of Winnfield, and 64
grandchildren and 51 great grandchildren, some of who reside in New
Orleans.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)