From: To: Subject: OBITUARY - Arch Doughty Date: Sunday, June 03, 2001 8:25 PM Obituary of ARCH DOUGHTY, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 902 Kilgore Court, Allen, TX, 75013, doug324@aol.com. From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La. Clippings at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La. Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for allowing the following to be added to the Archives. ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Date: October 15, 1931 Headline: Arch Doughty is Called by Death Saturday Night Sub-Headline: Well Known Resident of Jena Dies at Home; Buried Sunday Mr. Arch Doughty, aged 83 years, died at midnight Saturday night at his home in Midway. Mr. Doughty was a devout member of the Midway Baptist Church, and was one of the well known citizens of the Jena community. He had been suffering for some time with a heart ailment, which at his age, could not be conquered by medical care. Mr. Doughty was born December 19, 1848. On February 12, 1877, he was married to Miss Louisa McClure, to which union was born a large family of children. Mrs. Doughty survives her husband. Funeral services were held Sunday, Rev. W. M. Enterkin, assisted by Lee Brooks and Rev. L. D. Posey, conducted the last rites in the presence of a large host of friends and relatives. Interment was made in the Nolly Memorial Cemetery at Jena. Besides his widow, Mr. Doughty is survived by the following children: Mrs. B. C. Alexander and Mrs. A. Floyd of Jena; Mrs. W. C. Hollaway, Mrs. Nim McCartney and Mrs. Frank Albritton, of Tullos, and Mrs. G. W. Coleman, of Haughton, La., daughters, and the following sons, L. R. Doughty, L. J. Doughty, S. A. Doughty, and Henry Doughty, all of Jena. He was preceded in death by the following brothers and sisters Dave Doughty, Mrs. Henrietta Bradford, Mrs. Lizzie Clark and Mary Jane Doughty.