Obituary of LAVINIA SNOW FLOYD, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm 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.





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Date:   October 20, 1927

Headline:  Mrs. Floyd Dies as Result of Auto Accident Tuesday

Mrs. Lavinia Snow Floyd, who was seriously injured when an automobile driven 
by her daughter, Mrs. Barney Henderson, was thrown from the gravel road into 
a ditch in Jena Tuesday morning of last week, died Friday in the sanitarium 
at Alexandria.

Mrs. Floyd was injured about the body and it is thought that internal 
complications set in after she was conveyed to the sanitarium.

She was a devout member of the Baptist church and had been an ardent worker 
in the church for more than fifty years.  Born in 1863, she was 64 years, 9 
months, and 11 days old at the time of her death.  In 1878, she was married 
to W. B. Floyd, who proceeded her to the grave several years ago.

Surviving Mrs. Floyd are the following sons and daughters:  Ben and Alex of 
Jena; Homer, Duggie and Butler of Good Pine; Mrs. Lois Edwards, Jena; Mrs. 
Lydia Henderson, Jena; and Mrs. Ellis Ward, of Good Pine.

Funeral services were held at the Midway Baptist Church, Rev. J. H. Smith, 
officiating, interment being made at the Jena Cemetery at 4 o'clock.

JENA TIMES, October 13, 1927  (describing the auto wreck)

Headline:  Two Women Critically Injured in Auto Wreck Here Tuesday Morning

(Late reports from the Alexandria sanitarium, are to the effect that Mrs. 
Floyd's condition is critical.  A telephone message to Jena at noon Thursday 
stated that her death was expected momentarily.)

Mrs. Clara Reams, aged 78, is in the Charity Hospital in Shreveport in a 
critical condition as a result of an automobile accident which occurred in 
Old Jena Tuesday morning.

According to the occupants of the car in which Mrs. Reams was riding and 
which was driven by Mrs. Barney Henderson, a young boy named Meyers, driving 
a Fort touring car, attempted to pass them near the overhead bridge on the 
Rhinehart-Jena Road.  A car coming in the opposite direction caused Young 
Meyers to sway his car into the Henderson car, throwing it off the road into 
a ditch, resulting in the Ford sedan, driven by Mrs. Henderson being badly 
demolished and badly bruising Mrs. reams, Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. W. C. 
Floyd, also an occupant.

The three women were conveyed to the office of Dr. W. H. Floyd in Jena, where 
upon examination it was found that Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Floyd were badly 
bruised and lacerated and Mrs. Reams had a broken thigh as well as several 
bruises.  Mrs. Floyd was conveyed to the Alexandria sanitarium where an X-ray 
picture was made, although no serious implications were found.  Mrs. Reams 
was rushed to the Shreveport Charity Hospital and it is not thought that she 
will live, due to the seriousness of the many bruises about her body and her 
old age.

The accident occurred about 8 o'clock Tuesday morning.