Obituary of CECILE KNIGHT and ALLENE MANN KNIGHT, 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:  January 13, 1949

Headline:  Funeral Held Monday for Couple, Drowned Near Plaquemine Sat.

Funeral services were held Monday for a young Iberville Parish couple who 
were drowned in a boat accident near Plaquemine Saturday, Jan. 8.

Mr. and Ms. Cecil Knight, the couple, were returning to their home from a 
shopping trip when the boat capsized in Bayou Sorrel.  They were expecting 
their first child later his week.

Knight's stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Britton, who wee also in 
the boat at the time of the accident, stated that the outboard motor became 
tangled in water hyacinth and overturned.  Mrs. Knight was unable to swim and 
her husband remained in the water trying to save her.  Their bodies wee found 
less than three feet apart when they were recovered two hours after their 
deaths.

The bodies were shipped overland to Hixson Brothers Funeral Home in Jena, 
where the final services were held from the chapel.  The Reverends Clarence 
Wiley, Jonesville Pentecostal pastor, and J. O. McNear, Jonesville Baptist 
Church, officiated.  The rites were held at 2 p.m., Monday.  Interment was in 
the Jena Cemetery.

Knight was a native of Clayton, while his wife, the former Allene Mann, was 
reared near Jonesville by her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mann.