Obituary of CORNELIA ABRUTHNOT NESOM, 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.

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Date: October 11, 1951

Headline:  Last Rites are held at Pine Grove for Mrs. Cornelia Nesom

Mrs. Cornelia Arbuthnot Nesom, age 74, succumbed Thursday, October 4, at 6:30 
p.m. in the Wiginton Memorial Hospital in Hammond following a long illness.

Services were held in the home Saturday, October 6, at 9:00 o'clock a.m. and 
at the Harrell Cemetery, Pine Grove, Louisiana, at 11:00 o'clock.  Reverend 
J. M. Wilks officiated, assisted by the Reverend Benedict Galloway and 
Reverend George Horn.  Mr. Eugene Hallum, accompanied by Miss Rita Rogers 
rendered special music.

Mrs. nesom was the widow of the late George Wilburn Nesom of Tickfaw, and was 
the granddaughter of the Reverend John S. Arbuthnot, the first Methodist 
minister to serve the City of Hammond.  She will long be remembered by her 
loved ones and many friends for her shining example of Christian service to 
her fellow man.  She was especially active in the Methodist Church where she 
had served as a chairman of the Board of Trustees, Sunday School 
Superintendent, Member of Board of Stewards and long and faithful devotion to 
the work of the Women's Society of Christian Service. She made her home a 
bulwark for the work of the church and her doors were always open to those 
promoting the Lord's work. 

Mrs. Nesom's cheerful disposition, warm friendliness and Christian fortitude 
were a guiding influence on her family and on the hundreds of persons who 
came to experience her motherly counsel.  She had many and varied interests 
in life, and one hobby, to which she devoted much time, best expresses the 
inward beauty of her soul.  Her exquisite flowers were known far and wide and 
when she could be persuaded to enter them in competition, they were the 
recipients of many awards.  The abundance of delicate flowers presented at 
the final service for Mrs. nesom were a silent but an expressive tribute of 
the love of the numerous friends for this truly great lady.

Serving as pallbearers were Mr. Frank Nesom and Mr. Kelvin Nesom of Baton 
Rouge; Mr. Robert Faller of Tickfaw; Mr. Wilburn N. Stilley, Mr. Lokey 
Faller, Mr. William D. Allen, Mr. Luther Dyson, and Mr. Roy Hyde, all of 
Hammond.  The Thomas Funeral Home of Hammond was in charge of the 
arrangements.

Surviving the deceased are two sisters, Mrs. John J. Brew of Lincoln, 
Nebraska, Miss Tomanna Arbuthnot of Alexandria, one brother, Mr. S. V. 
Arbuthnot of Manifest.  Four daughters, Mrs. D. V. Jenkins of Tickfaw, Mrs. 
Carlton Faller of Hammond, Miss Lucille Nesom of Tickfaw, Miss Ruth Nesom of 
Houma; one son, Mr. Guy W. Nesom of Natchitoches, and six grandchildren.