Melanie Levy, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Jan Harville
Date: March 17, 2011

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Rapides Parish Louisiana Archives Obituaries
Melanie Levy, 
November 18, 1897

The Louisiana Democrat  November 24, 1897
The Louisiana Democrat.
Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
November 24, 1897
Page 3; Column 2

Killed by a Runaway Team.

Mrs. Melanie Levy, a former resident of this parish, was killed a
few miles from Dallas, Texas, last Thursday. It appears that she
was one of a party who had been out during the day gathering 
pecans. As the returning party came within a few miles of the 
city, a team of horses which had been left standing by the 
roadside, became frightened at the bicycles and wheeling, ran in 
the direction of the buggies, which had just gone by. On 
approaching the read buggy, occupied by Mrs. Levy and Mrs. Weil,
the runaway team ran over the buggy and its occupants, with the
effect of shattering the vehicle, seriously injuring Mrs. Weil 
and killing Mrs. Levy.

Mrs. Levy was about 42 years of age, widow of the late David 
Levy, of Cheneyville, and a daughter of Jonas Weil, also 
deceased. She leaves a daughter, about 17 years of age, to mourn 
her premature decease. The deceased is also a niece of Mrs. 
Bernard Ehrstein, at whose residence the remains rested until 
they were interred in the Jewish cemetery, Pineville, La., on 
Sunday afternoon, beside those of her predeceased husband.

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