Obituaries:  Claude L. Anthony, Sabine Parish       A-535
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 15, 1968
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Claude L. Anthony

  Claude L. Anthony, 58, died from an accidental shotgun wound in
the head, Monday, Aug. 12, at 7 a.m., at his place just off State
Hwy. 6 west, on the Negreet Cutoff Road.

  Funeral services were held Tuesday, at 3 p.m., in the Beulah
Baptist Church, with the Rev. Paul Sullivan officiating. Burial
was in the New Siloam Cemetery, under the direction of Warren
Meadows Funeral Home.

  Mr. Anthony's nephews served as pallbearers. Honorary
pallbearers were David Bray, Rudolph Self, Elton Salter, Roy
Stroud, Howard Stroud, and Howard Wright.

  Survivors include his mother, Mrs. R. L. Anthony of Many; one
brother, Clyde Anthony of Many; and five sisters, Mrs. Carl
Googain of New Orleans, Mrs. Neva Pearson of Zwolle, Mrs. Mildred
Wright of Negreet, Mrs. Emma Lee Delano of Alaska, and Mrs. Helen
Williams of Shreveport.

  Mr. Anthony's mother told Deputy Alfice Brumley, who
investigated the accident, that he had left that morning with a
.12 gauge shotgun, apparently to go to the corn patch to shoot
crows. He had made it to the back corner of the patch, and was
attempting to crawl through a fence, when the gun accidentally
discharged. He was killed instantly. Sabine Parish Coroner, Dr.
J. Lane Sauls also investigated the accident.