Obituaries:  Sam Jones Byrd, Sabine Parish       B-630
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 3, 1951
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net


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The Sabine Index - Sam Jones Byrd

  3 Aug 1951 - Last rites for Sam Jones Byrd, 45, who was
fatally injured in a car wreck June 21, were conducted at 10 a.m.
Monday, June 23, at Pisgah Baptist church by Rev. J. P.
Fortenberry. Interment was in Pisgah cemetery under the direction
of Hixon funeral home.

  Pallbearers were George Woolley, Wiley Woolley, Herman McNeely,
Wilson McNeely, J. P. Koonce and Clarence Byrd.

  Surviving relatives include: The parents, Mr. and
Mrs. D. Byrd of Toro, two brothers, Amos of Toro and Taylor of
Rosepine; five sisters, Mrs. Maude Slay, Hornbeck, Mrs. Bertie
Simmons, Evans, Mrs. Essie Dupree, Shreveport, Mrs. Sudie An
Gordy, Shreveport, and Miss Blanche Byrd, Toro.