Obituaries:  Marquette Miller, Sabine Parish       M-460
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 7, 1936
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net




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The Sabine Index - Marquette Miller

  7 Feb 1936 - J. T. Stoker and Marquette Miller were killed in a
car accident on the Natchitoches-Coushatta highway last Sunday
morning, auto apparently overturning several times.  The fatal
crash occurred early Sunday morning.

  A few minutes after the accident Clark Jackson of Natchitoches
saw the tangled wreckage, stopped to investigate, finding Stoker
and Miller unconscious, rushing them to the Natchitoches sanitarium.
Miller died almost immediately after admission to the hospital.
Stoker died at eleven o'clock Sunday morning.  Neither victim
regained consciousness after the accident and exact circumstances
surrounding the fatal accident are not known.

  Funeral services for James Thedford Stoker were held Monday at
2:30 p.m. at the Fort Jesup Baptist church, Rev. J. M. Pate
officiating.  Interment was in the Ft. Jesup.  Theddie, as he
was known by his many friends, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Stoker of Ft. Jesup, had been connected with Sabine State Bank
for the past seventeen years as bookkeeper, in which capacity he
was highly esteemed by the officers and directors of that
institution and by his many friends.

  Mr. Stoker is survived by his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Stoker of Ft. Jesup; four brothers, M. R. Stoker of Many, Evie
of Ft. Jesup, DeWitt of Robeline, E. R. of Baton Rouge; three
sisters, Mrs. Jim Smith of Robeline, Miss Vera Stoker of Baton
Rouge, and Miss Oleta Stoker of Many.

  Funeral services for Marquette Miller was held  at Antioch
Baptist church  Monday at 1:00 p.m., Rev. J. M. Pate officiating.

  Marquette was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dess Miller of Dess, La.,
and a valued employee of the Curtis Motor company of Coushatta.
Surviving Mr. Miller are is parents,  Mr. and Mrs. Dess Miller of
Dess, La., one brother, Tony of Memphis, Tenn., three sisters, Mrs.
L. L. Curtis of Coushatta, Mrs. Ponder Salter of Clare, Miss
Juanita Miller of Dess.