Obituaries:  Charles Martin Pynes, Sabine Parish       P-520
Source:  El Dorado Evening Times, El Dorado, Ark., Sep 25, 1951
Submitted by: Sue Woodford/Carl Beals
              swoodbea@open.org




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Charles Martin Pynes

  Charles Martin Pynes, son of Lewis A. Pynes and Nancy A. Peace
Pynes, was born September 11, 1897, in Sabine Parish, La., and
died September 25, 1951, in El Dorado, Arkansas.

  Mr. Charles M. Pynes of 274 North Smith Avenue, El Dorado, Ark.,
Deputy Union County tax assessor, died of a heart ailment,
shortly before noon today. Death came in a local hospital, where
he was taken early yesterday morning, when stricken suddenly at
his home, before breakfast.

  Although his condition was regarded as serious from the
beginning, he was reported to have shown improvement early today.

  Pynes was well known to many residents of the county, having
served as deputy tax collector, and head of the local office of
the state revenue department, before becoming deputy assessor. He
was prominent in Masonic circles. Among his survivors are his
wife, Mamie McGough Pynes; his mother, Nancy Ann Peace Pynes; and
his sisters, Ola Pynes Lee, and Lela Pynes Smith. Funeral
arrangements will be announced later by Hall Mortuary. Charles
Martin Pynes will be interred in the Arlington Cemetery, El
Dorado, Arkansas.