Obituaries: S. M. Abel, 1943, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: December 9, 1943 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites For S. M. Abel Held Here December 8th

Soloman Morgan Abel, 66 years of age, died at the Riverside Sanitarium in
Monroe, La., Tuesday morning at 3 o'clock after a long illness.  Funeral
services were held at the Davis Funeral Home in Monroe at 8:30 A.M. Wednesday
by Rev. P. M. Carroway, of West Monroe and burial was in the Winnfield
Cemetery at 11:00 A.M. Rev. Harvey B. Hysell of Winnfield conducted the
services at the cemetery.

Acting as pallbearers were: W. T. Murray, S. C. Shaw, H. V. Dunford, A. L.
Smith, Burton Williams, and Houston Smith.

Born in Winnfield February 22, 1877, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Abel, now
deceased, Mr. Abel was educated int he local schools, after which he completed
a commercial course at Centenary College, Jackson, La.  He served as deputy
clerk of court in Winnfield before he accepted a position as land agent with
the T & G Lumber Company here in 1918.

He was a member of the town council of Winnfield under the W. F. Cooper
administration, during which period the city hall and opera house, that was
destroyed by a storm in 1935, was built.  Another public position he held
while in Winnfield was that of secretary of the police jury at the time the $
17,000 dyke across the Dugdemonia was constructed.

Since moving to Grant Parish, he has been a member of the school board, and
was one time president of the board.  He was also chairman of the welfare
board of Grant Parish.

A member of the Methodist Church, he was chairman of the Rochelle Methodist
Church official board at the time of his death.

He is survived by his widow, the former Miss Belle Barr, daughter of the late
Daniel C. Barr who was a prominent member of the Louisiana Conference of the
Methodist Church; three sons, Morgan Abel, of Philadelphia, Pa., J. Stanley
Abel of New Orleans, and S. M. Abel, Jr., of Ansley, La.; one daughter, Mrs.
W. P. Renwick, of Monroe; one brother, P. K. Abel of Winnfield; one sister,
Mrs. J. J. Mixon of Natchitoches, La.