Obit: Carrie Elizabeth Bozeman, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the January 14, 1949 Winnfield News-American

Mother of Two Local Men Dies Here Saturday

Mrs. Carrie Bozeman Buried In Winnfield Cemetery Sunday


Mrs. Carrie Elizabeth Bozeman, 82, widow of the late M. W. Bozeman, died at
the home of her son, H. B. Bozeman, here, Saturday, after several months
illness.

Funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church Sunday afternoon,
conducted by the Rev. H. H. McBride, Baptist pastor, and the Rev. Alwin
Stokes, pastor of the Winnfield Presbyterian Church.  Interment was in the
Winnfield Cemetery, under the direction of the Hixon Brothers Funeral Home.

The deceased was born in Olnye, Ill., August 7, 1866.  When she was an infant
her parents moved to St. Helena Parish, Louisiana and five years later to
Arkadelphia, Ark., where she grew to womanhood.  There she was married to M.
W. Bozeman, February 20, 1890, and in 1901 moved to Dodson, La. and to
Winnfield in 1905, where she has resided since.

She is survived by three sons, H. B.  and Eck Bozeman of Winnfield, and M. E.
Bozeman, Sr., of Montgomery, La.; two daughters, Mrs. P. J. Willis, Bossier
City, and Miss Eva Bozeman, Baton Rouge; one brother, Fred W. Eck of Pine
Bluff, Ark., and one sister, Mrs. G. A. Bennett of Alice, Texas, and 10
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

The pallbearers were D. Jack Willis, Bossier City, Welby Willis, W. L. Sowers,
M. T. Crowe, Francis Walker, and Estes Bozeman of Winnfield.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)