Obituary: Susan Francis Martin Drewett, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Michael Drewett, 6321 Clegg Rd., Pensacola, FL 32526

Date: Dec. 8, 1998
Source: Winn News American, April 15, 1938
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Mrs. Susan Frances Drewett Dies Late Tuesday Afternoon

   Mrs. Susan Frances Drewett, age 81, died at her home here late
Tuesday afternoon following an extended illness. Mrs. Drewett had been
confined to her bed most of the time since she fell and broke her hip
about three three years ago.
   
   Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the First Baptist
church, conducted by Rev. Dr. B. C. Land, pastor, assisted by Dr. G. A.
Morgan, pastor of the First Methodist church, and interment was in the
Sardis cemetery, six miles south of Winnfield.

   The deceased was a native of Mississippi, moving to the Sardis
community with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Billy Martin. She was
married to the Rev. Tillman E. Drewett, a Baptist minister, who was
killed by a bolt of lightning. Following her husband's death, Mrs.
Drewett and her family in 1900 moved to Winnfield, where she has
continuously resided.

   She is survived by four sons, A. T. Drewett and W. U. Drewett of
Winnfield, L. E. Drewett of Lecompte, and I. V. Drewett of Verda.
Another son, Tom Drewett, Mansfield, died a few years ago.

   Serving as pall bearers at the funeral rites were the grandsons of
the deceased, A. T. Drewett, Jr., Colvin Drewett, W. Otho Drewett,
Harold Drewett, Walter Drewett and Roy Drewett.

(NOTE: Susan F. Martin Drewett was the daughter of William J. Martin and
Sophia A. Cross Martin. She was born Oct. 27, 1856, and died April 12,
1938. When her husband was killed by lightning, she was left to raise
their five sons alone, for she never remarried. Her husband, Rev.
Tillman E. Drewett, 34 years of age (d.22 June 1885), had, evidently, a
premonition of his death: he had told others that he wouldn't be with
them long.)