Obituaries: Adlea White Estes, 1943, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 12, 1943 Winnfield News-American

Mrs. T. J. Estes Dies Here Last Friday At Daughter's Home

Native Texan, Had Made Her Home Here For 15 Years

Mrs. T. J. Estes, 73, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. B. Bozeman,
here Friday and was buried in the Winnfield cemetery Tuesday afternoon. The
last rites were conducted at the First Baptist Church by the pastor, Rev. H.
H. McBride, and Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.

The deceased was born in Milam County, Texas, in 1869. Her father was Joseph
White, who headed a colony of Americans from Gallatin County, Tennessee, that
settled west of the Brazos River in what is now Milam and Falls Counties,
Texas, in 1836. Her mother was Mary Ann Comstock, the first American child
born in what is now Liberty, County, Texas, about 1830.

Surviving are the two sons, W. O. and T. W. Estes of Jujuy, Argentina, South
America; five daughters, Mrs. H. B. Bozeman of Winnfield, Mrs. A. B. Pullen
and Miss Tedd Estes of Mexico City, Mexico, Mrs. James A. Horton of Coushatta,
and Mrs. S. D. Summerford of Baton Rouge; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Massingale of
Rosebud, Texas, and Mrs. John Stewart of Calvert, Texas.