Obituaries: Emma Oakes Grigsby, 1939, Winn Parish, LA
Submitter: Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
Source: Winnfield News-American 
Date: July 28, 1939
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Mrs. Emma Oakes Grigsby Dies At Her Shreveport Home

Funeral Services Held at Shreveport Last Saturday

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Oakes Grigsby, 77, who died late Friday at her
home in Shreveport, were held at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Osburn Funeral
Chapel with Dean R. E. Smith officiating.  Interment was at the Forest Park
Cemetery.

Mrs. Grigsby, widow of Smith Grigsby, was born in Selma, Alabama in 1861.  She
had lived in Shreveport for the past 26 years, moving there from Arcadia.

She is survived by seven children and seven grandchildren.  The children are
Mrs. Roland C. Gibbs and Mrs. George W. Morgan of Shreveport; Mrs. Kate L.
Bragg of Corpus Christi, Texas; Wiley S. and Paxton H. Grigsby of Shreveport;
William T. Grigsby of New Orleans; and Garland O. Grigsby of Lake Charles.

Grandchildren are Frank Wright and Martha Grigsby of Winnfield; Bryn B. Gibbs
of Shreveport; Ms. A. C. Coorpender of Homer; Mildred and Sarah Grigsby of New
Orleans, and Emily Jo Morgan of Shreveport.