Obituaries:  Mahuldah Jane Smith Gates, 1937, Winn Parish, LA.
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The Winnfield News-American
Friday, October 15, 1937

"Mrs. M. Jane Gate Dies At Home of Son In Alexandria"

"Mrs. Mahuldah Jane Gates, age 65 years, widely known and related
throughout Winn Parish, died at the home of her son, J. W. Gates, 1714
Yale Street, Alexandria, at 6:45 a.m. Thursday, October 7.  Mrs. Gates
is survived by three sons, J. W. Gates, Alexandria; H. V. and S. H.
Gates, Houston, Texas;  one daughter, Mrs. Howard French, Dodson;  four
sisters,  Mrs. P. Branch, Montgomery, La.;  Mrs. Z. Z. Pepper, Mrs. J.
Smith and Mrs. J. H. Simmons, Sikes, La., and six grandchildren.

Services were held from her son's residence in Alexandria, at 10 a. m.
Friday, October 8, with the Rev. E. E. Colvin, pastor of the Calvary
Baptist Church officiating.  Interment was made in Friendship cemetery."