Obituaries: Huey Pierce Long, Jr., 1935, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: September 12, 1935 Winn Parish Enterprise

Long Buried At Capitol

Throngs View Body While Lying in State

Ceremony at Four O'Clock Today Draws Throngs of Relatives and Friends to State

Clad in evening clothes and resting on a couch within an elaborate and
expensive bronze casket the body of Senator Huey Pierce Long, former governor
and one of the leading figures in politics in this country of the past three
decades lay in state Thursday in the capitol rotunda at Baton Rouge.

An endless line of people from this state and many of the other states of the
union passed the bier in single file to gaze on him for the last time.  The
rotunda was decked with flowers and four members of the Louisiana State
University cadet band in full dress uniform stood as a guard of honor  
throughout the day.

Funeral Services

Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m. this afternoon by the Rev. Gerald
L. K. Smith, who has acted as organizer for the Senator's Share the Wealth
societies throughout the United States.  Interment will be in the lawn of the
magnificent new capitol building.

Among the throngs which crowded into Baton Rouge all during the day Wednesday
and Thursday were practically all officials of this parish, many of whom were
his close personal friends and political allies.  Baton Rouge was jammed to
overflowing and hotels and other places of accommodation were filled long
before the time of the ceremony.

Condolences

Letters and telegrams of condolence poured in from all parts of the nation. 
President Roosevelt and members of the national Senate and House of
Representatives sent messages of sympathy to the bereaved wife and children.

Winnfield Mourns Senator's Death

With flags at half mast, light standards in the business section decked with
black and purple, the latter the colors of L. S. U., Winnfield mourned the
passing of United States Senator Huey P. Long, this week.

Grief over the passing of the town's most famous citizen was freely expressed
not only by his friends but by those who were his political enemies.  His
death was seen as a regrettable calamity by all.

Miss Leila Jane Smith, manager of the Western Union telegraph office here
stated that telegrams from local citizens to WLW in New Orleans expressing
hopes for recovery of Senator Long poured in Monday.

After his death more than 100 telegrams to the bereaved family in Baton Rouge
were transmitted, including those from town and county officials.  More than
1000 words were transmitted as a newspaper story in Jackson, Tennessee, by a
local citizen.