Obituaries: R. L. Lewis, 1940, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 4, 1940 Winn Parish Enterprise

R. L. Lewis, 77, Local Merchant Succumbs Sunday

Last Rites Were Conducted Tuesday Afternoon At Gansville

R. L. Lewis, 77, Winn Parish's oldest active retail merchant, died at the
Mosley Clinic here December 31, 1939, with pneumonia and heart trouble.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Gansville
Baptist Church with interment in the Old Gansville Cemetery, a short distance
from where he was born December 26, 1862.  Religious rites were conducted by
the Rev. N. E. Joiner of Minden, who was assisted by Rev. Alwin Stokes and the
Rev. H. H. McBride of Winnfield.

Active pallbearers were P. K. Abel, Judge Cas Moss, Judge R. W. Oglesby, H. W.
Stinson, R. D. Cantwell, and Dr. Arthur Chopin of Baton Rouge.

For the past 47 years Mr. Lewis has been engaged in the general mercantile
business in Winn Parish.  Starting at Gansville where he was postmaster in
1892, he operated a store there for many years.  After the coming of the Rock
Island Railroad, he moved to Dodson and about 25 years ago came to Winnfield
and conducted a general mercantile business here until he was stricken with
pneumonia about two weeks ago.

Surviving are his widow; two sons, Herman of New York City and Max S. Lewis of
Griffin, Ark.; a daughter, Mrs. Luther Beene of Shreveport; step-daughter,
Mrs. Prentice Bolin, Preston, Cuba; and three sisters, Mrs. D. M. Stone and
Mrs. M. Moffett of Winnfield and Mrs. A. W. Wilson of Atlanta, besides many
other relatives.