Obituaries: Frances Woodruff Long, 1938, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: July 8, 1938 Winnfield News-American

Mrs. Frances Long Claimed By Death Tuesday Evening

Funeral Services Held Wednesday Afternoon At Baptist Church

Mrs. Frances Woodruff Long, wife of the late William E. Long, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. L. F. Morrison, here Tuesday evening at eight o'clock,
following an illness of several weeks.

On March 13 of this year Mrs. Long celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday and on
the occasion was visited by her children and many friends and relatives.  
Despite her years she was active and keenly interested in her family until
her last illness.

She was born in Merriweather County, Georgia on March 13, 1853.  When she was
three years old she moved with her father, David Woodruff, her mother having
died in the meantime, to Louisiana and settled in what is now the Zion
Community of Winn Parish.  After her father joined the Confederate forces to
fight in the Civil War she made her home with an older sister, Mrs. Ann
Wright.

October 1, 1869, at the early age of sixteen she was married to William Edward
Long, brother of the late Huey P. Long, Sr., and uncle of the late Senator
Huey P. Long.  The year after her marriage she joined the Baptist Church and
was baptized with her husband's mother, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Long, when the
weather was so cold that the officiating minister had to break the ice in Blue
Springs, a small stream near old Corinth Church to administer the church
ordinance.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock at the First
Baptist Church here conducted by the Rev. B. C. Land, pastor, assisted by the
Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. G. A.
Morgan, pastor of the First Methodist Church.  Interment was in the Winnfield
Cemetery.

Pallbearers were grandsons of the deceased and included John Bell, Dorrice
Warner, Jack Tannehill, Morley Long, Carl Long, Murphy Tannehill, Guy Martin,
and Dr. A. D. Long, Jr.

Surviving Mrs. Long are eight children, five sons, R. H. Long, Winnfield, Wade
H. Long of Jackson, Dr. A. D. Long, Sr., of El Paso, Texas, W. E. Longo f
Texas, and J. W. Long of El Paso, Texas; three daughters, Mrs. Lula Tannehill
of Winnfield, Mrs. J. T. King of Rising Star, Texas, and Mrs. L. F. Morrison
of Winnfield.