Obit: Almeda Killing Machen (Mrs. T.D.), 1927, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by: Annette Carpenter Womack
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Winnfield News America - Friday - May 27, 1927

Mrs. Machen Died in Sherman, Tex. Monday, May 16th

   Mrs. C. M. Swanson has received a message from her brother, T. D.
Machen, of Madill, Oklahoma, telling of the death of his wife in a sanitatium
at Sherman, Texas on May 16.
  Mrs. Machen, who before her  marriage ws Miss. Almeda Killing, was born
in Winn Parish, thirty two years ago and as a bride came to Winnfield and 
resided until about ten years ago when with her husband moved away.  She
is a neice of T. J. Long of Winnfield.
  Her life was that of a devoted christian, faithful in her home and a
loving patient mother.
  Funeral services were held at Madill, Oklahoma, where interment was made
May 17.
  She is survived by her husband, T. D. Machen and four children, three
boys and one girl.

SUBMITTER'S NOTE:  Truman Machen was the son of Francis Marion Machen and his
wife Martha Milem.  He married Nelda Killen on 12 August 1909 in Winn Parish.
Francis Marion Machen is buried in the Bolton-Teagle Cemetery in Winn Parish. 
He is a brother to James Lewis Machen buried at Cypress Creek.
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