Obituaries: Eva Elizabeth Meredith Moss, 1941, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: October 17, 1941 Winnfield News-American

Mrs. E. E. Moss Dies Saturday Night At Her Home Here

Mrs. Eva Elizabeth Moss, age 90, died at her home here Saturday night
following an illness of several months.  Funeral services were held at the
First Baptist Church here Sunday afternoon at three o'clock conducted by the
Rev. H. H. McBride, pastor, assisted by the Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church and the Rev. H. B. Hysell, pastor of the
First Methodist Church.  Concluding rites were held at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
near Columbia, La., where interment was made.

The deceased was Miss Elizabeth Meredith before her marriage to Dr. Thomas A.
Moss on February 15, 1870.  Dr. Moss was a practicing physician of Columbia,
where they resided.  He preceded her in death in 1900, soon thereafter she
with her children moved to Winnfield to make their home.

Mrs. Moss was a member of the Baptist Church since early girlhood and has been
a member of the local church for the past 41 years.  She was a member of the
Meredith family, one of the pioneer families of Caldwell Parish and northeast
Louisiana.

Surviving are four sons, Judge Cas Moss, judge of the Eighth Judicial
District, A. A. Moss, attorney of Winnfield, Herbert Moss, sales manager of
the Tremont Lumber Company, Rochelle, and Joe J. Moss, of Winnfield; one 
daughter, Mrs. Ruby M. Hanks, member of the Louisiana State University library
staff, Baton Rouge; and one half-sister, Mrs. Lou Hayes of Simsboro.

Pallbearers were Casimir D. Moss, Herbert Moss, Jr., Pat G. Harrell, C. E.
Sherwood, P. Hugh Mercer, and Houston Gates.