Obituaries: Ada Machen Wallace Newsom, 1925, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 19, 1925 Winn Parish Enterprise

Mrs. A. H. Newsom

The many friends of Mrs. A. H. Newsom (nee Ada Machen) will be grieved to
learn of her untimely death which occurred at her home in Arcadia at 4:15
o'clock last Friday morning after a few days illness from pneumonia.

Mrs. Newsom was the daughter of the late Judge M. F. Machen and spent most of
her life here in Winnfield.  She was twice married.  First to Mr. Oliver
Wallace, of Winnfield, and second to Mr. A. H. Newsom of Hickory Valley, one
child being born to each union.

Her surviving relatives are a daughter, Miss Louise Wallace of Crossett, Ark.,
her husband, Mr. A. H. Newsom of Arcadia, a son, Hugh Newsom of Arcadia,
her mother, Mrs. Anna Machen, and sister, Mrs. Wesley Crumps of Crossett, Ark.

Mrs. Roy Newsom and Mrs. J. H. Hart of Monroe and Delhi, and three brothers,
Mr. Frank Machen of Shreveport, Mr. Henry Machen of Houston, Texas, and Mrs.
Tom Machen of El Dorado, Ark.

Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Arcadia and accompanied
by her family and a number of sorrowing friends from Arcadia and Homer, her
body was laid to rest in the Cemetery at Ruston at 5 p.m. last Sunday.  Those
attending the funeral from Winnfield were: Mesdames C. M. Swanson, E. J.
Byrnes, P. C. Mosley, Miss Anna Belle Swanson, Mr. Edward Byrnes, Mrs. John
Mosley, Mr. John T. Mosley, Miss Nettie Bernstein, and Mrs. E. E. Kidd.

To the bereaved ones we extend our deepest sympathy.