Obituaries: Millie C. Hearne Shell, 1938, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: May 6, 1938 Winn Parish Enterprise or Winnfield News-American

Mrs. Mildred C. Shell Dies Wednesday at Home of Daughter

Daughter of Old South Within 20 Days of 94th Birthday


Lacking only 20 days reaching her ninety-fourth birthday, Mrs. Millie C.
Hearne Shell, died at the home of her daughter, Miss Alice V. Shell here
following a lingering illness.

Born in Campbell County, Georgia, May 25, 1844, Mrs. Shell experienced the
life that made her truly a daughter of the "old south".  She knew the city of
Atlanta when it was a mere village, she lived through the harrowing days of
the Civil War, she pleaded the cause of suffering humanity to the Confederate
officials in Montgomery when only twenty years of age, she lent her efforts
and means to the rebuilding of a torn and bleeding South, and then left the
state of her nativity to seek her fortunes in he then "west", Louisiana.  In
her adopted state she found suffering and want and her hands and heart were
rededicated to the task of helping the people among whom she lived.

Mrs. Shell with her husband settled in Jackson Parish at old Mt. Pleasant,
near Chatham, after making the trip from Atlanta to Mobile by train and from
there via Mississippi Sound, Lake Pontchartrain, Mississippi River, Ouachita
River to Riverton, which is within a dozen miles of the place that became the
family homestead.

Her husband, W. P. Shell, died in 1915, and in 1925 she moved to Winnfield
with her daughter, Miss Alice V. Shell.

Funeral services will be held this morning at the Mt. Pleasant Methodist
Protestant church, of which she was a member, and interment will be in the
church cemetery with the Rev. E. O. Hearne of Chatham conducting the services. 
These services will be under the direction of Walsh Funeral Directors.  

She is survived by her eight children, seven sons and one daughter.  They are
Judge J. T. Shell, Bastrop; Alvie V. Shell, Winnfield; C. L. Shell, Dodson,
member of Winn Parish School Board; J. J. Shell, West Monroe; S. B. Shell,
Bastrop; W. E. Shell, Kelley; Rev. J. W. Shell, Pittsburgh, Pa.; D. F. Shell,
Winnfield.