Obituaries: Millie Clementine Hearne Shell, 1938, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: May 5, 1938 Winn Parish Enterprise

Mrs. M. C. Shell, 94, Succumbs At Her Home Here

Funeral Services Will Be Held at Hoods Mill Firday, 11 a.m.

Mrs. Millie Clementine Hearne Shell, 94 years of age, died at her home here
Wednesday night following a long illness.  Funeral services will be conducted
at the Mt. Pleasant Church near Hood's Mill post office, Chatham, Friday
morning at 11 o'clock.  The pastor, Rev. E. O. Hearne, of Chatham, will
officiate.  Mrs. Shell, at the time of her death, still retained her
membership in the Mt. Pleasant Church.

Acting as pallbearers will be Mrs. Shell's eight grandsons.  James Shell,
Bastorp; Jake Shell, West Monroe; Burniss Shell, Chatham; W. E. and John
Wesley Shell, Jr., of Kelly; Dudley, Denton, and Dennis Shell, of Winnfield.

Mrs. Shell was born in Campbell County, Georgia, May 25th, 1844.  She came to
Louisiana in 1867 and settled in Jackson Parish where she married W. P. Shell,
also a native of Georgia, and they reared a large family.  Her husband died in
1915 and in 1925 she came to live in Winnfield.  She was the youngest of a
family of 13 children.

Surviving are the following sons and daughter: J. T. Shell, Bastrop; Miss
Alice V. Shell, Winnfield; C. L. Shell, Dodson; J. J. Shell, West Monroe; S.
B. Shell, Bastrop; W. E. Shell, Kelly; Rev. J. W. Shell, Pittsburg, Pa.; and
D. F. Shell, Winnfield.  Also surviving are 19 great grandsons.