JAKE WILLIAMSON OBITUARY. WINN PARISH, LA. Contributed by Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If you are searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. WAR HERO JAKE WILLIAMSON IS BURIED MONDAY Winn Parish's most decorated World War Two hero, Jake Williamson, died suddenly in Natchez, Miss., Saturday at 5 p.m., August 14, 1971. He was 55 years of age. A native of Wyatt, La., he was a retired logging contractor and was employed by the late Chester Campbell in the logging business. Funeral services were held in Southern Funeral Home Chapel, Winnfield, Monday at 10 a.m. with Rev. Billy Smithart and Rev. James Gorham officiating. Burial was in Sanders Chapel Cemetery near Calvin. Williamson is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Judy Hutsell and Mrs. Hazel Graves, both of Dallas. The late Winn Parish Historian H. B. Bozeman devoted his Article No. 160 to Sgt. Jake Williamson's war recod. Mr. Bozeman wrote: "Among those listed in the Winn Parish Enterprise World War II Service Record book is T-Sgt. Jake Williamson of General George (Blood and Guts) Patton's Second Armored Division, who the picturesque general called his "One Man Army" during his sweep through German in 1944-45. Williamson was credited with more and higher citations than any other man from Winn Parish during World War II--The Silver Star with Oak Leaf Clusters. This is the highest medal given combat servicemen except for the Congressional Medal of Honor. He also held the Purple Heart Medal, Presidential Citation, the Blue Gun Infantry Combat badge, Seven Battle Star Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal and several other service awards. Williamson and a companion were credited with killing more than 50 Germans during on skirmish, and he was called Patton's 'One Man Army from Winn Parish'." Williamson was an orphan and made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Chester Campbell of Winnfield, La. For his war heroics, he was honored on the Jimmy Durante Show. Bozeman stated "had our Jake Williamson had the combat record he has under a General more popular with the Pentagon swivel chair brass than Patton, Jake would have had the President loop over his head long ago, the silken ribbon with the Congressional Medal dangling down on his breast. Most of you remember that Patton was a fighting General--and like all fighting Generals, was not loved by the non-fighting , but higher ranking Generals in the Pentagon." (Most of the above was copied from either the Thursday, August 19, 1971 Winn Parish Enterprise-News American, or Winn Parish As I Have Known It, Article No. 160, by the late, great Winn Parish Historian Harley B. Bozeman, who published his weekly column in the Enterprise for many years.)