Obituaries: Lillie Williams, 1926, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: September 30, 1926 Winn Parish Enterprise

Miss Lillie Williams Killed Near Shreveport

Miss Lillie Williams, 19 year old Cedar Grove girl, was fatally injured last
Sunday night when she leaped from a car in which she and Fred Strain were
driving on the Forbing road.  The girl was taken to the Charity Hospital in
Shreveport where she died about three hours later.

Miss Williams' parents formerly lived in Winn Parish, Ward 2.  They are both
dead and she went to Cedar Grove to live with Mrs. Tullos, a sister, and was
employed as the Washington Hotel, in Shreveport.  Her remains were brought to
Winnfield for interment.

Bond of $1000 was arranged Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock for Fred Strain,
held in the Caddo Parish jail on a charge of manslaughter as the outcome of
the death Sunday morning of Miss Williams.

Strain had been held in jail since the girl's death and a formal charge of
manslaughter was filed against him Tuesday when the amount of his bond was
fixed.  Bail was provided by B. F. Holland and Mrs. J. C. Holloway of Cedar
Grove, the latter being proprietor of the Holloway Hotel where Strain resides.

Strain was the only witness to the fatal occurrence.  He told officers that
the girl leaped from his car about 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning on the Forbing
Road after he had ignored her threat to jump if he did not turn around and
take her home.  Her skull was fractured in the leap and she died at Charity
Hospital a few hours later.