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List of Names in file:
Mrs. S. Alice Wright

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Submitter: Greggory E. Davies
Date: 20 Jun 2004
Source: Winnfield News American
March 27, 1942 Mrs. S. Alice Wright Dies Sunday P. M. At Her Home
Here

Funeral Services held Monday Afternoon At First Baptist Church

Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Alice Wright, 84, widow of the late
Jim D. Wright, who died at her home here Sunday afternoon at three
o'clock were held at the First Baptist Church Monday afternoon at
three o'clock. The rites were conducted by the Rev. H. H. McBride,
pastor, assisted by the Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, and interment was made in the Winnfield
Cemetery.

Mrs. Wright was born in Smith County, Mississippi, and when a very
small child moved to Winn Parish with her parents, John Murphy Long
and Sarah Elizabeth Long.  They settled in what is now Corinth
Community, later moving to Winnfield.  She was a member of the First
Baptist Church and was one of the charter members of the present
church organization, being one of the organizers.

She was married to Jim D. Wright, a merchant and livestock dealer,
who died in 1900.  Surviving them are three sons, Dr. Roy Wright of
New Orleans, James D. Wright of Winnfield, and William H. Wright of
Baton Rouge; three daughters, Mrs. E. B. Harrell of DeQuincy, Mrs.
D. W. Harrell of New Orleans, and Mrs. Florence Dalton of Winnfield.

Mrs. Wright was the sister of the late Huey P. Long and aunt of the
late Senator Huey P. Long.

Pallbearers included Sheriff Bryant Sholars, Judge Cas Moss, G. M.
Walsworth, Walter W. Allen, of Winnfield, Dr. C. M. Heflin of Baton
Rouge, Rudolph Bernstein of Monroe, and J. W. Fowler of Shreveport.
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