Obit: George M. Wyatt, 1926, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by: Lewis F. "Frank" Martin, PO Box 1871, Jena, LA 71342
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SOURCE: Winnfield News-American, 1 Oct 1926


GEO. M. WYATT OF COULEY DIES AT HOME OF DAUGHTER

A Resident of Couley for Forty Years and Prominent In Community and Parish
Affairs


George M. Wyatt, age 74, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Henry Chandler
in St. Maurice last Saturday afternoon about 1 o'clock following a stroke of
paralysis. He together with his wife were guests in the home of Mrs. Chandler
for the weekend when he was taken ill very suddenly.

Mr. Wyatt was born in Jackson Parish April 9, 1852 and moved with his parents
to Winn Parish when a young man locating in the Beech Creek community from
which he moved some years later to Couley where his home was at the time of
his death.

In 1880 Mr. Wyatt and Miss Ada Lee Everett were married, to which union seven
children were born, who are, G.M. and L.M. Wyatt of St. Maurice, Paul Wyatt of
Homer, Charles Wyatt of Charleston, S.C., Mrs. C. Little of Castor, Mrs. Henry
Chandler of St. Maurice, and Mrs. [unreadable] Canterberry of South Mansfield.
Mrs. Wyatt died in 1896. In 1900 he was married to M[??] Mollie Dickerson and
to them was born one child, Glynn Wyatt, who resides in St. Maurice.

Mr. Wyatt was a member of one of the pioneer families of this section of the
state and was among the most progressive planters of Winn Parish. For twenty
six years he was Postmaster of Couley having lived there for more than forty
years during which time he has worked untiringly for the upbuilding of his
community and the general welfare of his neighbors. Besides being postmaster
Mr. Wyatt conducted a general merchandise store and managed his large farm.

He was a member of the Baptist church, his membership with the Pine Grove
Church of Couley. Faithful in all duties to Gopd and man, Mr. Wyatt will be
missed by the people of his community as one of their leaders and on whom they
could depend at all times. In his death the family sustains the loss of a
loving and counseling husband and father, the community a loyal and
progressive citizen and the parish a leader in its affairs.

Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Johns of Natchitoches Sunday
afternoon at four o'clock and the remains were laid to rest in the Couley
cemetery amid the sorrowing of many relatives and friends.

Besides his wife and children he is survived by three sisters, Mrs. P.F.
Chandler of Montgomery, Mrs. Sallie Norton of Springhill, and Mrs. R.B.
Kennedy of Serepta, and nine grandchildren.