This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------BACDBF1F89F3656C5C8AD9AD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 [email protected] --------------BACDBF1F89F3656C5C8AD9AD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="mrtnwp51.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="mrtnwp51.txt" Obituaries: William Pearl Martin, 1951, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. From: November 29, 1951 Winn Parish Enterprise Funeral is Held Here Tuesday for W. P. Martin, 64 William Pearl Martin, 64, retired Winnfield petroleum wholesaler, retailer, and automobile dealer, died at 2 a.m. Monday in Tri-State Sanitarium, Shreveport. He had been in failing health about 10 months. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist Church here, with Dr. W. L. Holcomb, pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. P. M. Caraway and Rev. Alwin Stokes. Burial was in the family plot in Winnfield Cemetery under direction T. J. Drewett Funeral Home in Mansfield. Mr. Martin, a native of Wadesboro, North Carolina, was born June 20, 1887, the son of the late Samuel P. and Mary Ann Martin. He grew to young manhood in North Carolina and came to Winnfield at the age of 19 as an employee of the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway. He was an engineer with L & A from 1909 to 1922. He quit the railroad to go into business here, operating Martin's Service Station and the Standard Oil wholesale agency here, which he did for 28 years. He also operated the Hudson car agency here from 1937 to 1950, when he retired from active business. Shortly before his retirement, he build the buildings now housing the A & P store and Court House Pharmacy on Jones Street in Winnfield. He was a member of the First Baptist church, a Mason, and a former member of the Elks. Mr. Martin was married in September, 1915, to the former Miss Ethel Allen, who survives him. Other survivors are one son, Dr. Roy V. Martin, two daughters, Mrs. Harold Swilley of Winnfield and Miss Virginia Martin, a student at Louisiana State University; one sister, Mrs. Fred Horne, of North Carolina; five brothers, John Beaman Martin, Clarence T. Martin, and A. B. Martin, all of North Carolina, T. C. of Minden, and E. S. of Winnfield, Route 1; six grandsons and a host of nieces and nephews. Active pallbearers were Ray McEachern, Sam Brian, Jewell Maxey, Kelly Peterson, Frank Shaw, Jr., Eugene Love, Elmo Frazier, and Dr. J. S. McClane. Honorary pallbearers were J. R. Heard, Jesse Corley, Dr. Roy Wright, E. C. Frazier, Ira Cole, Dr. John T. Mosley, Dr. George Rodgers, A. L. Sullivan, Dr. A. W. Radescich, W. H. Cameron, Mayor D. C. Allen, H. L. Turner, W. O. Averett, Mack L. Branch, B. W. Bailey, J. E. Carter, J. W. Capps, L. R. Thomas, A. Leonard Allen, H. E. Machen, Rayford Lewis, George H. Harrison, G. W. Jones, J. R. Madden, and Carroll Aiken. Among out of town guests attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Martin and Leon Gray, Minden; Mrs. Mae Martin, Springhill; Mrs. T. J. Drewett, Mansfield; Mrs. Joe Gregg, Mrs. Charlie Jones, Miss Ella Nash, and Mrs. J. C. Breaux, all of Baton Rouge. --------------BACDBF1F89F3656C5C8AD9AD--