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Queenie Erwin - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post, August 2, 1935

TALLULAH RESIDENT PASSES AWAY HERE

Miss Queenie Erwin aged 45, for many years a resident of Tallulah, died In Vicksburg last 
night after an illness of several months.

She was a member of the Tallulah Methodist Church, and active in the Woman's Missionary 
Society.

Funeral services will take place in Tallulah this afternoon at the Methodist Church with 
Rev. C. K Smith officiating. Interment will be in Silver Cross Cemetery.

Miss Erwin is survived by two brothers, M. P. Erwin of Lake Providence and Ernest Erwin, 
chief engineer on a merchant-marine vessel in Baltimore; and a sister Mrs. Susan Hart of 
Lake Providence.

From Madison Journal August 9, 1935

FUNERAL SERVICE IS HELD FOR MISS ERWIN

Miss Queenie Erwin, 47 years old, a native of this parish, having been born on Omega Plantation 
and making her home here during all of her life, died last Thursday night at the Vicksburg 
Sanitarium after an illness of many months.

She was the daughter of the late M. P. Erwin and Mrs. Matilda Erwin and is survived by a sister, 
Mrs. Susan Hart of Lake Providence and two brothers, M. P. Erwin of Lake Providence and 
Ernest Erwin of the U. S. Marines.

A member of the Methodist Church of Tallulah, Miss Erwin was active in the missionary society. 

Funeral services were held Friday from the Methodist Church with interment in Silver Cross cemetery. 
Her pastor, Rev. C. K. Smith officiating.

Active pallbearers were Steve Pierce, J. N. Harvey, W. A. Gilpin, Mertie M. Bloom, William Powell 
and William Wallace Ziegler.

Honorary pallbearers were A. J. Sevier, Dr. G. W. Gaines, W. D. Ziegler, Jas. A. Moberley, E. T. Purnell, 
James Gilfoil, R. K. Boney and Jas. R. Linton.