Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Friday, November 12, 1954

ELISHA L. WALLACE

PLAIN DEALING, Nov. 11 (Special) -- Funeral services for Elisha L. Wallace, 73, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Baptist Church here with the Rev. Robert Coile and the Rev. A. V. Bardwell officiating. Burial will be in the Plain Dealing Cemetery under direction of Norton's Funeral Home here.

Mr. Wallace, a lifelong resident of Bossier Parish, was a native of the Shiloh community. He had lived in the Phelps Lake community for the past 22 years.

He died Wednesday night after an illness of more than a year.

Mr. Wallace is survived by his widow; five sons, D. W. Wallace, L. B. Wallace, Claude Wallace and Leslie Wallace, all of Plain Dealing, and Roy Wallace of Memphis, Tenn.; two daughters, Mrs. Frank Abernathy and Mrs. Joe Wesson, both of Plain Dealing; one brother, Walter Wallace of Plain Dealing, and a number of grandchildren.