Extracted from The Monroe Morning World (Monroe, LA)
Sunday, February 11, 1940

H. D. CLIFTON

H. D. Clifton, 39, of Pioneer, died in a local sanitarium yesterday morning at 10 o'clock following an illness of several days.

Mr. Clifton, a native of Winn parish who had lived the past 10 years in West Carroll parish, is survived by his wife, the former Miss Zelma Fox, of Baskin; two sons, Hyman, age 11, and Dewain, 20 months; six brothers, Zelma Clifton of Ruston, Elmer and Howard Clifton of Natchitoches, Ernest Clifton of Oak Grove, and Herman and Henry Clifton of Monroe; and three sisters, Miss Mary Clifton of Monroe, Mrs. Shirley Coody of Darnell, and Mrs. C. Durdin of Pioneer.

He was born in Winn parish in 1901, but moved to West Carroll parish in 1929 and settled at Pioneer, where he was engaged in farming. He was well known in Winn and West Carroll parishes.

Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Union church at Baskin with Rev. I. A. Patton, of West Monroe, officiating. Interment will follow in the Union church cemetery under the direction of Catron-Golden Funeral home of Oak Grove.