Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Wednesday, August 29, 1945

BEAVER -- J. W. (Bill) Beaver, age 77, of Cheneyville, died August 17, 1945 at 10:25 p.m. at the Lett Clinic in Lecompte. He is survived by four sons, Roy, Edgar and Edward of Cheneyville, and Lloyd, a patient in the Mayo General Hospital in Galesburg, Ill.; four daughters, Mrs. J. E. Webb, Cheneyville, Mrs. J. J. Liguori, Bellmore, N.Y., Mrs. C. F. VanGossem, Bayou Rapides, and Mrs. David Durrette, Alexandria; and eight grandchildren.

Mr. Beaver was born in Mississippi June 6, 1868. At an early age he came to Rapides parish where he remained the rest of his life.

Funeral services were held Sunday, August 19, 1945 at the Beulah Baptist church with the Rev. Z. T. Sullivan officiating. Interment followed in the old Christian Cemetery in Cheneyville.

Pallbearers were Wilbur Dyer, Lester Hoyt, Rushing Jackson, Earl Rutledge, Otto Newman, and Bump Smith.