Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Monday, July 1, 1968

JAMES DAWSON WILSON

MANY -- James Dawson Wilson died in a Many hospital Sunday afternoon. He was 78 years old.

Survivors are his widow; one son, Oda Wilson of Florien; two daughters, Mrs. Ruby Durrett of Hornbeck and Mrs. Mertie Self of Florien; one sister, Mrs. Lizzie McInnis of Lake Charles; one brother, Elijah Wilson of Toro; one half-brother, Manuel Savell of Toro; twenty grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday afternoon in Warren-Meadows Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Robert Graham and the Rev. Lynn Jones officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Carmel Cemetery.