Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Thursday, January 8, 1953

MRS. REBECCA JANE SHIPMAN

WINNSBORO, Jan. 8. (Special) -- Mrs. Rebecca Jane Shipman, 81, well known local resident, died this morning in a Rayville clinic.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 10 a. m. in the chapel of the First National Funeral Home with Rev. Merrick officiating. Interment will follow in the Coax cemetery near Baskin.

She is survived by one son, John Shipman, Yokum, Tex.; two daughters, Mrs. C. H. Williams, Rayville; Mrs. A. H. Wiggins, Natchitoches; two brothers, A. A. Evans, Winnsboro, Joe Evans, Baskin; one sister, Mrs. Deal Summers, Baskin; five grandchildren, J. A. Wiggins, Waterproof; P. A. Wiggins, New Orleans; C. H. Wiggins, Shreveport; H. C. Wiggins, Houston; Mrs. C. A. Marlette, Jr., Rayville; and eight great-grandchildren.