Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Friday, March 2, 1951

REV SAM D. SLOCUM

Rev. Sam D. Slocum, 69, of 800 Jackson street, for some years a retired minister, died Friday morning after a long illness. The funeral will be held in Hall Funeral Home chapel some time Saturday morning, the time as yet undetermined. Following the service the body will be taken to Pineville for interment.

He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Miss Alice Slocum and Mrs. P. M. Dunn, Alexandria; two sisters, Mrs. L. L. Hammons, Gulfport, Miss., and Mrs. Georgia Sudduth, Reeves, La.; a brother, Robert Slocum, Lone Pine, La.; five grandchildren and on[e] great grand child.
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Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Saturday, March 3, 1951

SLOCUM

Rev. S. D. Slocum, 69, died Friday, March 2, 1951 at 8:30 a.m., at his home on Jackson street in Monroe, La. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alice Slocum of Monroe, two daughters, Mrs. P. M. Dunn of Alexandria, and Mrs. L. L. Hammond of Gulfport, Miss., five grandchildren, Mrs. T. L. LeJeune, Miss Bettie Dunn, Charles Dunn, and Bill Dunn, all of Alexandria, and Beauford Hammonds of Gulfport, Miss., one great-grandchild, Janice Hammonds of Gulfport, one brother, R. D. Slocum of Lone Pine, La., and one sister, Mrs. Sam Sudduth of Reeves, La.

The funeral service was held in Monroe this morning. Interment will be in the Greenwood Memorial Park at 2:30 p.m. today.