Funeral services for Solomon Morgan Abel of Rochelle, who died Tuesday in the hospital were held in Monroe Wednesday morning at 8:30 o'clock with the Rev. P. M. Caraway of West Monroe officiating and were concluded at eleven o'clock at the Winnfield cemetery where interment was made. The Rev. H. B. Hysell, pastor of the First Methodist Church here, officiating at the concluding rites.
The deceased was the land agent of the Tremont Lumber Company at Rochelle, and he had held that position since about 1912 when he resigned as a deputy for his brother, P. K. Abel who was then clerk of court of Winn Parish. In 1918 he moved to Rochelle when the general offices of the Tremont Lumber Company were transferred there.
Mr. Abel was a member of the Methodist Church and was active in church and civic activities of his section. At the time of his death he was a member of the Grant Parish school board, which he had served as president for a number of years.
While a resident of Winnfield he served on the Board of Aldermen during the administration of Mayor W. F. Cooper, and at the time the old city hall, that was destroyed in 1935, was built. He also served as secretary of the Winn Parish Police jury when $17,000 was appropriated for the construction of the dike across Dugdemona swamp, marking the beginning of good roads in Winn Parish.
He married Miss Belle Barr, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. Dan C. Barr, prominent in north Louisiana Methodism, by whom he is survived in addition to three sons, Morgan Abel of Philadelphia, Pa., J. Stanley Abel, New Orleans, and S. M. Abel, Jr., Ansley; one daughter, Mrs. W. P. Renwick, Monroe, one brother, P. K. Abel of Winnfield, and one sister, Mrs. J. J. Mixon, Natchitoches.
Pallbearers for the funeral services included W. T. Murry, of Rochelle, S. C. Shaw of Colfax, A. L. Smith, H. W. Dunford, Burton H. Williams, and Houston Smith, of Winnfield.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, December 10, 1943
The deceased was the land agent of the Tremont Lumber Company at Rochelle, and he had held that position since about 1912 when he resigned as a deputy for his brother, P. K. Abel who was then clerk of court of Winn Parish. In 1918 he moved to Rochelle when the general offices of the Tremont Lumber Company were transferred there.
Mr. Abel was a member of the Methodist Church and was active in church and civic activities of his section. At the time of his death he was a member of the Grant Parish school board, which he had served as president for a number of years.
While a resident of Winnfield he served on the Board of Aldermen during the administration of Mayor W. F. Cooper, and at the time the old city hall, that was destroyed in 1935, was built. He also served as secretary of the Winn Parish Police jury when $17,000 was appropriated for the construction of the dike across Dugdemona swamp, marking the beginning of good roads in Winn Parish.
He married Miss Belle Barr, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. Dan C. Barr, prominent in north Louisiana Methodism, by whom he is survived in addition to three sons, Morgan Abel of Philadelphia, Pa., J. Stanley Abel, New Orleans, and S. M. Abel, Jr., Ansley; one daughter, Mrs. W. P. Renwick, Monroe, one brother, P. K. Abel of Winnfield, and one sister, Mrs. J. J. Mixon, Natchitoches.
Pallbearers for the funeral services included W. T. Murry, of Rochelle, S. C. Shaw of Colfax, A. L. Smith, H. W. Dunford, Burton H. Williams, and Houston Smith, of Winnfield.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, December 10, 1943
Funeral services for Solomon Morgan Abel of Rochelle, who died Tuesday in the hospital were held in Monroe Wednesday morning at 8:30 o'clock with the Rev. P. M. Caraway of West Monroe officiating and were concluded at eleven o'clock at the Winnfield cemetery where interment was made. The Rev. H. B. Hysell, pastor of the First Methodist Church here, officiating at the concluding rites.
The deceased was the land agent of the Tremont Lumber Company at Rochelle, and he had held that position since about 1912 when he resigned as a deputy for his brother, P. K. Abel who was then clerk of court of Winn Parish. In 1918 he moved to Rochelle when the general offices of the Tremont Lumber Company were transferred there.
Mr. Abel was a member of the Methodist Church and was active in church and civic activities of his section. At the time of his death he was a member of the Grant Parish school board, which he had served as president for a number of years.
While a resident of Winnfield he served on the Board of Aldermen during the administration of Mayor W. F. Cooper, and at the time the old city hall, that was destroyed in 1935, was built. He also served as secretary of the Winn Parish Police jury when $17,000 was appropriated for the construction of the dike across Dugdemona swamp, marking the beginning of good roads in Winn Parish.
He married Miss Belle Barr, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. Dan C. Barr, prominent in north Louisiana Methodism, by whom he is survived in addition to three sons, Morgan Abel of Philadelphia, Pa., J. Stanley Abel, New Orleans, and S. M. Abel, Jr., Ansley; one daughter, Mrs. W. P. Renwick, Monroe, one brother, P. K. Abel of Winnfield, and one sister, Mrs. J. J. Mixon, Natchitoches.
Pallbearers for the funeral services included W. T. Murry, of Rochelle, S. C. Shaw of Colfax, A. L. Smith, H. W. Dunford, Burton H. Williams, and Houston Smith, of Winnfield.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, December 10, 1943
The deceased was the land agent of the Tremont Lumber Company at Rochelle, and he had held that position since about 1912 when he resigned as a deputy for his brother, P. K. Abel who was then clerk of court of Winn Parish. In 1918 he moved to Rochelle when the general offices of the Tremont Lumber Company were transferred there.
Mr. Abel was a member of the Methodist Church and was active in church and civic activities of his section. At the time of his death he was a member of the Grant Parish school board, which he had served as president for a number of years.
While a resident of Winnfield he served on the Board of Aldermen during the administration of Mayor W. F. Cooper, and at the time the old city hall, that was destroyed in 1935, was built. He also served as secretary of the Winn Parish Police jury when $17,000 was appropriated for the construction of the dike across Dugdemona swamp, marking the beginning of good roads in Winn Parish.
He married Miss Belle Barr, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. Dan C. Barr, prominent in north Louisiana Methodism, by whom he is survived in addition to three sons, Morgan Abel of Philadelphia, Pa., J. Stanley Abel, New Orleans, and S. M. Abel, Jr., Ansley; one daughter, Mrs. W. P. Renwick, Monroe, one brother, P. K. Abel of Winnfield, and one sister, Mrs. J. J. Mixon, Natchitoches.
Pallbearers for the funeral services included W. T. Murry, of Rochelle, S. C. Shaw of Colfax, A. L. Smith, H. W. Dunford, Burton H. Williams, and Houston Smith, of Winnfield.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, December 10, 1943
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