Mary Mertice Sikes

  Noted events in her life were:

• census, 1920, Franklin, LA. Name: Mary Sikes
Home in 1920: Police Jury Ward 9, Franklin, Louisiana
Age: 18 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1902
Birthplace: Louisiana
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Father's name: Gace A
Father's Birth Place: Louisiana
Mother's name: Ludia
Mother's Birth Place: Louisiana
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Sex: Female
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes

• census, 1930, Grant Parish, LA. Name: Myrtis Murry
Home in 1930: Police Jury Ward 4, Grant, Louisiana
Age: 27
Estimated birth year: abt 1903
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Spouse's name: C T

• Obituary, 1970, Grant Parish, LA. MRS. MARY MERTRICE MURRAY

DRY PRONG, La. - - Mrs. Mary Mertrice Murray, 68, of Dry Prong died Thursday afternnon in a Winnfield Hospital.

Survivors include two sons, Leo Murray and Herman Murray of Dry Prong; two brothers, Floyd Sikes of Haywood, Calif.; and Lloyd Sikes of Olla; three sisters, Mrs. Winnie Day of Winnsboro, Mrs. Minnie Serio of New Orleans, and Mrs. Willie Mae Bogosian of New Britian, Conn., and eleven grandchildren.

Funeral services were to be at 2 p.m. today in the Liberty Chapel Methodist church at Williana with Rev. Richard Debusk officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery under direction of Edmonds Funeral Home of Jonesboro.

• Tombstone.

Mary married Clyde Thomas Murry, son of George Washington Murry and Minnie Alice Nugent, on 3 Jul 1923 in Winnsboro, Franklin, LA. (Clyde Thomas Murry was born on 12 Dec 1902 in Williana, Grant Parish, LA, died on 1 Apr 1987 and was buried in Liberty Chapel Cemetery, Williana, Grant Parish , LA.)