Susan Emeline Tyson

  Noted events in her life were:

• Obituary, 1935. Mrs. Susan Emeline Lawrence, aged 87, died in Shreveport at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Geo. McQuiston, Wednesday morning at 6:40 o'clock. Funeral services were conducted at the McCook Funeral Home at 9 o'clock Thursday morning and burial was made in the Tison [Tyson] Cemetery, about 12 miles south of Winnfield at 2:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon.

The deceased is the widow of John N. Lawrence, who died many years ago. She was the daughter of James E. Tison and Bettie E. Albright. She was reared in the community of Albright's Prairie near the line of the parishes of Winn and Grant, where she lived the greater part of her life.

She was the mother of eight children, the four following survive: Edmond and Oscar Lawrence of Georgetown, Mrs. Pearl Lawrence O'Neal of Houston and Mrs. Hattie Lawrence McQuiston of Shreveport. The deceased is also survived by 16 grandchildren and one great grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Melton of Packton and Mrs. Nora Paige of Montgomery, and one brother, Barney Tison [Tyson] of Verda, La.

She was also a sister to the deceased wife of Huey P. Long, Sr., Mrs. Caledonia Tison Long.

Published in The Winn Parish Enterprise, May 30, 1935