Obituaries: Lucinda Kinney Gorham, 1948, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 8, 1948 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites Held Jan. 4 For Mrs. Lucinda Gorham

Funeral services for Mrs. Lucinda Gorham, 77, well known in Winn Parish as
"Aunt Cinda" Gorham, were held at the Gorhamtown Baptist Church on Sunday
afternoon, January 4, with the Rev. Alwin Stokes and Rev. Dyess officiating. 
Burial was in the Gorhamtown Cemetery under direction of Edmonds Funeral Home.

Mrs. Gorham, widow of Robert S. Gorham, who died in 1918, passed away at her
home in East Winnfield Saturday morning, January 3, after an illness of
several years.  She had been confined to her bed for the past five years.

She was born in Louisiana on November 13, 1870 and was reared in Van Zandt and
Smith Counties, Texas.  She moved to Winn Parish about 1900 and ha lived here
since that time.  On December 1, 1901 she was married to Robert S. Gorham.  A
member of the Baptist Church since childhood days, Mrs. Gorham was at the time
of her death a member of the Old Union Baptist Church in Winn Parish.

Surviving are four sons, M. W. Gorham and Aaron Gorham of Winnfield, A. R.
Gorham of Shreveport and R. J. Gorham of Jonesville; one brother, A. M. Kinney
of Edgewood, Texas.

Pallbearers were Paul Ward Davis, Hiram Gorham, Harris Kinney, Joe Kinney,
Wilma Jordan, Robert Edgar Gorham, M. W. Gorham, Jr., and Louis Snow.