The Longview Daily News, Weds., Sept. 4, 1935:

Mrs. Emma Jane FLANAGAN, 76, widow of Sam H. Flanagan, former postmaster here at the 
turn of the century, died Tuesday afternoon in Montgomery, Alabama where she had been 
making her home in the past few years with daughter Mrs. George M. Browden. Funeral 
services will be held at about 5:00 Wednesday afternoon when the train bearing her 
body here from Montgomery arrives.

Mrs. Flanagan is survived by three daughters, Mrs. George M. Browden and Mrs. Gus E. 
Warren of Montgomery, Alabama; and Mrs. W.H. Yarrell of Shreveport; and two sons Sam 
H. Flanagan and John C. Flanagan of Houston. She was a cousin of Col. Tracy Flanagan. 
She was also an aunt of Mrs. Horace Ware of Longview.

Although gone from here since 1902 when her family moved to Shreveport, she will be 
remembered lovingly by her many friends and family.

Arrangements will be in charge of Foreman’s and burial will be at the family plot at 
Grace Cemetery where the body of her husband was brought for internment at the time 
of his death.