Individual Details

Marriage

A wedding of more than usual interest to Shreveport was that of Miss Helen Ethel Furr, youngest daughter of Dr. W. P. Furr, retired physician and planter of Jackson, Miss., and G. S. Cheesman, prominent real estate man of Shreveport, which took place Thursday at 2 o’clock in the Methodist parsonage at Marshall, the Rev. W. Ramsey officiating. The young couple will make their home in Shreveport. Mrs. Cheesman, while a newcomer in Shreveport, has made a host of friends here by her charming and pleasing personality. Besides other social talents, Mrs. Cheesman is an accomplished musician. On her bridal tour, she was garbed in an attractive traveling suit of beige with accessories to match.
The Times, Shreveport, Louisiana, February 14, 1927

Death

Ill health apparently was the motive in the death of Glenn S. Cheesman, 61, well-known Shreveport real estate dealer who, according to Dr. Charles S. Boone, deputy Caddo parish coroner, ended his life in a bedroom of his home at 331 Stoner avenue about 7 a.m. Sunday. Cheesman shot himself in the head with a .38 calibre pistol, Dr. Boone said. Mrs. Cheesman, who discovered the body of her husband on the floor of the bedroom immediately after hearing the fatal shot, told Dr. Boone that Cheesman had been in poor health and under the care of a physician recently. In a note addressed to his brother, Dale Cheesman, of Houston, Texas, Cheesman complained of his health and said that he planned to go to a Houston hospital for several months treatment. Funeral services will be held at 4 p. m. Monday at the First Baptist Church. The Rev. M. E. Dodd, pastor, and the Rev. Roland Crowder, associate pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in the Greenwood cemetery under direction of the Welman Funeral Home. Cheesman was active in the real estate business here from the time he entered it shortly after World War I until the time of his death. The office of the Cheesman Realty Co. was located at 722 Louisiana avenue. Among the many transactions handled by Cheesman were the leasing of the Arlington Hotel for 99 years in 1937 for about $300,000; the sale of the Belmont building at Marshall and Travis streets, in 1921 for $30,000, and the recent sale of the Calanthe Temple on Texas avenue for $65,000. Cheesman was active in the development of Shreveport’s Agurs section. At one time he was agent for the old Home Owners’ Loan Corporation in Shreveport. Born Oct. 10, 1888, in Garrison, Texas, Cheesman came to Shreveport while still in his teens. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and of the Lowe-McFarlane post of the American Legion. Pallbearer will be J. C. Osteen, Baylor Culpepper, Lloyd Comegys, C. V. Woodward, S. J. Yealock, W. D. Smith, Harry Weston and I Weinstein. Surviving Cheesman are his widow, Mrs. Etta Patrick Cheesman: two step-children, Mrs. Ross H. Worley and John A. Stuckey, both of Shreveport; his mother, Mrs. Jenne Cheesman of Houston, Texas: one brother, Dale C. Cheesman of Houston: one sister, Mrs. Bradford Hearne of Houston; three grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.
The Shreveport Journal, Shreveport, Louisiana, November 21, 1949