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Jay Harvey Alexander - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post June 30, 1948

MADISON PARISH PLANTER PASSES AWAY LAST NIGHT
Jay H. Alexander Funeral Scheduled Thursday In Tallulah

TALLULAH, La., June 30 -- Jay Harvey Alexander, prominent Madison Parish planter, died last 
night at his home.

Born on July 4, 1878 at Shannadoan, Iowa, Mr. Alexander spent the early years of his life in 
Pottawattamie County in Iowa, coming to Madison Parish in 1910.

He was a Mason and a Methodist.

Funeral services will be held at 3:00 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Methodist Church in Tallulah, 
with the Rev. John Kilpatrick officiating. Burial will be in the Silver Cross Cemetery, by Thomas 
funeral home of Tallulah. Masonic services will be held at the cemetery.

Pallbearers are: J. R. Linton, Bill Powell, A F. Graves, J. C. Byram, W. H. Harvey, Whit Erwin, 
with alternate J. E. Furr.

Mr. Alexander is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lula M. Alexander; three sons, Dr Leonard J. Alexander 
of Wooster, Ohio; Richard P. Alexander of Tallulah and Donald H. Alexander of Wharton, Tex.; two 
daughters, Mrs. Marjorie A. Grupe of Lynwood, California and Miss Frances Alexander of Tallulah.