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Daniel Hall Allen - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, May 3, 1957

Funeral Services For D. H. Allen Held Tuesday

Prominent Resident, Mayor For 20 Years And Tax Assessor 12 Years

Funeral services for Daniel Hall Allen, 75, former mayor of Tallulah and tax assessor of Madison Parish 
who died at his home at 11:15 p. m. Sunday was held Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m at the First Methodist 
Church with the Rev. William F. Mayo officiating. Interment followed in the Silver Cross Cemetery under 
the direction of Young's Funeral Home.

He was mayor of Tallulah for 20 years and tax assessor 12 years, but spent the last years of his life in 
retirement. Ile died following a long illness.

A native of Kosciusko, Miss., he had lived in Tallulah for 59 years. He was a member of the local Masonic 
Lodge and the First Methodist Church. He was also a Royal Arch Mason.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Virginia White Allen, Tallulah; one son, Dr. Dean H. Allen, Tallulah; 
two sisters, Mrs. Mabel Atkinson, Brookhaven, Miss., and Mrs. Maggie Sevier, Gulfport, Miss., and three 
grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Rufus T. Yerger, R. W. Gandy, Jr., Don Sevier, Jim Gilfoil, H. C. Sevier, Jr., M. A. Wroten, 
E. H. Fisher and A. N. Duke.

Honorary pallbearers were Capt. F. W. Schatz, R. N. Ware, Jr., Henry Sevier, Sr., T. A. Cagnolatti, 
Dr. W. P. Park, Dr. George M. Webb, L. J. Kathan, D. C. Johnson, Sheriff E. D. Coleman, Rod Naylor, 
Dr. Jack Atkinson, Dr. Robert Atkinson, George S. Yerger, Jr., Maxwell Yerger, W. P. Sevier, Jr., Jas. R. Linton, 
W. M. Scott, Jr., T. A. Smith, Fred Peterkin, James W. Davis, H. C. Massey, A. D. Patterson, R. R. Spigener, 
C. E. Hester, J. E. Neill, Sr., Warren Patrick, Jesse Anderson and J. F. Griswold, Jr.