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John Wilson Carpenter - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, May 24, 1963

Funeral Services For John W. Carpenter Held Here Wednesday; Interment In Vicksburg Cemetery

Farmer, Educator, Engineer, Civic Leader

Mr. John Wilson Carpenter, 70, died after major surgery in Vicksburg, Miss. on Monday from a heart 
condition, from which he had been suffering for many years. Although his condition was serious, 
he continued to take an active part in all civic matters of the community. He has served well his 
community, and held the esteem of all and the love of a wide circle of friends.

Mr. Carpenter has been a farmer in Madison Parish since, 1942. His farming operations cover approximately 
5,000 acres in Madison Parish. He received his degree from Mississippi State University, Starkville, Miss. 
in both Civil Engineering and Agricultural Engineering. He later taught Agricultural Engineering in Mississippi 
State University. He served as county Agent in Mississippi and worked with the Experiment Station, he 
also served as Extension Agricultural Engineer at Oklahoma A & M College in Stillwater, Okla. in charge 
of erosion control from 1930-34. He was project engineer in 1934 on the first soil erosion project in 
Mississippi throughout the South and West.

Since coming to Madison Parish he has served as President of the Louisiana Farm Bureau, the Education 
Committee and Agricultural Committee of the Tallulah Chamber of Commerce, Advisory Board of the Staple 
Cotton Co-Op Assn. He was on the Board of Directors of the La. Seed Producers Assn.; Member of Cotton 
Contact Committee; member and President of the Cotton Committee of the La. Hybrid Seed Corn Producers 
Assn. At the time of his death he was serving on the Advisory Committee on Farm Buildings and Equipment 
of Agricultural Research service, Dept. of Agriculture.

Mr. Carpenter has served as president of Madison Parish School Board and has been Vice President and a 
member for the past twenty years. At the time of his death he was Vice Chairman of the East Carroll-Madison 
Soil Conservation District Board of Supervisors. He is a charter member of the District, having been 
appointed April 18, 1944.

He was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Tallulah, serving as Deacon and Finance Committee.

He is survived by his devoted wife, Doris Harris Carpenter, one son Bridg. General John W. Carpenter, III, 
U. S. Air Force; One sister Mrs. J. W. Wallace, Edinburg, Texas; Three grandchildren, Mrs. John Swenson, 
Houston, Texas; Miss Jeanie Carpenter, and Mr. John Car-penter IV, Annapolis Maryland; Three nephews, 
Wade and Jack Wallace of Edinburg, Texas and a niece, Mrs. Joe Dizlor, McAllen, Texas

Funeral services were held Wednesday morning, in First Baptist Church, Tallulah with the Rev. Oster Daniels 
officiating. Interment was in Vicksburg, Miss. Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Ralph Loe, LeRoy Smith, G. T. Shepherd, M. A. Verhagen, E. C. Woodyear, Clay Crawford, 
Don Richardson and Robert N. Graves.

Honorary pallbearers were members of the Madison Parish School Board Supervisors of the Madison-East Carroll 
Soil Conservation District, members of his Sunday School class and the board of deacons of the First Baptist Church.