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James Madison Ellis - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post February 19, 1949

ELLIS FUNERAL IS HELD AT TALLULAH

TALLULAH, La., Feb.19 -- Funeral services were held this morning for James Madison Ellis, 54, who 
died Thursday afternoon at a Ruston clinic,. The services were held at the St. Edward's Catholic 
Church, with the Rev. Father R. M. Maure as celebrant of the mass.

Burial was in the Silver Cross Cemetery with Crothers Funeral Home in charge.

Pallbearers were J. K. Post, A. V. Sevier, Jim Sevier, B. P. Folk, Richard Almond, J. R. Wallace, 
L. Z. Naylor and William Powell.

Mr. Ellis had been manager of a Tallulah slaughtering house f or years, and he was meat inspector 
for the city. 

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis; a son, J. M. Ellis, Jr., three sisters, Mrs. T. L. 
Creed, Mrs. Tom Holder and Mrs. Gilma Etlis, all of Port Arthur, Tex.