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Thomas Hugh Montgomery - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post February 17, 1947

TALLULAH MAYOR EXPIRES SUNDAY; SERVICES TODAY.
Montgomery Rites. This Afternoon In Tallulah Church

TALLULAH, La., Feb. 17-Funeral services were scheduled at the Methodist Church here this afternoon 
for Thomas Hugh Montgomery, 74, mayor of  Tallulah who died Sunday morning in Vicksburg after a heart 
attack.

The services were scheduled at 2:30 this afternoon, the Rev. J. F. Kilpatrick officiating, assisted by 
the Rev. Dean Maurer, Episcopal minister. Interment will be in the Silver Cross Cemetery with the following 
pallbearers: Tom Bradley, Francis Ward, Jim Sevier, Lancaster Kell, Cliff Erwin, and Jerome Post. Honorary 
pallbearers will be E. E. Williamson, C. N. Buckalew, Cliff Adams, Bart Eisley, R. M. Almond, W. D. Womack 
and P. O. Benjamin.

Born in Brookhaven, Mayor Montgomery was once sheriff of Lincoln County, Mississippi. After coming to Tallulah, 
he was employed on the police force and was elected mayor last spring.

He is survived by two sons, Thomas Hugh Montgomery, Jr. of Tallulah and Frank Montgomery of Goldonna, La.; 
two daughters, Mrs. Campbell Mize of Brookhaven and Mrs. Sear D. Daigre of Grenada; two brothers, Thaddeus 
Montgomery of  Lafayette, La., and Fred Montgomery of Brookhaven; two sisters, Mrs. Dewey Conn of Monticello 
and Mrs. Rena M. Miller of Jackson.