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Cecil Alton Pattison - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal September 11, 1942

Shoots Self In Head With Rifle Wednesday Night

Cecil Alton Pattison, living in the northern end of Tallulah on Chestnut Street, was found about 11:30 
Wednesday night after he apparently had shot himself in the forehead between the eyes with a .22 calibre 
rifle. His wife who was in an adjoining room, reached him a few minutes after the tragedy, and found that 
he was still alive, and remained alive about twenty minutes, but had expired when a doctor arrived. No 
cause was assigned for the act.

Pattison had lived in this vicinity for some time and this year started a crop, but after laying it by, 
sold out and moved to Tallulah. Recently he had been driving a seed truck.

Funeral services were held here yesterday under the direction of the McKie-Crother Funeral Home, and 
interment was in the Silver Cross cemetery.