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Sam Scott - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post, July 16, 1942

MOUNDS RESIDENT TO BE BURIED AT TALLULAH TODAY

Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Silver Cross cemetery in Tallulah 
for Sam Scott, a planter of the Mounds community, who died last night at his home.

The Rev. Clarence Crow, pastor of the Tallulah Baptist church, will officiate. The pallbearers will 
be John Tice, Elijah Turnage, Jesse Aaron, H. L. Goins, Thad Travis and Willie Aaron. The Fisher 
Funeral Home is in charge.

Mr. Scott was 63, and had been in ill health for about two years. At one time he was employed in Warren 
county.

The deceased is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Gladys Tower of Mounds, and Mrs. Mittie Wilson of Vicksburg; 
and four sons, John Scott and Herbert Scott, both of Mounds, Sam Scott, Jr., of Vicksburg, and Earl Scott in 
the United States army.