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Francis McRae Ward - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, February 22, 1963

Francis Ward Dies Suddenly At Home Here

Francis McRae Ward, 59, died suddenly at his home here about one o'clock Wednesday morning. His sister, 
Miss Annie Ward, reported that he called her about twelve o'clock and she called a doctor who arrived 
before he passed away, but death occurred shortly after the doctor arrived.

Francis, as he was familiarly known, was a life-long resident of Tallulah, the son of the late Mr. and 
Mrs. Tom Ward, who were the owners for many years of the Crescent Plantation. For a number of years he 
was an employee of the Delta Cash Wholesale Grocery before this firm went out of business, and later an 
employee of the Police Jury and the Sheriff's Department.

He was an active worker in the Citizen's Council affairs which he managed for quite a while. He worked 
with the Civil War Centennial Committee and was very much interested in historical research and had 
accumulated much information and data in this regard. He was a communicant of Trinity Episcopal Church.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10:00 A. M. at the Trinity Episcopal Church here with the Rev. 
William Parkerson officiating. Burial will be in the Silver Cross Cemetery under the direction of 
Cupit-Young Funeral Home.

Survivors are his two sisters, Miss Annie Ward and Miss Margaret Ward.