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John Wesley Wroten - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, August 26, 1955

Funeral Rites For J. W. Wroten Held Sunday

Funeral services for John Wesley Wroten, age 60, were held Sunday afternoon at 4 p. m., at the First 
Baptist Church with the Rev. Irvin Cheney officiating, assisted by the Rev. E. D. Smith, pastor of the 
Willow Bayou Baptist Church. Burial followed in the Silver Cross Cemetery under the direction of 
Young's Funeral Home.

Wroten, a merchant in Tallulah for a number of years, died at his home at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, 
after a lingering illness. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and the American Legion.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Sarah Wroten; two sons, Roy Wroten, Tallulah, and John E. Wroten, Shreveport; 
two step-daughters, Sarah Frances Wroten and Sherrill Wroten, both of Tallulah ; his mother, Mrs. Ella Wroten, 
Russum, Miss.; five brothers. M. A. Wroten, Tallulah, Roy Wroten, Port Gibson, Miss., Ernest Wroten, 
Plaquemine, La., Kirkland Wroten, Vicksburg, Miss., and Richard Clark Wroten, Burl, Ind.; four sisters, 
Mrs. Ada George, Russum, Miss., Mrs. Ila Beard, Vicksburg, Miss., Mrs. Lola Bobo, Lorman, Miss., and 
Mrs. Irene Palmer, Wilson, La., and several grandchildren.