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Claude Brown DeMoss, Sr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, July 7, 1961

Final Rites for C. B. DeMoss, Sr., Held Saturday

Funeral services were held last Saturday afternoon for Claude Brown DeMoss, 74, who owned and operated 
a plantation at Alsatia north of Tallulah. Services were held at the Tallulah Methodist Church at 3 p. m. 
with the Rev. Wilson Watson officiating assisted by the Rev. W. V. Sirman. Burial followed in the Rayville 
Cemetery.

Mr. DeMoss was originally from Kentucky and had lived in Richland Parish. He was a director of the Federal 
Land Bank of Lake Providence and a member of the Delhi Methodist Church.

He is survived by two sons, C.  B. DeMoss, Jr., and W. M. DeMoss , of Tallulah; two daughters, Mrs. W. H. Hanna, 
Delhi and Mrs. Bill Williams,Springerville, Arizona; two sisters, Mrs. W. H. Hosse, Alsatia, and Mrs. Jack Farmer, 
Rayville; 14 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.