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Thomas P Kell - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Madison Journal April 29, 1921

Thomas P Kell

Thomas P Kell died at the Street's Sanitarium in Vicksburg last Tuesday.

He was buried in the Tallulah Cemetery the following morning at 11 o'clock. The funeral services were 
conducted from his residence in Tallulah by Rev. Henry E Spires. His funeral was attended by practically 
the entire citizenship of the parish. The local offerings were most lavish, evidencing the love and 
esteem in which the deceased was held by the people who knew him.

Mr. Kell was a native of Mississippi, having been born in Franklin County in that state 60 years ago. 
In 188x he moved to Tensas parish where he resided until 1xxx during which year he moved to Madison 
where he became prominently identified with his business, social and political life. He was a successful 
merchant and planter and conducted both businesses on a large scale. He has held several offices in 
the parish, having been a member of the legislature, and until a few weeks before his death was 
President of the Fifth Louisiana Levee District. The hospitality of his house was known to every resident 
and visitor of this section.

He leaves a wife and four children, two brothers, Albert C and A. E. Kell and three sisters, Mrs. Handley 
of Houston Texas, remaining part illegible.