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Wallace Alfonse Lancaster - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, March 17, 1944

Wallace Alfonse Lancaster Passes Away At His Home Here

Funeral Services Held March 10 for W. A. Lancaster

Wallace Alfonse Lancaster died Thursday, March 9 at his plantation home south of Tallulah at the age 
of 72. He was born in Smith County, Miss., and has lived in this	parish since 1927, where he has been 
engaged in planting since that time.

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon, March 10 at four o'clock from the Tallulah Methodist Church, 
with Rev. Henry A. Rickey officiating.

Mr. Lancaster was a Mason and member of the Methodist Church. Interment followed in Silver Cross Cemetery 
with pallbearers, Warren Buford, Lyn Naylor, Jim Parker, E. H. Fisher, Elmer Neill and R. B. Watts.

He is survived by his wife and two sons, Herman B. Lancaster of Tallulah, and MM 2/c Wallace P. Lancaster 
of Camp Pendleton, Calif.; one grandson, S 2/c Wallace E. Lancaster of Great Lakes Training Station; one 
sister, Miss Maggie Lancaster of Bolton, Miss. and seven brothers, Walter of Wisner; Johnny of Bolton, Miss.; 
Claude of Waterproof; Oscar of  Dermott, Ark.; Edgar of Tallulah; Otto of Ferriday, and C. D., of Bolton, Miss.