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John Willoughby Middleton - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post April 6, 1943

JOHN W. MIDDLETON OF TALLULAH WILL BE BURIED TODAY

TALLULAH, April 6-(Special) -John Willoughby Middleton, 81 years of age, a resident of Madison 
Parish for a number of years, died in a Monroe hospital Sunday night after an illness of about 
two weeks. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the, McKie-Crothers Funeral 
Chapel, with the Rev. Henry A. Rickey, Methodist minister officiating. Interment will be in the 
Silver Cross cemetery here.

Educated in England, Mr. Middleton was for a number of years a missionary in Africa and China. Later 
for a number of years he was engaged in a vice crusade in this country. Then for a while he traveled 
extensively over the United States painting pictures and lecturing.

Mr. Middleton is survived by his wife, Mrs. Audrey Barnett Middleton, and seven children: Richard 
Elma of Decatur, Ill., John Edson of the United States Army, Audrey Katherine, a sergeant in the WAAC; 
Gertrude Lenore, Elsie Margaret, Flora Elizabeth and Frances Ellen Middleton, all of Tallulah, and by 
two grandchildren.