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Ernest William Terry - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal July 21, 1949

E. W. Terry Rites Held Here Monday

Funeral services for Mr. Ernest William Terry, 53, who died while enroute to a Little Rock hospital 
Saturday night of a heart attack, were held Monday morning at 10 o'clock from the Crothers Chapel, 
with Rev. Shirley Briggs officiating. Interment followed under the direction of Crothers Funeral Home 
in the Silver Cross Cemetery.

Mr. Terry, who resided at Quimby, had lived in this territory since 1942. He was employed by the Missouri 
Pacific Railroad as Section Foreman, having been with that railroad for the past twenty years. He was a 
member of the Tallulah Baptist Church, member of the Masonic Lodge, veteran of World War I, and a member 
of the Railroad Brotherhood of Maintenance of Ways.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mattie Terry, one daughter, Mrs. J. C. Byram; one granddaughter, Terry 
Byram, all of Tallulah; two sisters, Mrs. Katie Mardest, Fayette, Miss., and Mrs. Rena Foster, Jackson, Miss.

Pallbearers were: Ilar Osborne, Joe Wilkins, J. O. Pemberton, Hunter Whitehead, Leander Grace, Quinton 
McLemore, Lewis Farr, Nelson Goss.