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John C. Watts Sr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, March 4, 1976

Funeral services for John C. Watts Sr., of Tallulah, were held at 2 p.m. day at Crothers Funeral 
Home Chapel with the Rev. Crawford Williams officiating. Burial was in Providence Memorial Cemetery 
in Tallulah.

Mr. Watts died Saturday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Jackson, Miss. after a lengthy 
illness.  He was a  native of Kentucky, a resident of Madison Parish for 58 years, a retired farmer 
and a U.S. Army veteran of World War I.

Survivors include one son, John C. Watts, Jr. of Tallulah; one daughter, Mrs. David Ghrigsby of Tallulah; 
six sisters, Mrs. Faye Harmon of Tallulah, Mrs. Marie Jordan and Mrs. Margie Cox, both of Columbus, Miss.; 
Mrs. Beatrice Vance of Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Rilda Lester and Mrs. Lillie Leonard, both of Harrodsburg, Ky. 
and five grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Lloyd Rogan, George Rogan, Robert Craft, Ray Jobe, Terry Craft and Clement Dahlhauser.