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J. Clark Byram - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Vicksburg Evening Post, March 17, 1941

CLARK BYRAM OF TALLULAH TO BE BURIED TODAY

TALLULAH, La. March 17 - J. Clark Byram, 51, well known planter of Madison Parish and superintendent of the Tallulah Baptist Sunday school was found dead in his bed Sunday morning. Death, it was said, was caused by a heart ailment.

Mr. Byram had been a resident of Oak Grove plantation northeast of Tallulah, for twenty years. He was well known and had many friends who will regret to learn of his death.

Deceased is survived by his wife, three sons, J. Clark, Jr., Gaines and George Wayne, three daughters, Mrs. J. O. Horn of Folsom, La. Mrs. G. Hunter Whitehead and Miss Betty Byram of Tallulah, three grandchildren, two brothers J. E. Byram, and Howard Byram of Alexandria, La., and five sisters Mrs. Ruby Wallace of New Orleans, Mrs. Bama Hightower of Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. Cleo Buchanan of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. Ola Allison and Mrs. Edith Eubanks of Ida, La.

Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist church this afternoon at 3 o'clock: with the Rev. L. A. Materne of Monroe, La., former pastor of the local church, officiating, assisted by Rev. Clarence Crow, present pastor, and Rev. D. W. Poole pastor of the Methodist Church here.

Pallbearers will be:

Honorary: - J. H. Renfrow. E. P. Jones, Ed Shamblin, P. D. Thigpen, Sr., W. F. Brown, W. H. Hewes, F. G. Hewes, A. J. Boswell, J. H. Alexander, Earle Read, Maxwell Yerger, G. Brown, J. L. McMullin, and R. C. Leeds.

Active:- Jesse Anderson, William Powell, R. S. Gayle, J. D. Martin, Robert Brown, all of Tallulah, and T. W. Jackson, of Waterproof, La.