The Fulton News - September 17, 1959
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  Elijah Crass, World War I Veteran, former resident of Water 
Valley, died at 7 p.m. Sunday night at the Kennedy General 
Hospital in Memphis.

  Mr. Crass was a brother of Mrs. Orie Crochran Sain and Hershel
Crass of Water Valley.

  Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Jackson 
Bros. Funeral Home in Dukedom, with the Rev. L. E. Moore, pastor 
of Bayou de Chain Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial was 
in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.