Obit: Andrew Leonard Sevier, Sr. - Madison Parish, LA
Submitted by:  Nancy Sevier Bardwell - Shreveport, La.

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From Shreveport Times, March 26, 1962
Sen. Sevier Of Madison Parish Dies
TALLULAH. March 26 (Special)
Louisiana State Senator Andrew Leonard Sevier, 67, a member of the Senate for the past
30 years, died in the Madison Parish Hospital in Tallulah about 1:30 p.m. Monday after 
a lingering illness of several years.
Sen. Sevier, a cattleman and owner of a plantation near Tallulah entered the hospital 
Monday morning shortly before his death.
He was a member of a Tallulah Law Firm, Spencer Sevier & Adams, and president of the 
Tallulah Production Credit Assn. since it was organized in 1933.
Funeral services have been set for 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Tallulah Presbyterian Church 
with the Rev. Dan Lott officiating. Burial will follow in the Silver Cross Cemetery 
under the direction of the Crothers Funeral Home.
At the time of his death, he was serving as president of tie Federal Land Bank of 
which he had been a member since 1933.
Sen. Sevier, a veteran of World War I, was a member of the Tallulah Presbyterian 
Church and a member of the Farm Credit District Board since 1950. He was a stockholder 
in both the Madison Insurance Agency and the Tallulah Finance Co.
His survivors include his widow Mrs. Irene Jordan Sevier of Tallulah; three sons, 
A. L. Sevier. Jr., Howard Sevier and Warren Sevier of Tallulah; two brothers, 
Albert Sevier Tallulah and George Sevier, Lake Charles: one sister, Mrs. Juanita 
Burton, Tucson, Ariz., and nine grandchildren.