Obit: Joshua I. Keyes, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the June 10, 1949 Winnfield News-American

Joshua I. Keyes Interred At Sardis Thursday P.M.

Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 3 p.m. at the Sardis Baptist
Church for Joshua Ivy Keyes, 70, who died at his home on the Atlanta Road at
approximately 
10:30 a.m. Wednesday immediately following a heart attack.

Mr. Keyes was born in Taylorsville, Miss., and came to Winn Parish in 1896,
remaining her until his death Wednesday.

Officiating at the funeral were Rev. F. M. Shows, assisted by Rev. H. J. Mott,
pastor of the Laurel Heights Baptist Church.  Pallbearers were R. L. Roy, Jack
Smith, Herman Barton, Bill Rice, H. A. Cogley, and Ray Taylor.  Interment was
in the old Sardis Cemetery.

Mr. Keyes was preceeded in death by his wife several years ago, and is
survived by the following six sons:  Ivy, Archie, Eugene, Roy, and Josh, Jr.,
of Winnfield; Vester, of Tallulah; five brothers, W. B. of Winnfield, Rev. J.
H. Keyes and W. M. Keyes of Winnsboro, and H. A. Keyes of Fresno, Calif.

Honorary pallbearers at the funeral were Johnny Holmes,  Ed Grigsby, Ray
Foster, Clyde Sherwood, Kenneth Williams, Carl Smilty, and Ernest Spikes.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)