T. J. Rice, Sr., Burial Held At Sardis Wednesday
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Submitted by Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483
Date Submitted: Feb. 02, 1999


T. J. Rice, Sr., Burial Held At Sardis Wednesday

(From the Winn Parish Enterprise, December 14, 1950)


Thomas Jefferson Rice, Sr., 83, who died Tuesday, December 12, 1950 at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. H. W. Harrington, Winnfield, Rt. 3, was laid to
rest Wednesday, December 18, in the Sardis Cemetery near Atlanta.

Funeral services were held at the Sardis Baptist church at 2:30 o'clock with
Rev. W. C. Bounds and Rev. E. B. Barton officiating.  Arrangements were under
the direction of the Southern Funeral Home.  Members of the Masonic Lodge were
pallbearers.

Mr. Rice was born August 4, 1869 in Natchitoches Parish.  He has resided in
Winn Parish the greater part of his life, and was affiliated with the Sardis
Baptist Church and a member of the Eastern Star Masonic Lodge No. 151, Free
and Accepted Masons.

He is survived by three sons, T. J. Rice, Jr., V. E. Rice, and L. P. Rice, all
of Winnfield; three daughters, Mrs. H. W. Harrington of  Winnfield, Route 3,
Mrs. Edna Warden of Fredricksburg, Texas, and Mrs. Bell Evans of Winnfield;
one sister, Mrs. J. C. Collier of Grayson; 22 grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.

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