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Andrew Jackson Sevier - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post, August 26, 1941

SHERIFF SEVIER TO BE BURIED AT TALLULAH TODAY
Esteemed Leader of Parish Dies Suddenly Yesterday

TALLULAH, La., Aug. 26 - Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 4:30 for Andrew 
Jackson Sevier, sheriff of Madison Parish for nearly forty years, who died suddenly 
yesterday afternoon.

The services will take place at the home here, with the Rev. J. Dean Maurer, Episcopal 
rector, officiating.

Active pallbearers will be S. B. Bettis, J. N. Harvey, T. A. Smith, P. O. Benjamin, 
A. J. Boswell, Frank McCaffery, Horace Maxwell, and W. L. Rountree.

The honorary pallbearers will be all the citizens of Madison Parish.

Born in Claiborne county on January 30, 1872, Mr. Sevier had moved to Madison Parish at the 
age of five years, and lived there since that time.

At the age of 24 he started his career as peace officer, and subsequently he became known 
as "Dean of Louisiana sheriffs." With opposition only twice, he had been elected for eight 
consecutive terms.

In 1905, Sheriff Sevier was married to Miss Mary Day of Vicksburg. He was senior warden in 
the Episcopal Church at Tallulah.

During the years of his service in Madison Parish, he had become an outstanding leader and 
was one of the most beloved men of northeast Louisiana.

Surviving are his wife; one son, J. Donald Sevier of Vicksburg; one daughter, Mrs. Allan 
Nadler, of Plaquemine, La.; five sisters, Mrs. Fred Young and Mrs. A. C. Williamson, both 
of Vicksburg; and Mrs. J. S. Agee, Mrs. C. S. Utz and Mrs. W. J. Ward, all of Tallulah, 
and two grandsons.