"We stood beside him, when suffering he lay,
And struggled with disease, 'till he breathed his life away.
No rose was on his cheek, No sparkle in his eyes,
Though it grieved our hearts, for the darling to die.
A smile of beauty was on his face so fair,
It seemed as if an Angel sweetly slumbered there."
By: One who loved him

McGehee Times Jan. 5, 1949:
John W. Tucker, aged 59, of Tillar, died in the Dumas hospital Saturday. He had resided in this area for 28 years and was farm manager for Tillar and Company. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Tillar Methodist Church by the Rev. J.E. Christi and Rev. J.N. Shaddox. Burial was in the Tillar cemetery. Survivors include his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Bennie Hays of Pine Bluff and Mrs. J.R. Pilcher of Greenville, Miss.; three sons, J.W. Tucker, Jr. of Dumas, Eugene Tucker of Greenville, and Cecil Tucker of Rohwer, five sisters, Mrs. Coy Hayes of Crossett, Mrs. Octave Tucker, Mrs. George Edgerly and Mrs. Fred Hood of Memphis and Mrs. Dale Carter of California; four brothers, Frank Tucker of Hawkins, Texas, Vance Tucker of Florence, Will and Russell Tucker of Idaho; and his step mother, Mrs. Grace DeFir Tucker of Pine Bluff.

Advance Monticellonian April 28, 1949
Funeral services for John Volley Hayes were held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Mt. Tabor Methodist church by the Rev. Arthur White. Burial was in Mt. Tabor Cemetery. Mr. Hayes was born October 30, 1861 at Florence and was married to Dora Cathrine Breedlove in 1885. To this union were born ten children of whom 8 survive. Six daughters, Mrs. T.R. Robinson, Minden, Louisiana, Mrs. C.A. Hendrixson, Malvern, Mrs. H.W. Yates of Monticello, Mrs. T.J. Tucker and Mrs. Otis White of Florence, Mrs. Sidney Meyers of Chicago, Ill., and 2 sons, H.P. Hayes of Winchester and H.B. Hayes of Florence; two sisters, Mrs. Callie Peacock and Mrs. Exie Ferguson of Monticello and two brothers, Andy Hayes of Tillar and Lee Hayes of Florence, also survive. Mr. Hayes joined the Methodist Church at Mt. Tabor in 1884.