Obituary of Luther Knox

To the people of Franklin Parish, Louisiana , and the Nation I , L.D. Knox offer a fond Farewell: Funeral services for Luther Divine Knox, Sr. age 80 of Winnsboro will be held 3PM Tuesday June 2, 2009 from the Columbia chapel of Riser Funeral Home with Bro. Kenneth Collinsworth officiating. Interment will follow in the Shady Grove Cemetery at Jigger. Visitation will be on Monday evening from 5 to 8 PM at the funeral home in Columbia. Luther Divine Knox was born on March 9, 1929 to the union of his parents Grady Perry Knox and Leatice Rogers Knox. The vastness of his life was to be long and somewhat colorful. Known to everyone simply as L.D. he would go on to have his name changed to "none of the above" and would go on to run for more public offices than any other American excluding President Abraham Lincoln. He even ran for the office of President. L.D. felt that people as a whole were simply fed up with the two party system of government and he gave the people every opportunity to voice their sentiment. He did not serve in active duty in World War II but was an instructor to those who did instructing in the area of combat and enemy resistance. He was involved deeply in agriculture and owned some fourteen hundred acres at Bayou Macon which was hand cleared and brought to the highest level of cultivation. He approached the USDA in 1989 to end their primitive way of farming and to embrace the John Houston Smith row knocker and method of farming. L.D. was a champion and crusader of the common man, the under privileged, disabled, children, and elderly. As his legacy he leaves behind thirteen children: Sandra, Janice, Sherry, Peggy, Reggie, Darryl, Doyle, L. D. Jr, Gary, Jeffrey, Gregory, Angel, and Corey. Three siblings: Asy Knox, Gussie Collins, and Porsha Perot and his beloved friend of thirty five years Mrs. Mary Smith Pallbearers include: Judge Rudy McIntyre, Lelon Kenney, Mayor Jack Hammons, Roger Beall, Gary Rider, and Allen George. Honorary pallbearers include Raymond Barrington and Governor Edwin Edwards.