Allen Cemetery, Sublime, Lavaca County, Texas, USA [1]
Colorado Citizen, September 29, 1881, page 3 WEIMAR LOCAL MATTERS
Mr. M. R. Allen, an old and respected citizen of this county, who lived near Weller’s mill, died on the 26th inst.
Colorado Citizen, November 17, 1881 In Memoriam
“O world! So few the years we live, Would that the life which thou dost give Were life indeed! Alas! Thy sorrows fall so fast, Our happiest hour is when at last The soul is freed.”
Mathew R. Allen was born in Macon, Georgia, the 10th of February 1827, died at his home near Oakland, Colorado county, Texas, September 26, 1881, buried with Masonic honors by Oakland Lodge No. 258 of which he was a member. The deceased lived a consistant [sic] member of the Methodist Church.
WHEREAS, The great Creator having been pleased out of his mercy to remove our Brother from the cares and troubles of a transitory existence, to a state of eternal duration, and thereby to weaken the chain by which we are united man to man; may we who survive him, employ our time in reciprocal intercourse of kind and friendly acts, mutually promote the welfare and happiness of each other.
Resolved, That the members of the Lodge wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days, that this resolution be spread on our minutes, and that a copy be furnished to the family of the deceased Brother. J. M. Woolsey H. J. Strunk Committee J. H. Mullin Oakland, Texas, October 26, 1881
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