Allen Cemetery, Sublime, Lavaca County, Texas, USA [1]
Weimar Mercury, 16 Nov 1907, page 4 In the death of Mrs. Martha T. Allen, which occurred last Monday morning at the residence of her son, Mr. Chas. A. Allen, of the Shimek community, after a long illness, Colorado County lost one of its most respected, best and muchly beloved personages. Mrs. Allen was a native of Georgia, moving to this state in 1859, and, we believe, spent practically the remainder of her life upon the Allen homestead a few miles south of Weimar. She was 75 years and 7 months old at the time of her death. The remains were committed to mother earth at the family burying ground near Shimek Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock, Rev. Pledger, Methodist minister at Waelder performing the burial service. Mrs. Allen was the mother of Messrs. Chas. and Monroe Allen of Shimek, Milton Allen of Magdalena, N.M., and Mrs. Minnie Barnette of Globe, Arizona. One daughter, Mrs. Nellie Livington, died at Livington, Arizona, just a short while before the mother’s death. Mrs. Allen was a good, christian woman, possessing a sweetness of disposition, sympathetic nature, cheerfulness and thoughtfulness of the comfort of others which endeared her to a large circle of friends. The latter part of her life was marred by ill health, but she bore up uncomplaining to the last, passing to the eternal rest so longed for by the true christian with a smile of sweet resignation upon her lips. The death of such a good woman, so universally beloved by all, is deeply and sincerely deplored. Our heart felt sympathy goes to the bereaved relatives and friends.
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