Neodesha Register
Neodesha, Kansas
Friday, February 22, 1895
page 3
An Aged Mother At Rest.
Died, at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. A.N. Perkins, in Fredonia, Wednesday, February 20, 1895, of old age and general disability, Mary Killingsworth-Allen, aged 84 years, 9 months and 7 days.
Three quarters of a century have passed since Mother Allen began to take active part in life and almost eighty-five years since her eyes first beheld the light amid the mountains of Eastern Tennessee near the then village of Knoxville. The family afterwards moved to Alabama where she lived during her early childhood.
Her maiden name was Killingsworth but at the early age of fifteen she was united in marriage to a young man, William Allen, only a few years her senior, at Lebanon in Wilson county, Tennessee. The reader should remember that at that time period the region in which Mother Allen was born and reared, Alabama and Tennessee was wilder and farther removed from civilization that any portion of this nation today. She and her husband were the self-reliant children of families of brave pioneers which pressed ahead of the slow moving civilization of that day into the wilderness. They had no opportunity for "book learning," but they possessed fortitude, energy, selfreliance and powers of observation which has left its impression on their progeny and made them recognized and respected factors in every community in which they have resided. Neither the young husband or wife possessed those accomplishments, reading and writing, which are now easily acquired by the poorest in the land, and are recognized as necessities. But in many things they were wiser than the children and young people of this generation. They possessed strength of body and mind and force of character, which, when rightly applied, overcame all opposing circumstances.
In 1828, soon after the birth of their first child, they forsook the hills and forests of Tennessee for the more fertile and hospitable prairies of Illinois, locating on Buckshorn Prairie in Morgan county. There they lived until 1833. The husband served under Captain Buck Weatherford through the Black Hawk war. After his discharge they moved to Montgomery county, where they settled permanently. Children had come to bless the union of the hardy young pioneers and when the young mother was twenty-two years of age she had give birth to five children, all of whom were alive and hearty. At forty years of age she had given birth to twelve children all reaching maturity, but only six are now living. On January 17, 1862 her husband yielded to a sudden illness and was laid to rest. The children by that time had begun to seek homes of their own, but the mother stayed on the farm until the youngest son, Frank T., who had chosen the medical profession, started to college in 1868, when she quit her home and thereafter lived with one and then another of her children, as her desires or convenience led her.
In addition to her own children she reared two foster children, one of whom, Judge Lane, is now a member of congress from the Eighteenth Illinois district.
She was a very devout Christian. Shortly after her marriage she was converted and became a member of the Presbyterian church. So long as age and health permitted her she was one of the most active and influential members of that denomination. Though deprived of an early education she possessed a wonderfully retentive memory and after her children learned to read she had them read the word of God in her hearing until it was more familiar to her than it is to many people who have had better opportunities. Her keen mind quickly grasped the teachings and hidden meaning of the Word, and her clear spiritual faculties imbibed its teachings, until there were few persons who enjoyed a clearer perception of the Truth as it is personified in Christ Jesus. It was a treat to any devout soul to listen to her marvelous expositions of the meaning of what are, to many, obscure passages of the scriptures.
Her health has been very poor for some years past but she retained possession of most of her faculties until some months since when it was noticed by her loving attendants that at intervals her mind was clouded. Since the death of her son, Dr. W.A. Allen, at Greenville, Illinois, a few years ago, she has lived most of the time, either with her youngest son, Dr. F.T. Allen, of this city, or with her youngest child and daughter, Mrs. Mary Perkins, of Fredonia.
Religious services were held in her memory at the residence of Dr. Perkins in Fredonia yesterday at 12 o'clock. The services were led by Rev. Mrs. Wright, in whom the old Christian reposed great confidence. After the close of the very appropriate service the remains were conveyed by train to this city and interred in the cemetery north of town, the burial services being conducted by Rev. J.N. Funston.
All her surviving children were present to pay this last tribute of respect to their respected mother save one, Mrs. Margaret A. Smith, of Greenville, Ill. Those present in the order of their age were: Dr. Rufus Allen with wife, of Nowata, Indian Territory; Mrs. E.E. Bartlett and family, of Joplin, Missouri; John H. Allen and family, of Fredonia, Kansas; Dr. F.T. Allen and family, of this city; Mrs. Mary Perkins and family of Fredonia.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Neodesha, Kansas
Friday, February 22, 1895
page 3
An Aged Mother At Rest.
Died, at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. A.N. Perkins, in Fredonia, Wednesday, February 20, 1895, of old age and general disability, Mary Killingsworth-Allen, aged 84 years, 9 months and 7 days.
Three quarters of a century have passed since Mother Allen began to take active part in life and almost eighty-five years since her eyes first beheld the light amid the mountains of Eastern Tennessee near the then village of Knoxville. The family afterwards moved to Alabama where she lived during her early childhood.
Her maiden name was Killingsworth but at the early age of fifteen she was united in marriage to a young man, William Allen, only a few years her senior, at Lebanon in Wilson county, Tennessee. The reader should remember that at that time period the region in which Mother Allen was born and reared, Alabama and Tennessee was wilder and farther removed from civilization that any portion of this nation today. She and her husband were the self-reliant children of families of brave pioneers which pressed ahead of the slow moving civilization of that day into the wilderness. They had no opportunity for "book learning," but they possessed fortitude, energy, selfreliance and powers of observation which has left its impression on their progeny and made them recognized and respected factors in every community in which they have resided. Neither the young husband or wife possessed those accomplishments, reading and writing, which are now easily acquired by the poorest in the land, and are recognized as necessities. But in many things they were wiser than the children and young people of this generation. They possessed strength of body and mind and force of character, which, when rightly applied, overcame all opposing circumstances.
In 1828, soon after the birth of their first child, they forsook the hills and forests of Tennessee for the more fertile and hospitable prairies of Illinois, locating on Buckshorn Prairie in Morgan county. There they lived until 1833. The husband served under Captain Buck Weatherford through the Black Hawk war. After his discharge they moved to Montgomery county, where they settled permanently. Children had come to bless the union of the hardy young pioneers and when the young mother was twenty-two years of age she had give birth to five children, all of whom were alive and hearty. At forty years of age she had given birth to twelve children all reaching maturity, but only six are now living. On January 17, 1862 her husband yielded to a sudden illness and was laid to rest. The children by that time had begun to seek homes of their own, but the mother stayed on the farm until the youngest son, Frank T., who had chosen the medical profession, started to college in 1868, when she quit her home and thereafter lived with one and then another of her children, as her desires or convenience led her.
In addition to her own children she reared two foster children, one of whom, Judge Lane, is now a member of congress from the Eighteenth Illinois district.
She was a very devout Christian. Shortly after her marriage she was converted and became a member of the Presbyterian church. So long as age and health permitted her she was one of the most active and influential members of that denomination. Though deprived of an early education she possessed a wonderfully retentive memory and after her children learned to read she had them read the word of God in her hearing until it was more familiar to her than it is to many people who have had better opportunities. Her keen mind quickly grasped the teachings and hidden meaning of the Word, and her clear spiritual faculties imbibed its teachings, until there were few persons who enjoyed a clearer perception of the Truth as it is personified in Christ Jesus. It was a treat to any devout soul to listen to her marvelous expositions of the meaning of what are, to many, obscure passages of the scriptures.
Her health has been very poor for some years past but she retained possession of most of her faculties until some months since when it was noticed by her loving attendants that at intervals her mind was clouded. Since the death of her son, Dr. W.A. Allen, at Greenville, Illinois, a few years ago, she has lived most of the time, either with her youngest son, Dr. F.T. Allen, of this city, or with her youngest child and daughter, Mrs. Mary Perkins, of Fredonia.
Religious services were held in her memory at the residence of Dr. Perkins in Fredonia yesterday at 12 o'clock. The services were led by Rev. Mrs. Wright, in whom the old Christian reposed great confidence. After the close of the very appropriate service the remains were conveyed by train to this city and interred in the cemetery north of town, the burial services being conducted by Rev. J.N. Funston.
All her surviving children were present to pay this last tribute of respect to their respected mother save one, Mrs. Margaret A. Smith, of Greenville, Ill. Those present in the order of their age were: Dr. Rufus Allen with wife, of Nowata, Indian Territory; Mrs. E.E. Bartlett and family, of Joplin, Missouri; John H. Allen and family, of Fredonia, Kansas; Dr. F.T. Allen and family, of this city; Mrs. Mary Perkins and family of Fredonia.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Neodesha Register
Neodesha, Kansas
Friday, February 22, 1895
page 3
An Aged Mother At Rest.
Died, at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. A.N. Perkins, in Fredonia, Wednesday, February 20, 1895, of old age and general disability, Mary Killingsworth-Allen, aged 84 years, 9 months and 7 days.
Three quarters of a century have passed since Mother Allen began to take active part in life and almost eighty-five years since her eyes first beheld the light amid the mountains of Eastern Tennessee near the then village of Knoxville. The family afterwards moved to Alabama where she lived during her early childhood.
Her maiden name was Killingsworth but at the early age of fifteen she was united in marriage to a young man, William Allen, only a few years her senior, at Lebanon in Wilson county, Tennessee. The reader should remember that at that time period the region in which Mother Allen was born and reared, Alabama and Tennessee was wilder and farther removed from civilization that any portion of this nation today. She and her husband were the self-reliant children of families of brave pioneers which pressed ahead of the slow moving civilization of that day into the wilderness. They had no opportunity for "book learning," but they possessed fortitude, energy, selfreliance and powers of observation which has left its impression on their progeny and made them recognized and respected factors in every community in which they have resided. Neither the young husband or wife possessed those accomplishments, reading and writing, which are now easily acquired by the poorest in the land, and are recognized as necessities. But in many things they were wiser than the children and young people of this generation. They possessed strength of body and mind and force of character, which, when rightly applied, overcame all opposing circumstances.
In 1828, soon after the birth of their first child, they forsook the hills and forests of Tennessee for the more fertile and hospitable prairies of Illinois, locating on Buckshorn Prairie in Morgan county. There they lived until 1833. The husband served under Captain Buck Weatherford through the Black Hawk war. After his discharge they moved to Montgomery county, where they settled permanently. Children had come to bless the union of the hardy young pioneers and when the young mother was twenty-two years of age she had give birth to five children, all of whom were alive and hearty. At forty years of age she had given birth to twelve children all reaching maturity, but only six are now living. On January 17, 1862 her husband yielded to a sudden illness and was laid to rest. The children by that time had begun to seek homes of their own, but the mother stayed on the farm until the youngest son, Frank T., who had chosen the medical profession, started to college in 1868, when she quit her home and thereafter lived with one and then another of her children, as her desires or convenience led her.
In addition to her own children she reared two foster children, one of whom, Judge Lane, is now a member of congress from the Eighteenth Illinois district.
She was a very devout Christian. Shortly after her marriage she was converted and became a member of the Presbyterian church. So long as age and health permitted her she was one of the most active and influential members of that denomination. Though deprived of an early education she possessed a wonderfully retentive memory and after her children learned to read she had them read the word of God in her hearing until it was more familiar to her than it is to many people who have had better opportunities. Her keen mind quickly grasped the teachings and hidden meaning of the Word, and her clear spiritual faculties imbibed its teachings, until there were few persons who enjoyed a clearer perception of the Truth as it is personified in Christ Jesus. It was a treat to any devout soul to listen to her marvelous expositions of the meaning of what are, to many, obscure passages of the scriptures.
Her health has been very poor for some years past but she retained possession of most of her faculties until some months since when it was noticed by her loving attendants that at intervals her mind was clouded. Since the death of her son, Dr. W.A. Allen, at Greenville, Illinois, a few years ago, she has lived most of the time, either with her youngest son, Dr. F.T. Allen, of this city, or with her youngest child and daughter, Mrs. Mary Perkins, of Fredonia.
Religious services were held in her memory at the residence of Dr. Perkins in Fredonia yesterday at 12 o'clock. The services were led by Rev. Mrs. Wright, in whom the old Christian reposed great confidence. After the close of the very appropriate service the remains were conveyed by train to this city and interred in the cemetery north of town, the burial services being conducted by Rev. J.N. Funston.
All her surviving children were present to pay this last tribute of respect to their respected mother save one, Mrs. Margaret A. Smith, of Greenville, Ill. Those present in the order of their age were: Dr. Rufus Allen with wife, of Nowata, Indian Territory; Mrs. E.E. Bartlett and family, of Joplin, Missouri; John H. Allen and family, of Fredonia, Kansas; Dr. F.T. Allen and family, of this city; Mrs. Mary Perkins and family of Fredonia.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Neodesha, Kansas
Friday, February 22, 1895
page 3
An Aged Mother At Rest.
Died, at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. A.N. Perkins, in Fredonia, Wednesday, February 20, 1895, of old age and general disability, Mary Killingsworth-Allen, aged 84 years, 9 months and 7 days.
Three quarters of a century have passed since Mother Allen began to take active part in life and almost eighty-five years since her eyes first beheld the light amid the mountains of Eastern Tennessee near the then village of Knoxville. The family afterwards moved to Alabama where she lived during her early childhood.
Her maiden name was Killingsworth but at the early age of fifteen she was united in marriage to a young man, William Allen, only a few years her senior, at Lebanon in Wilson county, Tennessee. The reader should remember that at that time period the region in which Mother Allen was born and reared, Alabama and Tennessee was wilder and farther removed from civilization that any portion of this nation today. She and her husband were the self-reliant children of families of brave pioneers which pressed ahead of the slow moving civilization of that day into the wilderness. They had no opportunity for "book learning," but they possessed fortitude, energy, selfreliance and powers of observation which has left its impression on their progeny and made them recognized and respected factors in every community in which they have resided. Neither the young husband or wife possessed those accomplishments, reading and writing, which are now easily acquired by the poorest in the land, and are recognized as necessities. But in many things they were wiser than the children and young people of this generation. They possessed strength of body and mind and force of character, which, when rightly applied, overcame all opposing circumstances.
In 1828, soon after the birth of their first child, they forsook the hills and forests of Tennessee for the more fertile and hospitable prairies of Illinois, locating on Buckshorn Prairie in Morgan county. There they lived until 1833. The husband served under Captain Buck Weatherford through the Black Hawk war. After his discharge they moved to Montgomery county, where they settled permanently. Children had come to bless the union of the hardy young pioneers and when the young mother was twenty-two years of age she had give birth to five children, all of whom were alive and hearty. At forty years of age she had given birth to twelve children all reaching maturity, but only six are now living. On January 17, 1862 her husband yielded to a sudden illness and was laid to rest. The children by that time had begun to seek homes of their own, but the mother stayed on the farm until the youngest son, Frank T., who had chosen the medical profession, started to college in 1868, when she quit her home and thereafter lived with one and then another of her children, as her desires or convenience led her.
In addition to her own children she reared two foster children, one of whom, Judge Lane, is now a member of congress from the Eighteenth Illinois district.
She was a very devout Christian. Shortly after her marriage she was converted and became a member of the Presbyterian church. So long as age and health permitted her she was one of the most active and influential members of that denomination. Though deprived of an early education she possessed a wonderfully retentive memory and after her children learned to read she had them read the word of God in her hearing until it was more familiar to her than it is to many people who have had better opportunities. Her keen mind quickly grasped the teachings and hidden meaning of the Word, and her clear spiritual faculties imbibed its teachings, until there were few persons who enjoyed a clearer perception of the Truth as it is personified in Christ Jesus. It was a treat to any devout soul to listen to her marvelous expositions of the meaning of what are, to many, obscure passages of the scriptures.
Her health has been very poor for some years past but she retained possession of most of her faculties until some months since when it was noticed by her loving attendants that at intervals her mind was clouded. Since the death of her son, Dr. W.A. Allen, at Greenville, Illinois, a few years ago, she has lived most of the time, either with her youngest son, Dr. F.T. Allen, of this city, or with her youngest child and daughter, Mrs. Mary Perkins, of Fredonia.
Religious services were held in her memory at the residence of Dr. Perkins in Fredonia yesterday at 12 o'clock. The services were led by Rev. Mrs. Wright, in whom the old Christian reposed great confidence. After the close of the very appropriate service the remains were conveyed by train to this city and interred in the cemetery north of town, the burial services being conducted by Rev. J.N. Funston.
All her surviving children were present to pay this last tribute of respect to their respected mother save one, Mrs. Margaret A. Smith, of Greenville, Ill. Those present in the order of their age were: Dr. Rufus Allen with wife, of Nowata, Indian Territory; Mrs. E.E. Bartlett and family, of Joplin, Missouri; John H. Allen and family, of Fredonia, Kansas; Dr. F.T. Allen and family, of this city; Mrs. Mary Perkins and family of Fredonia.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
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