Enoch Napolean “Poley” Allen

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Enoch Napolean “Poley” Allen Veteran

Birth
Cherokee County, North Carolina, USA
Death
7 Oct 1978 (aged 82)
Cherokee County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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MARBLE - Enoch N. Allen, 82, of Route 1 Marble, died Saturday in a Murphy hospital after a brief illness.
A native of Cherokee County, he was the son of the late Enoch Mitchell and Artie Taylor Allen.
He was a veteran of World War I and served In the Argone Forest Battle in France and was awarded a victory medal.
He was a retired carpenter with Tennessee Valley Authority and the Naval Ordinance Laboratory. He was a member of Shoal Creek Baptist Church. He is survived by the wife, Mae Stiles Alien; seven daughters, Mrs. Paul Taylor and Mrs. Roy Lee Wilson of Candler, Mrs. William S. Sanders of Columbia, Tenn., Mrs. Charles Griffith of Murphy, Mrs. Joe Barnett of Marietta, Ga., and Mrs. Wendell Moore of Hayesvllle, and Mrs. Harold Scroggs Jr. of Asheville; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Friendship Baptist Church. The Revs. Clayton Haxter and Fred Lunsford will officiate. Burial will be In the church cemetery. Military graveside rites will be conducted by Ella Rogers Post No. 192 of Graham County.
The body will remain at Ivie Funeral Home until placed in the church 30 minutes before the services.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, North Carolina) · 9 Oct 1978, Mon · Page 5
MARBLE - Enoch N. Allen, 82, of Route 1 Marble, died Saturday in a Murphy hospital after a brief illness.
A native of Cherokee County, he was the son of the late Enoch Mitchell and Artie Taylor Allen.
He was a veteran of World War I and served In the Argone Forest Battle in France and was awarded a victory medal.
He was a retired carpenter with Tennessee Valley Authority and the Naval Ordinance Laboratory. He was a member of Shoal Creek Baptist Church. He is survived by the wife, Mae Stiles Alien; seven daughters, Mrs. Paul Taylor and Mrs. Roy Lee Wilson of Candler, Mrs. William S. Sanders of Columbia, Tenn., Mrs. Charles Griffith of Murphy, Mrs. Joe Barnett of Marietta, Ga., and Mrs. Wendell Moore of Hayesvllle, and Mrs. Harold Scroggs Jr. of Asheville; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Friendship Baptist Church. The Revs. Clayton Haxter and Fred Lunsford will officiate. Burial will be In the church cemetery. Military graveside rites will be conducted by Ella Rogers Post No. 192 of Graham County.
The body will remain at Ivie Funeral Home until placed in the church 30 minutes before the services.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, North Carolina) · 9 Oct 1978, Mon · Page 5

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Shares stone with Mae S. Allen