Cherokee Sentinel, May 27, 1927, page 1:
John Allen Dead
John Allen, the well liked old colored gentleman who lived out near the lake south of town, died in Friday after a lingering illness. "Peggy" as he was familiarly known, was quite a figure in this vicinity, and was known to most everyone.
Funeral services were held on Monday and the large attendance of both his white and colored friends testified to the respect with which he was held in this community. Burial was in the Cherokee cemetery.
Cherokee Sentinel, June 3, 1927, page 2:
Mr. Editor:
If it is not asking too much, permit me to say something through the columns of your paper, concerning the Citizens League of Cherokee, Kansas.
John Allen, Deceased.
John Allen was born at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 10, 1857, and died at Cherokee, Kansas, May 20, 1927.
He has been many years a resident of Crawford County, Kansas, and on Dec. 24, 1913, married Mrs. Martha Allen of Franklin, Kansas, who died not have to change her name when she married him.
He was a man of many denominational faiths. For a time he was of the Baptist faith, then of the Holy Ghost, a saint, and then he became a member of the Colored Methodist Episcopal denomination and from this church his funeral was preached by Rev. Calhoun, May 23rd.
Mr. Allen's home was two miles south of Cherokee where he had charge of the Cherokee Hunting Club and Fishing Lake. Then he enjoyed the friendship of the Vaughns, Ernest Vaughn and his father, prosperous farmers. On the coldest days of the winter he could be seen bringing their children to the Cherokee school in his buggy.
Being an agreeable man, having but one leg and in bad health, the Vaughns gave him such work as he could do and maintained him many years, and when he died, he was honored at his funeral by their presence and by the presence of scores of his other white neighbors.
When these facts were brought to the attention of the Citizens League, a vote of thanks complimenting Mr. Allen's white friends for their friendly deed (was taken). The friendship thus shown Mr. Allen is proof of the fact that the colored man residing in any white community may gain and maintain the respect and cooperation of his neighbors, if he will only be industrious, honest and upright, if he will observe the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
John Allen Dead
John Allen, the well liked old colored gentleman who lived out near the lake south of town, died in Friday after a lingering illness. "Peggy" as he was familiarly known, was quite a figure in this vicinity, and was known to most everyone.
Funeral services were held on Monday and the large attendance of both his white and colored friends testified to the respect with which he was held in this community. Burial was in the Cherokee cemetery.
Cherokee Sentinel, June 3, 1927, page 2:
Mr. Editor:
If it is not asking too much, permit me to say something through the columns of your paper, concerning the Citizens League of Cherokee, Kansas.
John Allen, Deceased.
John Allen was born at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 10, 1857, and died at Cherokee, Kansas, May 20, 1927.
He has been many years a resident of Crawford County, Kansas, and on Dec. 24, 1913, married Mrs. Martha Allen of Franklin, Kansas, who died not have to change her name when she married him.
He was a man of many denominational faiths. For a time he was of the Baptist faith, then of the Holy Ghost, a saint, and then he became a member of the Colored Methodist Episcopal denomination and from this church his funeral was preached by Rev. Calhoun, May 23rd.
Mr. Allen's home was two miles south of Cherokee where he had charge of the Cherokee Hunting Club and Fishing Lake. Then he enjoyed the friendship of the Vaughns, Ernest Vaughn and his father, prosperous farmers. On the coldest days of the winter he could be seen bringing their children to the Cherokee school in his buggy.
Being an agreeable man, having but one leg and in bad health, the Vaughns gave him such work as he could do and maintained him many years, and when he died, he was honored at his funeral by their presence and by the presence of scores of his other white neighbors.
When these facts were brought to the attention of the Citizens League, a vote of thanks complimenting Mr. Allen's white friends for their friendly deed (was taken). The friendship thus shown Mr. Allen is proof of the fact that the colored man residing in any white community may gain and maintain the respect and cooperation of his neighbors, if he will only be industrious, honest and upright, if he will observe the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Cherokee Sentinel, May 27, 1927, page 1:
John Allen Dead
John Allen, the well liked old colored gentleman who lived out near the lake south of town, died in Friday after a lingering illness. "Peggy" as he was familiarly known, was quite a figure in this vicinity, and was known to most everyone.
Funeral services were held on Monday and the large attendance of both his white and colored friends testified to the respect with which he was held in this community. Burial was in the Cherokee cemetery.
Cherokee Sentinel, June 3, 1927, page 2:
Mr. Editor:
If it is not asking too much, permit me to say something through the columns of your paper, concerning the Citizens League of Cherokee, Kansas.
John Allen, Deceased.
John Allen was born at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 10, 1857, and died at Cherokee, Kansas, May 20, 1927.
He has been many years a resident of Crawford County, Kansas, and on Dec. 24, 1913, married Mrs. Martha Allen of Franklin, Kansas, who died not have to change her name when she married him.
He was a man of many denominational faiths. For a time he was of the Baptist faith, then of the Holy Ghost, a saint, and then he became a member of the Colored Methodist Episcopal denomination and from this church his funeral was preached by Rev. Calhoun, May 23rd.
Mr. Allen's home was two miles south of Cherokee where he had charge of the Cherokee Hunting Club and Fishing Lake. Then he enjoyed the friendship of the Vaughns, Ernest Vaughn and his father, prosperous farmers. On the coldest days of the winter he could be seen bringing their children to the Cherokee school in his buggy.
Being an agreeable man, having but one leg and in bad health, the Vaughns gave him such work as he could do and maintained him many years, and when he died, he was honored at his funeral by their presence and by the presence of scores of his other white neighbors.
When these facts were brought to the attention of the Citizens League, a vote of thanks complimenting Mr. Allen's white friends for their friendly deed (was taken). The friendship thus shown Mr. Allen is proof of the fact that the colored man residing in any white community may gain and maintain the respect and cooperation of his neighbors, if he will only be industrious, honest and upright, if he will observe the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
John Allen Dead
John Allen, the well liked old colored gentleman who lived out near the lake south of town, died in Friday after a lingering illness. "Peggy" as he was familiarly known, was quite a figure in this vicinity, and was known to most everyone.
Funeral services were held on Monday and the large attendance of both his white and colored friends testified to the respect with which he was held in this community. Burial was in the Cherokee cemetery.
Cherokee Sentinel, June 3, 1927, page 2:
Mr. Editor:
If it is not asking too much, permit me to say something through the columns of your paper, concerning the Citizens League of Cherokee, Kansas.
John Allen, Deceased.
John Allen was born at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 10, 1857, and died at Cherokee, Kansas, May 20, 1927.
He has been many years a resident of Crawford County, Kansas, and on Dec. 24, 1913, married Mrs. Martha Allen of Franklin, Kansas, who died not have to change her name when she married him.
He was a man of many denominational faiths. For a time he was of the Baptist faith, then of the Holy Ghost, a saint, and then he became a member of the Colored Methodist Episcopal denomination and from this church his funeral was preached by Rev. Calhoun, May 23rd.
Mr. Allen's home was two miles south of Cherokee where he had charge of the Cherokee Hunting Club and Fishing Lake. Then he enjoyed the friendship of the Vaughns, Ernest Vaughn and his father, prosperous farmers. On the coldest days of the winter he could be seen bringing their children to the Cherokee school in his buggy.
Being an agreeable man, having but one leg and in bad health, the Vaughns gave him such work as he could do and maintained him many years, and when he died, he was honored at his funeral by their presence and by the presence of scores of his other white neighbors.
When these facts were brought to the attention of the Citizens League, a vote of thanks complimenting Mr. Allen's white friends for their friendly deed (was taken). The friendship thus shown Mr. Allen is proof of the fact that the colored man residing in any white community may gain and maintain the respect and cooperation of his neighbors, if he will only be industrious, honest and upright, if he will observe the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
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