Civil War:
SGT
Company F
7th Regiment Illinois Infantry
Winfield Daily Courier
Winfield, Kansas
Monday, April 8, 1901
page 3
Marsh Allen Killed.
Thrown From a Wagon Saturday Night and Received Fatal Injuries.
Marshall Allen, a Cowley county pioneer and a well known farmer living on old Grow farm between Akron and Rock now owned by Geo. S. Marks, was thrown or fell from a wagon Saturday night and received injuries from which he died soon after being found.
Mr. Allen came to town Saturday with a load of hogs and started home about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The spring seat wagon top of two pairs of side boards and he must have fallen from this elevated position. His team got home about 8 o'clock without a driver and his family at once started out to find out what was wrong. When they got to Akron on their way to town they learned that Mr. Allen had gone toward home from Akron by what is known as the ridge road and the searching party started in the same direction. They found him lying by the road on the hill side just south of the church above Akron and he was conscious when found. His first query was about the team and then said that his back was broken and that he was going to die. He was placed in a buggy and died on the way home.
The funeral occurred yesterday afternoon at 3:30, Rev. T.W. Jeffrey preaching the sermon and the exercises being in charge of the Siverd Post No. 85 G.A.R. of which the deceased was a member. About twenty-five members of the post attended the funeral and Col. E.B. Manning, Capt. T.B. Myers, Irving Cole, J.S. Anderson, Capt. W.R. Lee and Jacob Swarts acted as pall bearers. He leaves a widow and five children, besides brothers and other relatives.
Mr. Allen proved up a claim in Vernon township and he did his part in transforming Cowley county from a desolate, treeless plain to its present high state of cultivation. He was a member of the Seventh Illinois, regiment, the first regiment Illinois sent to the front in the Civil war and he made an enviable army record. Quite a number of his old neighbors and comrades in Vernon township attended the funeral and the house would not hold half of the people who attended the funeral exercises at the church. He was buried at Mt. Vernon cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
SGT
Company F
7th Regiment Illinois Infantry
Winfield Daily Courier
Winfield, Kansas
Monday, April 8, 1901
page 3
Marsh Allen Killed.
Thrown From a Wagon Saturday Night and Received Fatal Injuries.
Marshall Allen, a Cowley county pioneer and a well known farmer living on old Grow farm between Akron and Rock now owned by Geo. S. Marks, was thrown or fell from a wagon Saturday night and received injuries from which he died soon after being found.
Mr. Allen came to town Saturday with a load of hogs and started home about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The spring seat wagon top of two pairs of side boards and he must have fallen from this elevated position. His team got home about 8 o'clock without a driver and his family at once started out to find out what was wrong. When they got to Akron on their way to town they learned that Mr. Allen had gone toward home from Akron by what is known as the ridge road and the searching party started in the same direction. They found him lying by the road on the hill side just south of the church above Akron and he was conscious when found. His first query was about the team and then said that his back was broken and that he was going to die. He was placed in a buggy and died on the way home.
The funeral occurred yesterday afternoon at 3:30, Rev. T.W. Jeffrey preaching the sermon and the exercises being in charge of the Siverd Post No. 85 G.A.R. of which the deceased was a member. About twenty-five members of the post attended the funeral and Col. E.B. Manning, Capt. T.B. Myers, Irving Cole, J.S. Anderson, Capt. W.R. Lee and Jacob Swarts acted as pall bearers. He leaves a widow and five children, besides brothers and other relatives.
Mr. Allen proved up a claim in Vernon township and he did his part in transforming Cowley county from a desolate, treeless plain to its present high state of cultivation. He was a member of the Seventh Illinois, regiment, the first regiment Illinois sent to the front in the Civil war and he made an enviable army record. Quite a number of his old neighbors and comrades in Vernon township attended the funeral and the house would not hold half of the people who attended the funeral exercises at the church. He was buried at Mt. Vernon cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Civil War:
SGT
Company F
7th Regiment Illinois Infantry
Winfield Daily Courier
Winfield, Kansas
Monday, April 8, 1901
page 3
Marsh Allen Killed.
Thrown From a Wagon Saturday Night and Received Fatal Injuries.
Marshall Allen, a Cowley county pioneer and a well known farmer living on old Grow farm between Akron and Rock now owned by Geo. S. Marks, was thrown or fell from a wagon Saturday night and received injuries from which he died soon after being found.
Mr. Allen came to town Saturday with a load of hogs and started home about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The spring seat wagon top of two pairs of side boards and he must have fallen from this elevated position. His team got home about 8 o'clock without a driver and his family at once started out to find out what was wrong. When they got to Akron on their way to town they learned that Mr. Allen had gone toward home from Akron by what is known as the ridge road and the searching party started in the same direction. They found him lying by the road on the hill side just south of the church above Akron and he was conscious when found. His first query was about the team and then said that his back was broken and that he was going to die. He was placed in a buggy and died on the way home.
The funeral occurred yesterday afternoon at 3:30, Rev. T.W. Jeffrey preaching the sermon and the exercises being in charge of the Siverd Post No. 85 G.A.R. of which the deceased was a member. About twenty-five members of the post attended the funeral and Col. E.B. Manning, Capt. T.B. Myers, Irving Cole, J.S. Anderson, Capt. W.R. Lee and Jacob Swarts acted as pall bearers. He leaves a widow and five children, besides brothers and other relatives.
Mr. Allen proved up a claim in Vernon township and he did his part in transforming Cowley county from a desolate, treeless plain to its present high state of cultivation. He was a member of the Seventh Illinois, regiment, the first regiment Illinois sent to the front in the Civil war and he made an enviable army record. Quite a number of his old neighbors and comrades in Vernon township attended the funeral and the house would not hold half of the people who attended the funeral exercises at the church. He was buried at Mt. Vernon cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
SGT
Company F
7th Regiment Illinois Infantry
Winfield Daily Courier
Winfield, Kansas
Monday, April 8, 1901
page 3
Marsh Allen Killed.
Thrown From a Wagon Saturday Night and Received Fatal Injuries.
Marshall Allen, a Cowley county pioneer and a well known farmer living on old Grow farm between Akron and Rock now owned by Geo. S. Marks, was thrown or fell from a wagon Saturday night and received injuries from which he died soon after being found.
Mr. Allen came to town Saturday with a load of hogs and started home about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The spring seat wagon top of two pairs of side boards and he must have fallen from this elevated position. His team got home about 8 o'clock without a driver and his family at once started out to find out what was wrong. When they got to Akron on their way to town they learned that Mr. Allen had gone toward home from Akron by what is known as the ridge road and the searching party started in the same direction. They found him lying by the road on the hill side just south of the church above Akron and he was conscious when found. His first query was about the team and then said that his back was broken and that he was going to die. He was placed in a buggy and died on the way home.
The funeral occurred yesterday afternoon at 3:30, Rev. T.W. Jeffrey preaching the sermon and the exercises being in charge of the Siverd Post No. 85 G.A.R. of which the deceased was a member. About twenty-five members of the post attended the funeral and Col. E.B. Manning, Capt. T.B. Myers, Irving Cole, J.S. Anderson, Capt. W.R. Lee and Jacob Swarts acted as pall bearers. He leaves a widow and five children, besides brothers and other relatives.
Mr. Allen proved up a claim in Vernon township and he did his part in transforming Cowley county from a desolate, treeless plain to its present high state of cultivation. He was a member of the Seventh Illinois, regiment, the first regiment Illinois sent to the front in the Civil war and he made an enviable army record. Quite a number of his old neighbors and comrades in Vernon township attended the funeral and the house would not hold half of the people who attended the funeral exercises at the church. He was buried at Mt. Vernon cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
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