Harris Ogilvie Allen was born on September 24, 1853, in DeSoto County, Miss., the son of Col. H. O. Allen and Julia Allen; was married to Mattie L. Richardson on November 13, 1879; obeyed the gospel the second Lord's day in September, 1884; and died on January 1, 1915. He leaves of his immediate family his wife and nine children. He was in declining health for many months before his death, and was hopeful of regaining his health all the while. It is sad to miss him in the home and in the church, yet we feel it was best for him to go hence. I knew Brother Allen well and regarded him as one of my best earthly friends. His advice was always the best. I regarded him a consistent Christian in his home and in the church. This fact is strongly evidence by the family he reared with the aid of his most excellent helpmeet. I cannot say I have ever been in a more orderly home. He would never do a thing and at the same time oppose his children's doing the same. He simply lived before them daily as he wanted them to live. He was free to see his own faults and make amends, and did not allow his love and admiration for others to blind him to their faults. He was impartial, honest, God-fearing, and truth-seeking soldier in God's army. He was reared under religious isms, yet, honest and concerned in spiritual matters, he heard the truth, believed it, obeyed it, caused his wife to see it, and led each child in the faith as age prepared them to receive it. He and his wife have done a work that will live while ages roll on. Singularly, the one that he heard deliver the first gospel discourse is the one that conducted his funeral--Brother T. B. Larimore.
J. W. Dunn.
(Gospel Advocate, April 23, 1915)
J. W. Dunn.
(Gospel Advocate, April 23, 1915)
Harris Ogilvie Allen was born on September 24, 1853, in DeSoto County, Miss., the son of Col. H. O. Allen and Julia Allen; was married to Mattie L. Richardson on November 13, 1879; obeyed the gospel the second Lord's day in September, 1884; and died on January 1, 1915. He leaves of his immediate family his wife and nine children. He was in declining health for many months before his death, and was hopeful of regaining his health all the while. It is sad to miss him in the home and in the church, yet we feel it was best for him to go hence. I knew Brother Allen well and regarded him as one of my best earthly friends. His advice was always the best. I regarded him a consistent Christian in his home and in the church. This fact is strongly evidence by the family he reared with the aid of his most excellent helpmeet. I cannot say I have ever been in a more orderly home. He would never do a thing and at the same time oppose his children's doing the same. He simply lived before them daily as he wanted them to live. He was free to see his own faults and make amends, and did not allow his love and admiration for others to blind him to their faults. He was impartial, honest, God-fearing, and truth-seeking soldier in God's army. He was reared under religious isms, yet, honest and concerned in spiritual matters, he heard the truth, believed it, obeyed it, caused his wife to see it, and led each child in the faith as age prepared them to receive it. He and his wife have done a work that will live while ages roll on. Singularly, the one that he heard deliver the first gospel discourse is the one that conducted his funeral--Brother T. B. Larimore.
J. W. Dunn.
(Gospel Advocate, April 23, 1915)
J. W. Dunn.
(Gospel Advocate, April 23, 1915)
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