George Allen 1849-1928

ALLEN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 1/20/2011 at 17:50:52

Mapleton Press
22 March 1928

Funeral services were held in Sioux City Saturday afternoon for George Allen, 78 years old, pioneer resident of Woodbury and Monona Counties, who died in Sioux City hospital Friday of injuries suffered Wednesday in an auto accident. Rev. D. Scott Daniel officiated at the rites, which were conducted at 3 o’clock in the Nelson and Berger funeral parlors. Interment was in Graceland Park Cemetery.

Mr. Allen was run down at Warrington road and Transit Avenue by a cattle truck driven by J.B. Walker, of Hornick, Iowa. Mr. Allen had been visiting his son, Joseph Allen, at Onawa, and returned on the railway. He had alighted from the train a few minutes before the accident. He lived with his daughter, Mrs. T.S. Graves, 1853 Whitehouse Avenue.

The injured man was rushed to the Lutheran Hospital. His condition gradually became more serious.

Mr. Allen was born in Pennsylvania, May 20, 1849, and moved to Iowa when he was a young man. He farmed near Onawa about 30 years and had lived near Mapleton several years. He retired from active work 15 years ago. He was a member of Latter Day Saints Church.

Mrs. F.L. Randalls, 409 West Fifth street, a daughter of Mr. Allen has been in St. Vincent’s hospital five weeks as the result of an automobile accident in which she suffered a fractured leg and body bruises.

Four sons and four daughters survive Mr. Allen. They are Joseph and Hiram of Onawa, William of Mapleton, Jacob, of Burbank, S.D., Mrs. T.S. and J.J. Graves and Mrs. Randall of Sioux City and Mrs. Sylvia Tennant of Milwaukee, Wis., a brother, William Allen of Sioux City and 20 grandchildren and four great grandchildren also survive.