ALLEN GRAVEYARD

Just above the line dividing the farms of William James and Samuel
Allen, in the pioneer days, in the wide bottom above the mouth of
Stilwell, is a small burying ground.  The ground around it has been
cultivated so many years, and plowed so often that it has settled
away, leaving the grave plots on a sort of elevation, which has grown
over with brush, and the graves, when I saw them, were uncared for.
There was (October, 1922) only one tombstone.

Mary, wife of Samuel Allen, died September 12th, 1823, aged
fifty-two years, four months.  (Born April 21st, 1771)

Samuel Allen had a tombstone, but it is not there now.  He died in
the spring of 1827.  There may be other unmarked graves in the lot.
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