Cobb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Allen, Thomas M. April 11, 1909
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The Marietta Journal; 22-Apr-1909
Negro EX-LEGISLATOR AND MINSTER, Rev. Thomas Allen, Dies at His Farm, Near 
Marietta.

Rev. Thomas Allen, a well-known colored Baptist minister, died at his farm 
home, near Marietta, on the 11th instant, aged seventy-six years.  

Before moving to Marietta, he lived in Jasper, county, Georgia, and represented 
that county in the Georgia legislature during the "reconstruction period," 
immediately after the late civil war.  He was associated in the legislature 
with Bishop Turner, colored, when the storm of passion and misrule reigned.

Be it said to the credit of the memory of Rev. Thomas Allen, he was a 
conservative man, of probity and respectability, as his life in Marietta 
demonstrated.  He served the Mt. Zion Baptist church here, as pastor, sixteen 
years, and there was nothing against him.  

His funeral was conducted here by Rev. E. R. Carter, of Atlanta, and he was 
buried in the city cemetery.


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