Pickens County GaArchives Obituaries.....Allen, J. R..  March 4, 1917
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Atlanta Constitution, 6 March 1917
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Funeral Is Held For J. R. Allen At Talking Rock.

Talking Rock, Ga., March 5-
The funeral of J. R. Allen, former member of the Georgia legislature, was held 
today from his home at this place.  Mr. Allen succumbed to an illness at his 
home Sunday at 8:30 o'clock.
The career of Mr. Allen has been one of unusual interest.  He was born ? 
August, 1847, and in 1874 he married Miss Frances E. Stephens.  He has been a 
member of the F.& A. M. since 1870, a member of the Baptist 
church more that 50 years, during 31 [34?) of which he was a Baptist minister.
Mr. Allen was twice a representative from Pickens county, and twice senator 
from the forty-first district.  He has been chairman of the republican party in 
Pickens county a number of years as well as a delegate to the republican 
convention that nominated McKinley in 1900.  In 1910 Mr. Allen was a supervisor 
of the census for the ninth Georgia district.
During his years of public service Mr. Allen made hundreds of staunch friends.  
Politically and personally he stood among the highest in his community and was 
a man greatly respected throughout the state.  While a republican, Mr. Allen 
always held the confidence and esteem of his democratic associates in the 
legislature.
His wife and two children survive him; also, one brother, W. A. Allen, of 
Ellijay; and two sisters, Mrs. Will Tatum, of Cartecay, and Mrs. J. S. Davis, 
of Atlanta.

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