Obituary of Mrs. Helen B. Allison - Jackson Count, Illinois 

MRS. FRANK A. ALLISON DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Succumbs After Illness of Four Days

[Daily Republican Era, Murphysboro, IL.  Monday, March 3 1924]

	Mrs. Helen B. Allison, wife of Engineer Frank A. Allison, Jr. of the
Mobile & Ohio, died at 12:30 o’clock Saturday noon Following an illness of
four days.  Pneumonia caused death.

	Mrs. Allison became ill last Thanksgiving and had not fully recovered,
though she did improve to an extend which permitted her to take exercise. 
Last Tuesday forenoon she became ill of pneumonia and, weakened by the
other siege of sickness, she succumbed at noon Saturday.

	Born in England, January 31, 1869, she came to America while a child and
was reared in McKeesport, Pa., where she became acquainted with Frank A.
Allison.  They were married at Gettysburg, S. D., December 15, 1890.  Mr.
Allison was then a locomotive engineer on the Mobile & Ohio railroad and
had a home at 226 North Fifteenth street to which they came immediately
after their marriage and where they have lived ever since.

	During the 34 years she has been a resident of Murphysboro, Mrs. Allison
has been a resident of Murphysboro, Mrs. Allison has made a friend of every
acquaintance [one line is blurred] she has earned the highest esteem of
all.  Her religious affiliations were with the Protestant Episcopal
denomination of which she was a devout and faithful member.  Mr. and Mrs.
Allison have no children.  She has three brothers and one sister, two in
Oregon and two in South Dakota.

	The funeral took place Monday afternoon, March 3.  Rev. Wm. A. Hartung,
pastor of the First Christian church, conducted the funeral services at the
Allison home, 226 North Fifteen Street, at 2 o’clock.  The body was buried
in Tower Grove cemetery.

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