Obituaries:  Mrs. Asa L. Allen, 1930, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From:  August 1, 1930 Winnfield News-American

Mrs. Asa L. Allen Is Laid To Rest At Union Church

Died July 25 In Lovington, N. M.  A Pioneer of Winn Parish

Mrs. Asa L. Allen, 73 years old, mother of A. Leonard Allen, Attorney, and O.
K. Allen, chairman of the Louisiana Highway Commission, died July 25 in
Lovington, N. M. and was brought to Winnfield to the home of A. Leonard Allen
Sunday from whose home she was carried to the family cemetery at Union Church
five miles east of Winnfield for burial.

Funeral services were conducted for Mrs. Allen by Rev. A. H. Cullen at the
First Baptist Church in Winnfield before the body was conveyed to Union Church
Cemetery Monday morning.

Those immediately surviving Mrs. Allen are three sons, O. K. Allen, A. Leonard
Allen, Winnfield; Ira W. Allen, Lovington, N. M.; and two daughters, Mrs. A.
H. Broyles, Lovington, N. M., and Mrs. Fannie Abrams, Denham Springs, La.  One
son, Chester H. Allen died in 1918 in the army and others died in young
childhood.

A large concourse of friends and many prominent persons from over the state
attended the funeral.  Among them were Mayor V. V. Lamkin and J. M. Nugent,
vice-chairman, Louisiana Highway Commission, Alexandria; and Judge Wiley R.
Jones, Colfax.

Many beautiful floral offerings were tendered.

Mrs. Allen was a member of one of the pioneer and prominent families of Winn
Parish.  She was born in Winn Parish Oct. 27, 1856.  Asa L. Allen, her
husband, preceeded her in death in 1916.  He also was a pioneer of Winn
Parish.  Mrs. Allen was a Christian, having joined the Baptist Church early
and having lived a beautiful life.  The great characteristic of her life was
sacrificial service.  She gave her life to her family and friends, and even on
her death-bed she expressed the sentiment of being willing to to through any
suffering and trouble again for her children.

Mrs. Allen was the sister of the late Henry J. Perkins of Winnfield and also
of the late Andrew B. Perkins of Colfax, and a half-sister of D. L. Kirkland
of Oak Grove who survives her.  John T. Perkins of Shreveport is the only
living child of another deceased brother, and Andrew Perkins of Franklin
Parish is the son of still another deceased brother.  Mrs. W. W. Allen and
Mrs. W. O. Averett, both of Winnfield, Mrs. John Durham of Shreveport, and
Mrs. Eula Peavy of El Dorado, daughters of the late Henry J. Perkins are her
nieces.