Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Allen, Anna  1898
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The Portland Observer, Friday, February 25, 1898
Anna Smith Allen, wife of Capt. E. M. Allen, died at her home in this village 
yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, aged 56 years and 10 months.

For some time prior to two years ago Mrs. Allen had enjoyed fairly good 
health.  Two years ago she went to Grace hospital, Detroit, and submitted to 
an operation and came back feeling much better and up to a few months ago 
enjoyed a fair degree of health, since which time she has been gradually 
growing weaker and weaker, her great will power and splendid vitality greatly 
assisting Nature and medicine in the fight against the Grim Reaper.

Many times she would pass into unconsciousness and a comatose state from which 
it was thought she could not rally; but again and again her great will power 
would come to her assistance and another lease of life would be the result.  
But all the time her vitality was being sapped and three days ago she began to 
lose consciousness, and her attending physician, Dr. Allen, expressed the 
opinion that it would be impossible for her to again rally.  Her sufferings 
have been great, and repeatedly she expressed the desire that she might die 
and begged the attendants to allow her to end her suffering in death.  The 
immediate cause of her death was Bright disease.

Mrs. Allen was born in Marion, N.Y., April 15th, 1841.  Her early life was 
spent in the vicinity of her birthplace, where she acquired a liberal 
education, which she supplemented in later years by thoughtful and liberal 
reading.  She was married to Capt. E. M. Allen in November 1863, and went with 
her husband to Virginia, where she lived in a tent after visiting the picket 
line and other places of interest and peril, sharing her husband’s fatigue and 
hardships with a fortitude known only to the heroic women who lived in those 
eventful years.

The family moved to Portland in 1874 and her long residence here has endeared 
her to a large circle of acquaintances and cemented a friendship which will 
bridge the tomb and ripen into stronger ties in the great hereafter.  She was 
inspired thoroughly by unselfish, generous and gentle impulses, and her whole 
life was a blessing to others in kindly word and deed.  For many years she has 
been a consistent member of the M. E. church from which she will be missed as 
one gone on before.  

Funeral services will be conducted from her late home at 3 o’clock Sunday 
afternoon.  Revs. Bray and Millard will officiate.  Besides her husband, Mrs. 
Allen leaves three children: Winifred Bell of Seattle; Gertrude, who has been 
constantly with her mother for the past four months, and Clifton.

Capt. Allen has the sympathy of a large circle of friends in Portland, 
particularly among the business men, with whom he has been identified for the 
past quarter of a century; and also among the old soldiers and W.R.C., of whom 
he has always been a friend and adviser.


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