Beckham County, OK - Obits: Loyd Franklin Allen, 1906
22 July 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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ALLEN, LOYD FRANKLIN
(21 Nov 1906, Elk City Record, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Loyd Franklin Allen was born December 31, 1889 at Arlington, Iowa, moved
to South Dakota where he spent his childhood, then return to Iowa in 1894
and to Missouri in 1895 where at the age of sixteen he was converted and
united with the Christian church at Burlington Junction where they resided
until the summer of 1900 when they came to Roger Mills County.  After the
tragic death of his father in 1902 he spent a year in Washington and
Oregon returning home in 1904.  He moved to his claim in Beaver county
last March where he died with typhoid fever, October 29, 1906.  Last fall
while working on the section at Merritt, he hurt his back and has suffered
from it all the time since not being able to work over half the time.  Not
long before he was taken down, one evening at a meeting a lady friend said
to him, "Loyd, don't you think it is time for you to make the good start?"
 He replied that he had at time been a charlatan and intended to start
again and live right hereafter.  His mother, asked him if he was ready to
do.  Yes, he answered.  A look of wonder and amazement then came over his
face and his mother asked him what he saw.  Heaven he replied, his face
then was illimined (sic) by a smile as if he had met some loved one and so
passed away.  A baptist minister, Rev. Sutton, formally of Iowa, conducted
the funeral services after which he was laid away in a cemetery seven
miles north of Rice, Oklahoma.