1925 obit-Emily (Boice)Allen- Brattleboro,             Windham Co
Date:	98-04-30 19:07:33 EDT
From:	tess@sover.net (Terry Perham)

from the Brattleboro Reformer
                Brattleboro, Windham County, VT.
                            1925
                SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. EMILY ALLEN
  Was for 24 Years Treasurer of Woman's Relief Corps--Died in Her
Sleep                   from Heart Attack

        Mrs. Emily (Boice) Allen, 82, widow of Henry J. Allen, for many years
prominent in the work of Sedgwick Woman's Relief corps, died early
yesterday morning in her home at 174 Vernon street, being found dead in
bed by her son, Warren B. Allen of Chesterfield, N.H., and who had just
come there from Putney to remain for the present.  As Mrs. Allen had not
arisen about 9 o'clock, her son went to her room and found that she had
died in her sleep.  Death was due to a sudden heart attack.  Mrs. Allen
was in her usual good health on retiring the night before.

        Mrs. Allen was born in Arlington Nov. 17, 1843, a daughter of William
and Marbury (Holden) Boice.  In her girlhood she moved to West Rupert,
and there on Nov. 7, 1863, she married Henry J. Allen, a Brattleboro
native, and they come here to live.  Mr. Allen was for 35 years employed
by Butler, the baker.  Later he was mail carrier and carried on market
gardening.

        They lived for a time on the Fort Dummer farm, and for 53 years lived
in the house north of the Vernon street pavilion, moving several years
ago to 174 Vernon street.  Mr. Allen died April 24, 1919.

        Four children survive. They are Henry B. Allen and William A. Allen of
Brattleboro, Warren B. Allen of Chesterfield and Mrs. Roy E. Abbott of
Brattleboro.  There are three grandchildren, Mrs. Marion Strawbridge,
John W. Allen and Mrs. Elizabeth Sargent of Brattleboro, and one great
grandchild, Allen Sargent of this town.

        Mrs. Allen was a member of the Universalist church, Sedgwick Woman's
Relief corps, Protective Grange and the Women of Mooseheart Legion.  She
had been treasurer of the Relief corps 34 years.  About 75 members of
the corps assembled in G.A.R hall in recognition of Mrs. Allen's 82'd
anniversary and presented her an easy chair and a sum of money.  The
observance of the birthday was a complete surprise to Mrs. Allen.

        James Holden, Mrs. Allen's grandfather, was a soldier in the
Revolutionary war.  His marriage, which was to have taken place three
days before the battle of Bunker Hill, was postponed that he might join
the Colonial troops then assembling at Cambridge, Mass.  He was severely
wounded in that battle, and it is a tradition in the family that he was
the last of the living men to leave the entrenchments.

        The funeral will be held in All Soul's church tomorrow at 2:30 o'clock,
Rev. Edwin P. Wood officiating.  The body will be entombed in Prospect
Hill cemetery.
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Courtesy of
Terry Perham
Hinsdale, NH
tess@sover.net

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