Pierce County WA Archives Cemeteries.....Allen Grave Site - Complete Survey
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Sec 33 Twp 17 N Rng 10 E WM is the official designation currently given
on the USGenWeb index page.  This is not correct, but the Pierce County
Sheriff's Department has asked us to keep the physical location of this 
grave site as confidential as possible to reduce vandalism potential.  
The grave is located at a site in the woods near the entry to Mount 
Rainier National Park via the Silver Creek Guard Station, approximately 
10 miles southeast of the town of Greenwater, Pierce County, Washington.  

Last Name     First Name    Middle Name   Birth       Death       Comment
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Allen         Henry         Clay          5 Mar 1848  Dec 1896    Pvt Co A 16th Wis Inf


Additional Comments:
This is a single grave located in rural Pierce County, Washington.  
Henry Clay Allen was a trapper and died in a snow storm while in the woods, 
within sight of his trap line cabin.  Volunteer searchers found his body 
some days after his demise.  It was deemed infeasible to remove his remains 
to his home in Buckley, so the volunteers interred Allen near where he died.  
Some years following his death his grave was marked with a Late Modified 
Belknap government marker, as befitting his service in the American Civil War. 
Birth and death information have been derived from his obituary.

Late Modified Belknap government marker locally modified with birth and 
death years, 1848-1896, for Civil War veteran Henry Clay Allen.  The lone 
marked grave is located adjacent to a small interpretive display erected by 
the US Forest Service, on a trail near the Silver Creek Guard Station entry 
to Mount Rainier National Park.  Photo taken in the company of representatives
of the Pierce County Sheriff's Office, the Greenwater Fire Department, and
the Sons of Union Veterans at the annual commemoration of Allen's Civil War 
service, Memorial Day 2006.  Date inscription is concealed in this view by flowers.

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