Ben T. Allan Obituary

Henry County Local--December 13, 1946

Ben T. Allan, who was born and reared in the Sulphur community, and known as Louisville�s shabby bachelor, died last week and the Louisville Times (newspaper) carried the following excellent feature story about the man who spent little and left a fortune of $175,000.

With him he took the reasons he led a lonely secluded life in out-of-the-way hotel rooms while he piled up cash and securities in the bank.

Allan, a little man with thin white hair and a clipped white mustache, died last Thursday a few minutes after he left the Normandy Hotel, 111 N. Seventh, where he had lived since last August. He collapsed on the sidewalk, a block from the hotel as he started to walk to Fourth Street to get a meal.