OBIT: Mrs. Dickey Allen, 1877, Barren Co. 

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"Death of Mrs. Dickey Allen. Editor Times:

"When a pioneer dies, one that lived, acted, rejoiced and suffered in the
prime of life a half century ago, on the same theatre that we occupy today;
especially one who was an honor to the human kind, it is meet at least that
public mention be made of the event.

"Mrs. Dickey Allen died at the residence of her son, R. H. Allen, in Barren
county (near Denton's mill), on last Thursday. She had lived for the last
fifty years on the same farm on which she died, had been a member of the Mt.
Tabor Baptist church for forty years, and, was eighty-three years old. She
was a noble christian woman of the "olden times." During all this long
eventful life she maintained a christian character that shed a lustre on the
road that leads back to God, by which we may more plainly see the way. Even
in the very hour and article of death, she rejoined in the certain hope (on
the radiant shore of the new, bright world), of immortality. Her funeral was
preached last Friday evening, at her son's house to an attentive audience of
friends and neighbors, by that old veteran of the cross - and man of God -
Elder James Brooks - who has been pastor of the Tabor church for more than a
quarter of a century, it was fitting that the funeral of such an one should
be preached by such a man. Than Elder Brooks, I presume, no man lives in
Kentucy whose unselfish, unswerving, Christian example has done more good
upon all with the range of his influence. He has emitted a cosntant, steady
effulgence of Christian example and christian influence for nearly half a
century. Like the great "King of day", he has given no uncertian, flickering
light, but a steadier, stronger light, as he moveth towards the zenith of
Christian perfection. He is an animated example of the Divine influence of
the principles he advocated. Without money and without price, he has
preached the Gospel through a long lifetime; determined to make a landing on
the Canaan side of Jordan, with as many rebut the refined theological logic
of a Beecher, but no infidel dares to account for the life of a Brooks
without admitting the divinity of his religion. He preaches

"That faith that trains upward the pentitent soul,
And leads to the Home of the perfectly blessed,
That faith that redeems -- and alone can unfold,
That the plans of Jehovah are always best." Mount Tabor, Barren County, 9
Sept 1877.

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Glasgow (KY) Weekly Times, 27 Sept 1877

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