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Appendix IV

The Allen Cemetery

Ferdinand Carson, Vivien Carson, and Carl Johnson visited the Allen Cemetery on April 24, 2001. Here is what they found:

The Allen Cemetery is located just south of Macon, Georgia, on the west side of Houston Road, just north of Echeconee Creek. It is behind the ruin of the old mill formerly operated by David Allen.

The cemetery occupies a plot of ground about twelve feet square, and it is surrounded by an iron fence. It is grown up with trees, vines, and poison ivy. It contains three or four graves, but the markings on only one headstone could be read from outside the fence.

The one headstone reads:

David Allen

died

August 21, 1864

Aged 54 yrs, 7 mos, 28 days

Emeline P. Allen

beloved wife of

David Allen

died

There is no further inscription.

One other tombstone, which could not be read at on April 24, 2001, is said to read as follows:

Irene Allen Waite

Daughter of D. & E. T. Allen

Beloved wife of Rev. F. C. Waite

Died

Feb 7, 1876

Aged 30 yrs, 5 mos. 3 ds

After life’s fitful fever she sleepeth well

According to her obituary, Emeline P. Allen is also buried in this cemetery.