OBIT: Dennis ALLEN, 1904, Ebensburg, Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 14 Oct 1904
Volume XXXVIII, Number 40


Dennis Allen

Dennis Allen, a former Pittsburg shoe merchant, who for the past 
eight years has made his home in Ebensburg with his daughter, Mrs. A. 
J. Darragh, died Saturday evening at 9:30 from asthma and heart 
trouble.

Mr. Allen was a Catholic and was born in County Antrim, Ireland and 
had he lived until the 19th of this month, he would have completed his 
seventy-fifth year.

Mr. Allen had suffered more or less from asthma and week heart for 
several years especially during the winter months but up until Tuesday 
of last week had been enjoying his usual health.  On Tuesday he 
complained more than usual of his illness and went to bed and had not 
taken any solid food since.  Even during the five days he was confined 
to his bed, Mr. Allen's condition was not regarded as serious and about 
three hours before his death he arose from his bed and sat in a chair 
in his chamber and conversed with Mrs. Darragh. He had been up but a 
short time when he took a weak spell and three hours later passed into 
eternity, having been conscious up to within a few minutes of his 
death.

Mr. Allen was a shoemaker by trade, having learned the trade in 
Ireland. Some years after coming to this country he started a shoe 
store in Pittsburg and up until some eight years ago, when he retired 
from business, conducted a large store there.

After retiring Mr. Allen continued to live in East End, Pittsburg, 
for a time, after which he came to Ebensburg and had resided here ever 
since.  His wife, Mrs. Mary Fulton Allen, also a native or Ireland, 
died in Pittsburg fifteen years ago.

He leaves to survive him one daughter, Mrs. Mary J., wife of A. J. 
Darragh, of the West ward, Ebensburg.

The funeral took place in Pittsburg on Tuesday afternoon from 
McNulty's Chapel on Center Avenue, (Lawrenceville), East End, 
Pittsburg, at 2 o'clock.  Interment was made in St. Mary's cemetery in 
the family plot beside the remains of his wife.