Obits:  Allen, Charles,  died  July 1951
Oct. 2002
Wolfe County, KY 

Submitted by: http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000062 
Wolfe County Genealogy and  Carole Bays
**********************************************************************Wolfe County News,  Feb. 4, 1949
Wolfe County News    July 18, 1951

LAST RITES HELD AT JACKSON FOR CHARLES ALLEN	

Funeral services for Charles Allen, 23 were held Monday afternoon at 
1:30 o'clock, at the First Christian Church, Jackson, conducted by the 
Rev. Nash pastor of the Beattyville Christian Church.

Burial was at Stillwater in Wolfe County.

Young Allen, an employee of the Pennington Funeral Home at Beattyville, 
was shot about 8:30 Friday night in a roadhouse near Hazard.

Perry county officers said they arrested Ray Thomas of Perry county 
shortly after the shooting and placed him in jail at Hazard.

Thomas was arrested on a charge of shooting and wounding, however that 
charge was revised following the death of Allen some nine hours later 
at a Hazard hospital.

Allen, son of Grover Cleveland Allen, widely known Jackson attorney and 
a Democratic candidate for Circuit Judge of the 39th Judical District 
was shot one time.

The bullet went through the left shoulder and penetrated to his spine.  
He never regained consciousness.

It was reported that the two men had never had any known trouble and 
accounts of the shooting vary to a large degree.

The deceased had worked at the Pennington funeral Home since the first 
of the year, following his graduation from an Embalming College at 
Cincinnati.  Several weeks later, he and his family, took up residence at 
Beattyville.

He was a member of the Jackson Christian Chruch and of American Legion 
Post No.84 at Beattyville.  Allen had served with the U.S. Army both 
here and overseas.  He was a quiet, reassuring type of man and made 
friends easily and quickly.  Although having lived in Lee County only a 
comparatively short while, his many friends there as well as Breathitt and 
surrounding counties were shocked and saddened to learn of his death.

Survivors include his father and mother; his wife, Mrs. Ann Gum Allen; 
a two-year-old daughter, Donna Allen; three sisters and six brothers.

Ray and Blake Funeral Home of Jackson had charge of arrangements.



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