The Breeze – July 13, 1911 – Page 7

Died on the Train.

Undertaker Wickersham received a telegram last Friday to meet the train upon its arrival, and when it came it was learned that Mr. R. F. Allen, of City Point, below Jacksonville, had died shortly after the train left Pensacola. He had been west for a couple of years and realizing that the end was near was trying to return home before it came.

The body was taken from the train and prepared for shipment and sent on that night.

Mr. Allen was a member of the Knights of Phythias and the local lodge rendered what aid they could to the bereaved wife and escorted the body to the train. Monday Mr. Beach received a letter from the secretary of Mr. Allen’s lodge expressing their thanks for the attentions shown Mrs. Allen.

[Contributed by Michael Strickland]

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