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Robert Van Allen - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From The Tallulah Madison Journal (LA), Saturday, December 16, 1916

Mr. Robert Van Allen died suddenly at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. D. Sevier at Islington 
Plantation in this parish. Mr. Allen though past 80 years of age has been in good health and his 
sudden death was a shock to his friends and relatives.

Mr. Allen was a native of Georgia, having been born in Macon 80 years ago. He served in the 
Confederate Army. He moved to Georgia to Mississippi to which later his remains were conveyed for 
burial last night.