Source: Adams Funeral Home
Transcribed by Bettye Odom
Funeral Services For Edgar Allen, 80, Held Monday at Baptist Church
Funeral services for Edgar Allen, 80, a pioneer on the Plains and a public servant for half his four score years, were held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Crosbyton First Baptist Church. Rev. C.E. Dick of Lubbock, a former pastor here, officiated, assisted by Rev. Lloyd Hamilton, pastor of the First Methodist Church.
Burial was in Crosbyton cemetery under direction of King Funeral Home.
Mr. Allen died at 8:45 a.m. Saturday at his home. He had been in poor health for a year.
A native of Lafeyette, Ga., he and his wife moved to the Plains from Wise county in 1903. They taught for two years in Floyd county and then returned to Wise county for several years.
They returned to West Texas in 1909 and settled in Crosby county, where he became cashier of the First National Bank in the old town of Emma. In 1911 he moved with the bank to Crosbyton and remained in the same job until 1915.
In that year Allen was elected county and district clerk of Crosby county, a post he held for 18 years. In 1936 he became tax assessor-collector and clerk of the Crosbyton Independent school district, holding this position until last July when his health failed.
When a dispute arose early in the century about the removal of the courthouse from Emma, he actively advocated the selection of the Crosbyton site. A well educated and well read man, he acted as adviser to many plainsmen when lawyers in this area were scarce. He was an expert mathematician and a competent financial consultant. Several pieces of school legislation were passed by the Texas Legislature which he first instigated.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Alma Allen; a daughter, Miss Lucille Allen of Houston; two sons, Russell Allen of Dallas and Edgar Allen, Jr. of Houston; four grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Geo. Srite of Madison, Miss., and a brother, Errett Allen of Santa Maria, Calif. He also is survived by nieces who he and Mrs. Allen took into their home and reared: Mrs. Dick Harkins, Crosbyton, Miss Joan Russell, Houston, and Miss Haseltine Russell, San Francisco, Calif.
©Crosbyton Review, February, 1952
Alma Allen
HOUSTON (Special) — Services for Mrs. Alma Allen, 95, will be graveside Monday at 3 p.m. at Crosbyton Cemetery with the Rev. Bobby Rine, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Crosbyton, officiating.
King Funeral Home of Crosbyton is handling arrangements there and Earthman´s Funeral Home is handling arrangements here.
Mrs. Allen died at 8:30 a.m. at home in Houston after a lengthy illness.
She and her husband, Edgar, lived in Old Emma prior to 1900. He was a longtime Crosby county official and tax collector for the school district. He died Feb. 2, 1952. Mrs. Allen had lived in the Houston area 21 years.
Survivors include a daughter, Lucille Allen of Houston; a son, Edgar Jr. of Houston; two granddaughters and one great grandchild.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, May 4, 1975
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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