Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

OBITUARY

Zelda Williams Allen was born near Oakland City, Ind., Nov. 1, 1879 and departed from this life May 16, 1901, with that dreaded disease, consumption. She professed faith in Christ at the age of 15 and joined the G. B. church of which she was a devoted member at the time of her death. She has always lived the life of a true Christian and bore her suffering with meekness, never murmured or complained, but often expressed a willingness to go when the summons came. She knew every thing to the last and she had told her aunt some days before her death, that if heaven was revealed to her and she could not speak , she would point to it, and taking each member of the family by the hand and bidding them good by she became so she could not speak, and she lifted her hand and pointed one finger toward heaven and gently let her hand fall over on her face and died with her finger pointing up. She was married to Geo. B. Allen May 10, 1899. She leaves a husband, father, mother and two brothers and a host of friends to mourn her early death, but what is their loss is her gain. O what a blessed assurance it is to die the death of the righteous. Her funeral was preached at the residence by Rev. Delaplain after which the remains were followed to the grave by a large procession of sorrowing friends and laid to rest in the cemetery near town to await the resurrection morn. – E. D.