The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-07
THE LATE SAMUEL |. ALLEN.
A Harris County Pioneer.

tory
Tbey saw a noble work TO do,
That brave and earnest band.
.nir,t Of new life and Gr5wth
They breathed into the land.
vubsr oioneers forerunncrs. came
To lead the way at early date,
Where cities fair and fertiis farms
4 Now flourish in our state.
r,sre once the Indian wgwarn stood.
IND buffalo we're seen
A rive nanthers howled on pralriss lone.
AND deer dwelt in the forest green.
,v,,,ir our goodly Texas home.
"fst MT their memory die,
| W. ioye TO think that what we reap,
"rbsv sowed in days gone BY.
:. NAV be Justly said OF Samuel L. Allen
49,, coming to the country, as he did,
,rn, or nine years after the beginning
1, tho Hrst Anglo American settlements,
"a saw the tyranny of an alien people
90 Mace to government Of equal laws
uch as the descendants of the Angle,
saxon and conquering Norman alone will
ield obedience to, cities rise in valley
nd upon plain, the opening of farms and
anches. and many handed industry make
3rom remote wilderness to populous
nd mighty State, by daily press, by wire
nd rail and ocean steam craft in con-
,ant touch with the thought, purpose,
commerce and ever accelerating, globe
8ncircllng, swift forward moving of the
lace.
Nor did he see alone. His brain ana
and wrought faithfully and well to bring
tbcut the change.
The great drama of the worlds advance
as been unfolding since the cave men
nd the forest jewellers first essayed the
assertion of mans supremacy, with club
nd nt-tipped spear and arrow, till the
our that the shade of destiny now marks
pom the dial-plate of time, and the plot
ill deepen and grow richer with the
$omng years. Amid the multitude of
Hctors. the many have been but the instru-
bents of the few who have played the
eading parts. The present and the fu-
hire are but the outgrowth of, and owe
debt Of gratitude to, the past
4 The Texas of today is such as men
Tho now rest in death from toll have made
and to them should be set aside
hEe IN the SCROLL Ol history worthy Oh
heir fame--a page that will inspire the
ben of this and coming ages to worthily
year the consecrated mantle that has
bllen from other shoulders upon their
wn and worthily take up the work of
uman progress where hands that labored
the last and now are stiffened by the
bill OF death have left it off and carry it
brward to the attainment, in the end, of
lstics. mercy, comfort, liberty and com
lete happiness mot alone in the shadow
bnd beyond the grave, but upon this
birth for man.
IA When the troops under Braddock were
mhushed and being slaughtered and that
fhcer had fallen momally wounded
l. Washington saved the remnant of the
bmmand. He had three horses shot from
Under him. He was everywhere in the
3bickest of the melee. The firing was at
= Aose quarters, the savage enemy aiming
eliberately from behind the trunks of
88rest trees OF a commanding figure,
Mounted and giving orders, he was a con-
p!cuous mark, yet was untouched by a
S&lllet; this, too when several Indians
2Hoording to statements afterward made by
EN-, singled him out for death.
IN washington later, as commander-in-
hlef Of the armies of the revolution, won
american independence was the first
Resident of the United States and left
hind him fame that is the proudest
ast of the greatest of all republics, of
her ancient or modern times
M The conqueror of India for the British,
hen poor and Respondent clerk in the
Hhce of the British East India company
ice attempted his life, placing the muz-
e M a loaded pistol In his mouth and
Hing the trigger and in each instance
f4e weapon, although carefully loaded
fNas not discharged After the second at
<fmpt Ia very reprehensible and criminal
we it Is granted), he concluded that
~ ere was a future before him and in a
orr time embarked upon a career that,
pateVer criticisms may be passed upon
character and actions, resulted in ad-
pig vast and valuable territory to the
itish dominions. opening up a previous
unknown land to civilization and Chris
unity and laying the foundation for a
mmerce that enriched his native land
mighty work for one man to accom-
iSh, truly
is not given to the finite mind of man
NIX me metes and bounds within which
evidence predestines that certain men
an move, nor the sequence of events
On relation to their living, yet there is
ning SO generally observed as the fact
at they are snatched, In many instances,
IN tne very jaws of death and pre-
yea Tor and led TO the important work
I'm. ~ ps'
DIS is strikingly illustrated by an in
nee that occurred in the early child
"a CT the subject of this memoir.
ne Wat born in 1908, the second son of
and and Sarah Chapman Allen in the
iage or Chittiningo, Madison county,
S<&'N men he was years of age an older
& dh apprentice to a tanner and currier
W ue village, took him to a pasture and
#fN ulh 10 remain near the fence while
PIX une apprentice) went in search of
ne horses his master had ordered him
u''Ve IN and promised that when these
procured they would have ride
81 70 town. The apprentice then gall
80 on. An apple tree loaded with fruit
& near at hand. 1t forked close to the
wa and Sam had little trouble in
2{ hg nigh enough among the limbs to
H an apple. The field belonged to
Denny an educated Indian, partly
III "nite descent, lawyer by profession.
. an excellent citizen. His residence
situated on hillside and commanded
ew OF the pasture. His wife. a wo-
= Vi uhgovernable temper and the vim
w ana cruel nature of an untamed
es' saw the child. ran to the pasture,
su MN down, with a blow knocked his
~ ~ out and, then, insane with fury,
|<f neIed stones with which she continued
& his body.
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