The Mena weekly star., 1906-08-02
AS TO THE LIFE OF MRS. ALLEN
.sWho has not lost a friend,
IISI p Iss IIU uIIIUIl Nefe Of hef That has not hara an apd !,

A oN . btSi " DaNlu ana Nate Moncrief, who so sweetly passed into the life beyond on Friday fnorning. July %, was born ir Scott county, Mississippi, on the .20th day Of Auguse 1873. In 1887 her parents moved to farm near 'Corsicana, Tex, where her moth. CT still lives. In 1890 she pro. fessed faith in Christ and united with the Baptist church, of which she remained an active and useful member until the time of her death.
 She was blessed with a splen- did parentage, and, though she modestly forbore to boast of it., she was connected, through her mother, with many of the first families of the south, and lead. ing public men of the day.
 As child she was unusually bright and precocious. She was admitted to Ouachita college in 1890, and 1t was here that she met Mir. $. H. Allen, whom she afterward married. Both are graduates of Ouachita college and these who know them need not be told that they easily rank ed with the best in the student body of that college.
 In 1895 Mrs. Allen was award ed the medal for highest scholar ship, distinction which has been accorded a woman only three times during the twenty years of Ouachita's history.
 In 1896 she was married to Mir. $. H. Allen of Goldthwaite, Tex. As the issue of this marriag e there have been three children, two of whom, as we'll as their father, survive her. Since her marriage much of her time has been devoted tt teaching, work which she dearly loved. Briefly, this has been her life, but within this brief outline there has been a round, rich, full, sweet life.
 Possessed of a spirit sweet and happy, and distinctively honest and sincere, she, of all the people whom l have known, can say truly, most hated shams and lies and dishonesty in all forms. Her whole mind sought eagerly after the great truths of existence which she grasped with a clear ness of comprehension by no means common and applied con- scientionsly to her own life. She longed to make herself useful in the uplifting and betterment of the world. To mould and de- velop human character, her own as we'll as that of others, was the intense desire of her heart. and to this end she worked actively and with rare intelligence Tn the home, the church, the school and the social world. An inspiration to strive upward seemed to emu late from her and only eternity can reveal the full measure of her noble influence.
 With disposition of unusual gentleness, combined with such strength and loftiness of charac- ter, it IS not strange that her nature became strongly and help fully intertwined with that of her husband. Their years together were rich in that strength which is born of absolute unity. It was not at all strange to those who knew them well that his eyes were upon the poem beg lnning with these words:
 "Since she went home how still the
 empty room her presence blessed;' when the telegram announcing her sudden and serious illness was handed to him.
 The end came as sweetly and peacefully as she had lived use- fully. She had no desire to leave her loved ones, nor did she Tn any wise shrink from the duties and work of life; yet she dreaded not the grim monster, and answered the last summons as a dutiful child of God and with an ap- parent realization that the joys of the life eternal would far sur pass the heeting pleasures ot this earth. She went to sleep as sweetly as babe in its mothers arms. In circle which IS large indeed her place can never De flied. Words are too weak to express our sense of loss. We feel that we cannot let her go. But we have left a wealth of sweet and sacred memories, aud a most precious hope of blessed re- nniou. She is not dead, but gone