A.P. Allen came to Ft. Calhoun, Washington County, Nebraska, March 1856, and opened a store where now is the track of the N.W. RR between the pump and station building. In 1860 he went to Missouri and returned in 1870 and purchased a home opposite the school house where his wife died Dec. 6, 1880, and was buried here.

Mr. Allen was born in Lee County, Virginia, Dec. 5, 1830, his parents soon after moving to Illinois where he was married in 1855. Soon after coming to Ft. Calhoun he was appointed, with the late Col. Stevens, on a committee to select a site for a cemetery and to those two we are indebted for the selection of the beautiful site they both, with their wives, lie buried. To him, the writer is indebted for many historical facts, some of which we have published in The Pilot and Nebraska state historical reports and also for favors shown us when we were a stranger here. For several years he has been in rather poor health and was under the care of a loving kindness of two of his daughters in Omaha.

The services were held in the Congregational church, Rev. Arnold preaching the sermon. The choir was Albert Hunt, Hugh Stevenson, Mrs. A.W. Clark, Misses Eloise and Anna Couchman, Miss Anna at the organ. Among pioneers present were William Swibart and wife, Charles Steffen and wife, William Allen and wife, Allen Craig and wife, Peter Klindt and wife, Mrs. A.W. Clark, Mrs. John Iverson, Grandma Jipp, Rice Arnold, E.H. Clark, ex-Govenor Crounse, Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. Marion Trisler, Thomas Gilbert, George Neale, Henry Frahm, E.N. Grennel, Aut Beales and others. The flowers were very expensive and beautiful, the day also was beautiful- a fitting sequence to a well spent life. W.H. Woods.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~