Obituary for Rebecca Jane Lane Allen

Submitted by Sue Chappel, she writes:

Hi Pat,   I received this today from the Bascom Slemp Memorial Library there in Wise County, Virginia.  It only took me 30 years to find  this on her.   I do not as of yet know which newspaper it came from but I did email them back to ask,   they may not answer,  but I just could not wait to add this even though she was not living in Scott County when she died.   She spent most of her life in Scott County before moving to Kentucky and then back to Wise County, Virginia.

AGED WOMAN DIED THURSDAY

Mrs. Rebecca Jane Allen Passes Away at Age 96 Years

Mrs. Rebecca Jane Allen, one of the oldest women in this section, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. P. H. Carr near the L. & H. depot in Big Stone Gap last Thursday at the age of 96 years. She was a native of  Scott county but had been a resident of this place for the past 25 years.

Mrs. Allen was married to Jimmie Allen at the close of the Civil war after he has served in the ranks of the Confederacy. He died in 1912

Mrs. Allen had a large number of friends in her community all of whom knew and loved to call her “grandma.”

Five daughters and one son survive: Mrs. W. A. Sloan and  Mrs. P. H. Carr, Big Stone Gap; Mrs. Jim Lane and Mrs. Will Lane of Pattonsville; Mrs. Jane Head and Brainard Allen of Mooresville, Ind. Also 26 grandchildren, 60 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. She was laid to rest in the cemetery near the extract plant Saturday afternoon.

Rebecca died 18  Mar 1937

The following was sent to me by Anita Johnson, she is looking for information on her Johnson and Hale ancestors.

John (Logan?) Johnson

Samantha Hale Johnson, wife of John Johnson

Herbert Johnson Obit

My Father’s Father’s name was Herbert L. Johnson born in Duffield, VA in 1900. His Father’s name was Dr. John (Logan??) Johnson and his wife’s name Samantha Hale. They had two other sons, Kelly and Byron and somewhere there were Aunts, Ollie Mae/May and Georgia whom lived in Johnson City, TN and Church Hill, TN where they died.

Whether they were related to my Fathers father or his father’s sisters I am not sure at this writing as I’ve forgotten!….But my father said when he was younger, they would visit them.  Both never married and died alone in TN. I remember letters that Ollie Mae would send us from Tennessee back in the early 1970′s. I’ve yet to see the names of Ollie May or Georgia as daughters of any Johnson. Even in older census records after 1910.

My Dad and I are trying to figure out his side of the family, and the photo I am enclosing, the original has on the back: JOHN LOGAN no date or anything. Supposedly it’s of my Great-Grandfather.

Also enclosing a copy of Samantha Hale’s photo, his wife. Both were born around 1874. As I said it shows that, James C. Hale was her father and Barbara Jane Adams was her mothers maiden name.

Perhaps you have heard of Samantha Hale? Maybe some one can shed some light as to whom Samantha Hale’s husband was other then UNKNOWN as stated on Rootsweb.com.

I would appreciate any help you can assist me with.

Thank You,

Anita Johnson

Wilburn Patton Head,
b. January 27, 1879; d. July 14, 1922
from Scott County, VA Newspaper

WILBURN P. HEAD

Wilburn P. Head, who was a native of this county, but who has lived several years in Kentucky, was killed by his horse on his farm in Lee County, KY., where he had gone from his home in Richmond to see about some matters on his farm, on Friday afternoon, July 14. He was in a field among his cattle when his horse suddenly kicked him in the breast, from which he died the following morning.

This was a shock to his many friends in Scott County, as there has not been a more manly man, with stronger traits of character, went out from our people than Wilburn P. Head. Everybody who knew him admired and liked him. He was the son of the late H. P. Head and was reared below Speers Ferry, this county in Robinett Valley. He will be recalled by many here several years ago as a student at Shoemaker College, also by many of his school friends when at William and Mary College. Later he left college and went to Idaho and was engaged in the sheep business there for several years; returned from there and married Miss Mollie Stephenson, daughter of the late J. W. Stephenson, near Speers Ferry. He then engaged for a while in the mercantile business at Appalachia, and later in merchandising and farming in Kentucky. To this marriage four daughters were born. He has been successful in business and always made friends where he went. He has several relatives in Scott County, J. H. Peters, of the Peoples National Bank, being his cousin and boyhood friend. He leaves one brother, H. H. Head of Appalachia, and one sister, Mrs. Paralee Darter, of Church Hill.

It is very sad from the human side of life that such things occur. With our limited vision we cannot always understand them. But we do admit that “There is a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we may.” There is a Providence working in all and through all the affairs of life. We do not understand it all now, but “Some day we’ll know and understand it all.”
“Never the spirit was born, the spirit shall cease to be never!
Never the time it was not, end and beginning are dreams.
Birthless, and deathless, and changeless abideth the spirit forever.
Death cannot touch it at all, dead though the house of it seems.”

A rose impaled upon a somber cross
We hold as sign of immortality,
And each of us from some Gethsemane
must pass alone to this dread Calvary.
Eternal life is only won through pain
And sorrow, like the Man of Galilee,
We needs must suffer if we wish to gain
The vision grand and set the spirit free.
—-J. H. P.

Wilburn was the son of Hezekiah Patton Head
Submitted by Debbie Hunt

Daughter of Drucilla Allen Stapleton and J.E. Stapleton.  Grand daughter of James Allen and Rebecca Lane.

Children: Daughter Bulah Benton Alms, and sons John and Don Benton.

Courtesy of Randal Cecil Stapleton.

Amanda was the daughter of John Clendenin and Mary Neal that married in Scott County and headed West to MO.,when Amanda and her twin sister Esther were small.  Esther died during the trip and their Mother Mary died shortly after they arrived.

I believe this Mary Neal to be a sister to my 4x great grandmother Esther Jane Neal and her brother Hezekiah Neal (who I also am pretty sure are children of Calvin/Colvan Neal, son of Patrick Neal that died in Rockbridge Co. VA in 1802)

Mary Neal Clendenin’s children were:

Hezekiah P. Clendenin, Elizabeth Clendenin, Mary Emiline Clendenin, John Clendenin, Amanda Jane Clendenin, Esther Ann Clendenin, Lorina F. Clendenin, and William CALVIN Clendenin.

Sent to me by Randal Cecil Stapleton son of Starling Stapleton, grandson of Drucilla Allen Stapleton Lane.

Starling R Stapleton Obituary

Bessie C Stapleton obit

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Drucilla Lane Obituary

Sent to me by Randal Cecil Stapleton son of Starling Stapleton, grandson of Drucilla Allen Stapleton Lane.

Sarah C. HILL COWDEN Obituary

Sheila writes,

The Obit tells a lot, but I would like to add that the Headline says Mrs. R.C. Cowden, and the Obit say’s R.H. Cowden. R.H. is correct.

Her husband was Robert H. Cowden the son of Calvin and Polly Snavley Cowden.
Robert and Sarah Day Cowden were the parents of Lucy A. Cowden that married Elbert Allen.
Elbert Allen was the son of Samuel Nathaniel Allen and Elizabeth Greear.
And Samuel Nathaniel Allen was the son of John Allen and Esther Jane Neil.

Sarah was the sister of Benjamin Craton Hill.

The children of Elbert Allen and Lucy A. Cowden were:
Martha Elizabeth Allen b. Aug 1881
Oscar S. Cowden b. 17 Nov 1883
Robert Calvin Allen b. 3 Nov 1885
Callie K. Allen b. March 1888
Willard F. Allen b. 20 March 1891
Victoria S. Allen b. Sept 1895
Mary Margaret Allen b.12 Feb 1892 Scott Co Va.
Nellie M. Allen b. June 1898
Emily Elsie Allen b. 1903

Samuel Nathaniel Allen was a brother to my 3x great grandfather James Allen that married Rebecca Lane.

Submitted by Sheila Allen-Winterberg