Henry and Susie are buried side by side. To find their graves, approach the cemetery from Greenlawn Street, enter at the far left (gravel extension of DeAnn Street) and take the first right turn (gravel extension of Bryant Street). Their graves will be on your right, about midway between DeAnn Street and the center access road, and about 1/3 of the distance in from Bryant Street to Greenlawn Street.
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Biography written by Evelyn Park Blalock, with assistance from John H. Hesterly and Patricia Allen Park. Please do not publish elsewhere without providing full and proper credit. Thank you.
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Henry Harrison Allen Sr. was born in Attica, Lapeer County, Michigan, to Luman Nathan Allen and Mary Atwell. His wife, Susannah Catherine Boughner, was born in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. They met while Henry was working as a master sawyer at the Stephens Lumber logging operation in Saint Helen, Michigan. Susie and her three younger sisters had been living with their parents in Marlette, Michigan, but the girls were sent to live with relatives near West Branch a few years after the untimely death of their mother. After this family faced financial hardship, Susie sought employment to help support her sisters, working as a cook at the logging camp. Henry and Susie were courting by May 1892, when he traveled to visit with her father at his current home in Valley Center, Michigan. They were married in West Branch, Ogemaw County, Michigan, on 7 October 1893.
Within a year, Henry had accepted a new position with Stephens Lumber to help expand and improve their operations in Waters, Otsego County, Michigan, where oldest children Glenn, Buel, and Thorne were born. By 1899, the operations in Waters consisted of about 100 homes, a depot for the Michigan Central Railroad, a post office, a church, a school, a general store, a company office, a boarding house, two saw mills, and a planing mill, with logging operations in the near vicinity connected by 18 miles of railroad track with two locomotives. But, no matter how well-appointed the mill was, it was still COLD!
Weary of the long cold Michigan winters, Henry decided to seek employment in a more southerly region. As a highly respected master sawyer, he was soon hired by Long Bell Logging to begin work at a state-of-the-art mill they were opening in Yellow Pine, Webster Parish, Louisiana. This subsidiary was called Globe Lumber Company. In 1903, Henry moved to Yellow Pine and began saving money to relocate his wife and children. Soon, Henry and Susie were reunited in Louisiana, where their youngest child, Henry Jr., was born in 1907. In addition to Henry Sr.'s contributions to the commercial operation of the mill, two notable projects were completed during his tenure as master sawyer that remain standing today -- the Union Church (aka Yellow Pine Church, GPS coordinates of +32.47768, -93.32296) and the Yellow Pine School (aka Yellow Pine Inn, GPS coordinates of +32.48293, -93.31511). These structures were constructed with volunteer labor by the loggers for use by their families. They stand on Yellow Pine Road and have both been added to the National Register of Historic Places (Reference #94001562 and 04001081).
In 1912, logging operations in Yellow Pine were winding down. Henry found a new position and relocated with his family to Arkansas, settling first in Warren County and then in Prescott, Nevada County. The couple purchased a home and property at the corner of First Street and Vine. When Henry retired from his last logging position, with Ozan Lumber Company, he decided to capitalize on the rising popularity of automobiles, constructing a filling station on the south corner of his property. Appearing on the Sandborn Fire Insurance Map in 1924, the Allen Tire Company and Gas Station offered Magnolia and then Texaco gasolines, serving Prescott residents and travelers. After Henry Sr.'s death in 1936, the station continued to operate, first under the direction of Henry Jr. and then daughter Thorne, who had moved home with her children after the untimely death of her husband.
The Allen Tire Company and Gas Station was also included in the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and the National Register of Historic Places, distinctive with its early Craftsman-styled architecture (please see photo, taken by Wayne Kizziar in 2010 and used with permission). The station's location at the corner of First Street and Vine (one block from the railroad depot, and at the edge of the commercial district, with GPS coordinates of +33.80151, -93.38244) made it visible to motorists of Prescott and beyond in the early days of car travel. For decades, that same location and the preservation of the building's interesting arched car shelter made it a community landmark. It was posted to the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C, "Highway History and Architecture, 1910-1965" on 25 May 2001 (Reference #01000523). Sadly, the family home was demolished in 1996, and the gas station was destroyed by fire in 2018.
Henry and Susie were adored by their children and grandchildren. They are remembered, and they are missed.
Children (complete list):
Col. Glenn Luman Allen
Buel Martin Allen
Thorne Lettitia Allen Hesterly
Henry Harrison Allen Jr.
Additional Note:
Henry Stephens, founder of Stephens Lumber, had a summer home in Macomb County, where he knew Henry Allen's grandfather, Alvin. Their acquaintance continued when Alvin and his family moved to Lapeer County, where Henry Stephens owned a mercantile and a sawmill. Several of Alvin's sons and grandsons worked in sawyering and related industries for Henry Stephens and his family... in Lapeer, Saint Helen and then Waters.
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Biography written by Evelyn Park Blalock, with assistance from John H. Hesterly and Patricia Allen Park. Please do not publish elsewhere without providing full and proper credit. Thank you.
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Henry Harrison Allen Sr. was born in Attica, Lapeer County, Michigan, to Luman Nathan Allen and Mary Atwell. His wife, Susannah Catherine Boughner, was born in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. They met while Henry was working as a master sawyer at the Stephens Lumber logging operation in Saint Helen, Michigan. Susie and her three younger sisters had been living with their parents in Marlette, Michigan, but the girls were sent to live with relatives near West Branch a few years after the untimely death of their mother. After this family faced financial hardship, Susie sought employment to help support her sisters, working as a cook at the logging camp. Henry and Susie were courting by May 1892, when he traveled to visit with her father at his current home in Valley Center, Michigan. They were married in West Branch, Ogemaw County, Michigan, on 7 October 1893.
Within a year, Henry had accepted a new position with Stephens Lumber to help expand and improve their operations in Waters, Otsego County, Michigan, where oldest children Glenn, Buel, and Thorne were born. By 1899, the operations in Waters consisted of about 100 homes, a depot for the Michigan Central Railroad, a post office, a church, a school, a general store, a company office, a boarding house, two saw mills, and a planing mill, with logging operations in the near vicinity connected by 18 miles of railroad track with two locomotives. But, no matter how well-appointed the mill was, it was still COLD!
Weary of the long cold Michigan winters, Henry decided to seek employment in a more southerly region. As a highly respected master sawyer, he was soon hired by Long Bell Logging to begin work at a state-of-the-art mill they were opening in Yellow Pine, Webster Parish, Louisiana. This subsidiary was called Globe Lumber Company. In 1903, Henry moved to Yellow Pine and began saving money to relocate his wife and children. Soon, Henry and Susie were reunited in Louisiana, where their youngest child, Henry Jr., was born in 1907. In addition to Henry Sr.'s contributions to the commercial operation of the mill, two notable projects were completed during his tenure as master sawyer that remain standing today -- the Union Church (aka Yellow Pine Church, GPS coordinates of +32.47768, -93.32296) and the Yellow Pine School (aka Yellow Pine Inn, GPS coordinates of +32.48293, -93.31511). These structures were constructed with volunteer labor by the loggers for use by their families. They stand on Yellow Pine Road and have both been added to the National Register of Historic Places (Reference #94001562 and 04001081).
In 1912, logging operations in Yellow Pine were winding down. Henry found a new position and relocated with his family to Arkansas, settling first in Warren County and then in Prescott, Nevada County. The couple purchased a home and property at the corner of First Street and Vine. When Henry retired from his last logging position, with Ozan Lumber Company, he decided to capitalize on the rising popularity of automobiles, constructing a filling station on the south corner of his property. Appearing on the Sandborn Fire Insurance Map in 1924, the Allen Tire Company and Gas Station offered Magnolia and then Texaco gasolines, serving Prescott residents and travelers. After Henry Sr.'s death in 1936, the station continued to operate, first under the direction of Henry Jr. and then daughter Thorne, who had moved home with her children after the untimely death of her husband.
The Allen Tire Company and Gas Station was also included in the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and the National Register of Historic Places, distinctive with its early Craftsman-styled architecture (please see photo, taken by Wayne Kizziar in 2010 and used with permission). The station's location at the corner of First Street and Vine (one block from the railroad depot, and at the edge of the commercial district, with GPS coordinates of +33.80151, -93.38244) made it visible to motorists of Prescott and beyond in the early days of car travel. For decades, that same location and the preservation of the building's interesting arched car shelter made it a community landmark. It was posted to the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C, "Highway History and Architecture, 1910-1965" on 25 May 2001 (Reference #01000523). Sadly, the family home was demolished in 1996, and the gas station was destroyed by fire in 2018.
Henry and Susie were adored by their children and grandchildren. They are remembered, and they are missed.
Children (complete list):
Col. Glenn Luman Allen
Buel Martin Allen
Thorne Lettitia Allen Hesterly
Henry Harrison Allen Jr.
Additional Note:
Henry Stephens, founder of Stephens Lumber, had a summer home in Macomb County, where he knew Henry Allen's grandfather, Alvin. Their acquaintance continued when Alvin and his family moved to Lapeer County, where Henry Stephens owned a mercantile and a sawmill. Several of Alvin's sons and grandsons worked in sawyering and related industries for Henry Stephens and his family... in Lapeer, Saint Helen and then Waters.
Henry and Susie are buried side by side. To find their graves, approach the cemetery from Greenlawn Street, enter at the far left (gravel extension of DeAnn Street) and take the first right turn (gravel extension of Bryant Street). Their graves will be on your right, about midway between DeAnn Street and the center access road, and about 1/3 of the distance in from Bryant Street to Greenlawn Street.
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Biography written by Evelyn Park Blalock, with assistance from John H. Hesterly and Patricia Allen Park. Please do not publish elsewhere without providing full and proper credit. Thank you.
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Henry Harrison Allen Sr. was born in Attica, Lapeer County, Michigan, to Luman Nathan Allen and Mary Atwell. His wife, Susannah Catherine Boughner, was born in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. They met while Henry was working as a master sawyer at the Stephens Lumber logging operation in Saint Helen, Michigan. Susie and her three younger sisters had been living with their parents in Marlette, Michigan, but the girls were sent to live with relatives near West Branch a few years after the untimely death of their mother. After this family faced financial hardship, Susie sought employment to help support her sisters, working as a cook at the logging camp. Henry and Susie were courting by May 1892, when he traveled to visit with her father at his current home in Valley Center, Michigan. They were married in West Branch, Ogemaw County, Michigan, on 7 October 1893.
Within a year, Henry had accepted a new position with Stephens Lumber to help expand and improve their operations in Waters, Otsego County, Michigan, where oldest children Glenn, Buel, and Thorne were born. By 1899, the operations in Waters consisted of about 100 homes, a depot for the Michigan Central Railroad, a post office, a church, a school, a general store, a company office, a boarding house, two saw mills, and a planing mill, with logging operations in the near vicinity connected by 18 miles of railroad track with two locomotives. But, no matter how well-appointed the mill was, it was still COLD!
Weary of the long cold Michigan winters, Henry decided to seek employment in a more southerly region. As a highly respected master sawyer, he was soon hired by Long Bell Logging to begin work at a state-of-the-art mill they were opening in Yellow Pine, Webster Parish, Louisiana. This subsidiary was called Globe Lumber Company. In 1903, Henry moved to Yellow Pine and began saving money to relocate his wife and children. Soon, Henry and Susie were reunited in Louisiana, where their youngest child, Henry Jr., was born in 1907. In addition to Henry Sr.'s contributions to the commercial operation of the mill, two notable projects were completed during his tenure as master sawyer that remain standing today -- the Union Church (aka Yellow Pine Church, GPS coordinates of +32.47768, -93.32296) and the Yellow Pine School (aka Yellow Pine Inn, GPS coordinates of +32.48293, -93.31511). These structures were constructed with volunteer labor by the loggers for use by their families. They stand on Yellow Pine Road and have both been added to the National Register of Historic Places (Reference #94001562 and 04001081).
In 1912, logging operations in Yellow Pine were winding down. Henry found a new position and relocated with his family to Arkansas, settling first in Warren County and then in Prescott, Nevada County. The couple purchased a home and property at the corner of First Street and Vine. When Henry retired from his last logging position, with Ozan Lumber Company, he decided to capitalize on the rising popularity of automobiles, constructing a filling station on the south corner of his property. Appearing on the Sandborn Fire Insurance Map in 1924, the Allen Tire Company and Gas Station offered Magnolia and then Texaco gasolines, serving Prescott residents and travelers. After Henry Sr.'s death in 1936, the station continued to operate, first under the direction of Henry Jr. and then daughter Thorne, who had moved home with her children after the untimely death of her husband.
The Allen Tire Company and Gas Station was also included in the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and the National Register of Historic Places, distinctive with its early Craftsman-styled architecture (please see photo, taken by Wayne Kizziar in 2010 and used with permission). The station's location at the corner of First Street and Vine (one block from the railroad depot, and at the edge of the commercial district, with GPS coordinates of +33.80151, -93.38244) made it visible to motorists of Prescott and beyond in the early days of car travel. For decades, that same location and the preservation of the building's interesting arched car shelter made it a community landmark. It was posted to the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C, "Highway History and Architecture, 1910-1965" on 25 May 2001 (Reference #01000523). Sadly, the family home was demolished in 1996, and the gas station was destroyed by fire in 2018.
Henry and Susie were adored by their children and grandchildren. They are remembered, and they are missed.
Children (complete list):
Col. Glenn Luman Allen
Buel Martin Allen
Thorne Lettitia Allen Hesterly
Henry Harrison Allen Jr.
Additional Note:
Henry Stephens, founder of Stephens Lumber, had a summer home in Macomb County, where he knew Henry Allen's grandfather, Alvin. Their acquaintance continued when Alvin and his family moved to Lapeer County, where Henry Stephens owned a mercantile and a sawmill. Several of Alvin's sons and grandsons worked in sawyering and related industries for Henry Stephens and his family... in Lapeer, Saint Helen and then Waters.
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Biography written by Evelyn Park Blalock, with assistance from John H. Hesterly and Patricia Allen Park. Please do not publish elsewhere without providing full and proper credit. Thank you.
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Henry Harrison Allen Sr. was born in Attica, Lapeer County, Michigan, to Luman Nathan Allen and Mary Atwell. His wife, Susannah Catherine Boughner, was born in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. They met while Henry was working as a master sawyer at the Stephens Lumber logging operation in Saint Helen, Michigan. Susie and her three younger sisters had been living with their parents in Marlette, Michigan, but the girls were sent to live with relatives near West Branch a few years after the untimely death of their mother. After this family faced financial hardship, Susie sought employment to help support her sisters, working as a cook at the logging camp. Henry and Susie were courting by May 1892, when he traveled to visit with her father at his current home in Valley Center, Michigan. They were married in West Branch, Ogemaw County, Michigan, on 7 October 1893.
Within a year, Henry had accepted a new position with Stephens Lumber to help expand and improve their operations in Waters, Otsego County, Michigan, where oldest children Glenn, Buel, and Thorne were born. By 1899, the operations in Waters consisted of about 100 homes, a depot for the Michigan Central Railroad, a post office, a church, a school, a general store, a company office, a boarding house, two saw mills, and a planing mill, with logging operations in the near vicinity connected by 18 miles of railroad track with two locomotives. But, no matter how well-appointed the mill was, it was still COLD!
Weary of the long cold Michigan winters, Henry decided to seek employment in a more southerly region. As a highly respected master sawyer, he was soon hired by Long Bell Logging to begin work at a state-of-the-art mill they were opening in Yellow Pine, Webster Parish, Louisiana. This subsidiary was called Globe Lumber Company. In 1903, Henry moved to Yellow Pine and began saving money to relocate his wife and children. Soon, Henry and Susie were reunited in Louisiana, where their youngest child, Henry Jr., was born in 1907. In addition to Henry Sr.'s contributions to the commercial operation of the mill, two notable projects were completed during his tenure as master sawyer that remain standing today -- the Union Church (aka Yellow Pine Church, GPS coordinates of +32.47768, -93.32296) and the Yellow Pine School (aka Yellow Pine Inn, GPS coordinates of +32.48293, -93.31511). These structures were constructed with volunteer labor by the loggers for use by their families. They stand on Yellow Pine Road and have both been added to the National Register of Historic Places (Reference #94001562 and 04001081).
In 1912, logging operations in Yellow Pine were winding down. Henry found a new position and relocated with his family to Arkansas, settling first in Warren County and then in Prescott, Nevada County. The couple purchased a home and property at the corner of First Street and Vine. When Henry retired from his last logging position, with Ozan Lumber Company, he decided to capitalize on the rising popularity of automobiles, constructing a filling station on the south corner of his property. Appearing on the Sandborn Fire Insurance Map in 1924, the Allen Tire Company and Gas Station offered Magnolia and then Texaco gasolines, serving Prescott residents and travelers. After Henry Sr.'s death in 1936, the station continued to operate, first under the direction of Henry Jr. and then daughter Thorne, who had moved home with her children after the untimely death of her husband.
The Allen Tire Company and Gas Station was also included in the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and the National Register of Historic Places, distinctive with its early Craftsman-styled architecture (please see photo, taken by Wayne Kizziar in 2010 and used with permission). The station's location at the corner of First Street and Vine (one block from the railroad depot, and at the edge of the commercial district, with GPS coordinates of +33.80151, -93.38244) made it visible to motorists of Prescott and beyond in the early days of car travel. For decades, that same location and the preservation of the building's interesting arched car shelter made it a community landmark. It was posted to the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C, "Highway History and Architecture, 1910-1965" on 25 May 2001 (Reference #01000523). Sadly, the family home was demolished in 1996, and the gas station was destroyed by fire in 2018.
Henry and Susie were adored by their children and grandchildren. They are remembered, and they are missed.
Children (complete list):
Col. Glenn Luman Allen
Buel Martin Allen
Thorne Lettitia Allen Hesterly
Henry Harrison Allen Jr.
Additional Note:
Henry Stephens, founder of Stephens Lumber, had a summer home in Macomb County, where he knew Henry Allen's grandfather, Alvin. Their acquaintance continued when Alvin and his family moved to Lapeer County, where Henry Stephens owned a mercantile and a sawmill. Several of Alvin's sons and grandsons worked in sawyering and related industries for Henry Stephens and his family... in Lapeer, Saint Helen and then Waters.
