Lot Title

Location in Cemetery

Section: a     Lot: --     Grave: --

Date of death

Jun-12-1848

Date of birth

Sep-8-1845

Age

Verse (Legibility: G - GOOD)

Safe in Heaven

Veteran Information

No War Periods Served

Veteran: No

Relatives

Son of Israel & Emily H. (Lucas) Allen. Paternal grandson of Stephen and Hannah (Baker) Allen.

Stone Shape

Stone Decoration

Stone Condition

Stone Material

State of Stone

Other Information

On brownstone base. His parents, Israel and Emily H. Allen, are interred at Oak Grove Cemetery in New Bedford. Francis C. “Frank” Allen was born in Westport on September 8, 1845 to New Bedford native Israel Allen and the former Emily Lucas of Plymouth. The couple were married in Westport in November of 1844, and Frank came along 10 months later. Israel initially earned his living as a farmer before finding work as a merchant, a trader, and, finally, a railroad station master in the Taunton-Attleboro area after the Civil War. A second son, George was born in Mew Bedford in 1847. The boy would never get to know his older brother. On June 12, 1848, Frank, at 2 years and 9 months, was killed in an accident with a heavy gate. His body was brought to the graveyard behind the meetinghouse and interred. His stone was given the epitaph, “safe in Heaven”. Later that summer, Emily became pregnant again and delivered another son on May 20, 1849. He, too, was named Frank C. Allen, in honor of his departed brother. This Frank lived to be 93 years old and eventually lived in California. A daughter, Emma Eliza, and another son, Stephen, were born to the Allens in the early 1850s. Israel died in Attleboro in 1894 and Emily passed on two years later. None of the other family members were buried with young Frank, whose stone is among the largest and most ornate among the simple Quaker markers here. Stone repaired 2021. Todd Baptista

Images Toggle all images

06831811933645_n.jpg