This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ALLAN, DUNLAP, MUTCH, TOMPKINS, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ih.2ADE/1188 Message Board Post: Obit James Allan Is Taken By Death; Funeral Today Prominent Farmer Passes Away Sunday Afternoon Near Lynnville James Allan, highly respected and long time resident of Mrogan county passed away at 2:05 o'clock Sunday afternoon, Aug. 16, 1931, at his home three miles east of Lynnville. He was 80 years old. In his passing the county looses one of its best known and substantial citizens. Mr. Allan's life was one of work, service and friendship. He was a genial, robust man who made friends easily and retained them through his life. He was born at Bathgate, Scotland, March 31, 1851, a son of Peter & Jane Dunlap Allan. His father was a baker by trade and the family came to Morgan county when James Allan was two years old. Peter Allan was for some years a baker at the Illinois School for the Deaf when that institution was in its infancy. Mr. Allan was united in marriage with Christina O. Mutch of near Murryville when a young man. Practically all of his life was devoted to farming. He resided in Jacksonville for a few years, but returned to the farm where his interests were centered. He was a man of excellent habits and lived religiously, taking an active part in movements for the betterment of his community and county. He was a member of Wesley Chapel M. E. church of the Jacksonville circuit. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Christina Allan; five children, Mrs. S. J. Tompkins, Springfield; James Wilbert Allan, Jacksonvillle; Mrs. Ernest Million, Murryville; Mrs. Leslie Lewis, Jacksonville, and Mrs. Allan Gordon, Lyle, Minn. Brothers and sister surviving are John R. Allan, Jacksonville; Mrs. Margaret Middleton, Jacksonville; Robert P. Allan, Riggston; Mrs. Agnes Scott, Woodson, and Mrs. Mary Sturdy, Lynnville. The funeral will be conducted at the family residence east of Lynnville at two o'clock this afternoon. Interment will be made in Diamond Grove cemetery.