Long forgotten, the Robert Allen Family Cemetery on the former plantation of Robert Allen and his wife Susan (Calcote) Allen is situated just off the Jack Road in the northwestern corner of Copiah County, Mississippi 7 or 8 miles south of Utica.  It is located in Section 11 of Township 2 North, Range 4 West and is mentioned in a recorded Deed having Washington C. Allen and Robert K. Allen, as grantors, wherein they reserve 2 acres as the family cemetery.

In 1987 I visited the cemetery with cousins Bob and Debra Allen and transcribed all of the tombstones that we could access and read.  I have no doubt that the three sons of Robert and Susan Allen who all died in 1859-60 are buried there, although we didn't see markers for them - Robert K. Allen, Washington C. Allen and William H. Allen. 

Here is what was found:

Robert Allen
April 15, 1803
April 1, 1843

Susan E. Vance
daughter of John F. Vance and Dicy Vance
March 24, 1849
November 16, 1858

Dicy
wife of J. F. Vance
February 15, 1827
July 29, 1851
F.N.D.O.Z.B.T.K.C.  in circular form around the letters A.M.R.Y.
(Fear Not Daughter of Zion, Behold the King Cometh and an anagram of MARY)
This unusual inscription appears to be for a female who is a part of a Masonic Order in the southern states being honored for her service to the organization.

James C. Allen  (presumed to be a son of Robert & Susan)
November 15, 1831
October 28, 1842

Martha E. Allen  (presumed to a daughter of Robert & Susan)
August 24, 1842
July 27, 1845

Celia A. Allen  (presumed another daughter of Robert & Susan)
May 18, 1839
October 31, 1839

Mary J.
consort of William H. Allen
died August 19, 1859

Eliza C. Allen
daughter of W.H. and M.J. Allen
February 21, 1853
October 6, 1854

James Franklin _________
a native of Fairfield District,
South Carolina
son of John & Charity _______
who departed this life
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ALLEN FAMILY OF COPIAH COUNTY

Robert Allen

April 15, 1803

April 1, 1843

Dicy Allen

daughter of Robert & Susan Allen, wife of J. F. Vance

(1827-1851)

Robert Allen

April 15, 1803 - April 1, 1843

On March 13, 1823 Robert Allen, a Kentucky native, married Miss Susannah "Susan" Calcote, a daughter of John Calcote, Sr. They were married in Franklin County, Mississippi by James Calcote, Justice of the Peace. John Calcote, Sr., a native of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, was a very early settler of Franklin County, Mississippi.

Robert and Susan (Calcote) Allen were the parents of at least seven children:

Eugenia Allen, died before 1852

Dicy Allen, 1827-1851, was the wife of J. F. Vance, publisher/editor of The Copiahan newspaper.

Susan Allen, born in 1825, married Daniel K. Coor in 1847.

William H. Allen, born in 1829, married Mary Jane McRae. Mary Jane died in 1859 and is buried in the Robert Allen Family Cemetery.

Stephen J. Allen, Jr. was named for his uncle, Stephen J. Allen. Stephen J. Allen, Jr. was born on August 7, 1832 and died April 5, 1896.

Washington C. Allen, became a medical doctor, and died unmarried about December 23, 1859.

Robert K. Allen was born about 1836 and died before 1862.

After the death of Robert Allen, his widow Susan married John C. Morton.  John C. Morton died in December 1862.  Susannah (Calcote) Allen Morton died the 2nd of December, 1869.  At her death she was survived by two of her seven children: Susan Coor and Stephen J. Allen; as well as three grandchildren: Robert J. Allen, William L. Allen and Eliza E. Allen.

The Robert Allen Family Cemetery - almost completely destroyed by the ravages of time - was copied by me in the summer of 1987. At that time it was on property owned by Theron and Ilene Carraway in Section 11, Township 2 North, Range 4 West. Cattle were grazing and walking over the graves.

This is Stephen J. Allen, Jr., a son of Robert and Susan Allen, and named for his father's brother, Stephen J. Allen, Sr. Stephen J. Allen, Jr. first married Margaret M. Fulgham, and after her death, married Mrs. Nancy E. Brown.

One of the markers in Allen Cemetery:

Sacred to the memory

JAMES FRANKLIN _________

son of

John & Charity ________