This graveyard is about 100 yards south of the intersection of county roads 305 and 314. It is surrounded by a crop field.
The cemetery is not maintained, and is overgrown in brush, vines and trees.
It appears that there has not been a burial there for several decades. (description entered 01/16/2012)



The cemetery is 4.9 miles north northeast of Sweet Springs, 4.1 miles north northwest of Emma, 5.6 miles south of Blackburn, 3.4 miles south southwest of Elmwood, and is probably most easily accessed from the Emma north exit on Interstate 70. James G. Beattie was first owner of the cemetery property, obtaining a land patent on November 10, 1841. The land was the East half of the Northwest quarter of Section 20 in Township 49, Range 23. James Gilmore Beattie was buried in his cemetery in 1874. Other Beattie family members obtained land patents in the same area. The cemetery was first known as the Beattie family cemetery. The 1876 county plat map shows the cemetery with land ownership by B(enjamin). T. Poe with Beatties as neighbors. The 1896 county plat map marks the cemetery and shows the land under different ownership, with J. H. Poe as nearest resident, marking a house in Section 20 northeast of cemetery.

In the early part of the 20th century, death certificates listed the cemetery name as Poe. Later it was designated Allen Cemetery by the U.S. Geological Survey, named for a later land owner surnamed Allen.

A local historian who inspected the cemetery in 2009 said there appeared to be natural stone markers with no inscriptions, so the number of burials is likely greater than that represented by readable tombstones and death certificates.