(Birth year was more likely around 1852 or 1853, according to census entries. He was not enumerated with the family in the 1850 census, which he should have been if he'd been born in 1849 as noted on the headstone).

Following courtesy of: Margaret Pickett
SAMUEL ALLEN DEAD
Samuel Allen, aged 52 years, died at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home in Empire City. He had only been sick about nine days and his death was due to pneumonia.
Deceased leaves a wife, two sons and two married daughters, one, Mrs. Lillie Peters, lives at Muskogee, I. T., and is expected to arrive here some time this evening.
The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, at the Apostolic Faith Mission, in the Arthur block on Third street. Interment will be in the Empire City cemetery.
The Galena Evening Times, Galena, Kansas, 03 May 1905, Wednesday, Page 3

Samuel Allen who died night before last, was buried this afternoon. Burial was made in the Empire City cemetery.
Galena Weekly Republican, Galena, Kansas, 05 May 1905, Friday, Page 5

Obituary
The following tribute was written in memory of Samuel E. Allen, who died at his home in Empire City, Kansas, May 2, 1905:
We miss among our dearest friends
A dear familiar face,
A loving one from us has gone
Oh! Who can fill his place?
The voices of the dear ring out
Upon the open air,
And other forms glide swiftly by
But our loved one is not there.
Samuel, the loved and lost
From earth has passed away,
His work was finished here below
God said, “No longer stay.”
The friends mourn their sad, sad loss
Since this dear one has gone,
But patiently they bear their cross
Saying, “Thy will be done.”
We trust he is an angel there
In yon abode of bliss,
Oh, who could wish to call him back
To such a world as this?
But when life's pilgrimage is done
And all our cares are o'er,
We hope to meet this loved one
Where parting is no more.
A FRIEND
The Galena Evening Times, Galena, Kansas, 09 May 1905, Tuesday, Page 4