Allen D. Dabney, Sr was a prominent Eastland attorney. Services were held at the Hamner Funeral Chapel officiated by Don H. Morris, president of Abilene Christian College, assisted by John H. Bannister, minister of the Skillman Avenue Church of Christ in Dallas. Mr. Dabney spent his childhood days on a stock ranch in Comanche County, and his manhood teaching school in May, Texas. After graduating from the University of Texas law school, he began his long and colorful career as a lawyer in Rising Star, moving to Eastland in 1909 when he was elected Eastland County Attorney. Mr. Dabney was known throughout Texas legal circles as a "fire and brimstone" type of speaker, often using the technique in reference to the jury. His forte was that of a defense lawyer. He was hired at one time as an additional prosecutor in the famous "Hanging Skeleton Case" in the early 1930s. He assisted Eastland County Attorney Grady Owens in handling the case. Mr. Dabney was devoutly religious and had served on the Board of Trustees of Abilene Christian College for 45 years at the time of his death. He was a charter member of the Eastland Church of Christ and was instrumental in the erection of the present Church of Christ building in Eastland in 1919. In his earlier years, he was very active in city affairs serving at one time as President of the Eastland School Board, and Chairman of the Eastland City Commissioni in 1926, drafting the present Eastland City Charter, as amended in 1920. Mr. Dabney was married to Miss Maude Spence on 5 November 1905. Survivors are his wife; three sons - Allen D. Dabney, Jr., James Dabney, Thomas Dabney; one daughter - Geraldine Sullivan; six grandchildren; one sister - Mrs. Joe Howton.