Cleveland Allen

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Biography

Cleveland Allen participated in the Second World War. Join: World War II Project Discuss: world_war_II

Military

Sgt. Cleveland served in U. S Army during WW II , he was Inducted on 4 June 1942 where he was stationed at Fort Jackson Rock Hill South Carolina. He was assigned to Battery B 316th Field Artillery Battalion because he was a marksman. His Battalion was shipped to the Southern Philippines, for the Philippine Liberation . After the war he came back to America to Fort McPherson Georgia and signed his seperation papers on 12 Jan 1946 where he received an Honorable Discharge.

Medals

• American Service Medal
• Asiatic Pacific Service Medal
• 2 Bronze Stars
• Philippine Liberation Ribbon with 1 Bronze Star
• Good Conduct Medal
• WWII Victory Medal

Life After the War

Upon returning home from the war Cleveland bought him a 113 acre farm, where he raised cattle, horses, chickens, rabbits, hogs, goats, sheeps, geese, and ducks. My mother and him got married when I was only 3 years old. Life on the farm was hard because Cleveland was old school. We made everything we needed, butter, cheese etc..He let nothing go to waste..need beef kill a cow etc. We grew huge gardens , canned or froze everything. All the while he held down a full time job where he drove a truck for Goldkist for some 30 years.

Cleveland retired from Goldkist and was a mechanic for Clarke County School bus. One day he was under a bus working on brakes when the bus driver got in bus and drove over him breaking both legs and a few ribs, he was hospitalized for weeks.

In 1982 Cleveland started having chest pains and was rushed to Athens Regional Hospital were they said it was a heart attack. They did open heart surgery and put in a pacemaker. So after that he slowly started selling off the animals,

On Jan 27, 1999 Cleveland was sitting on swing on front porch told my son Jonathan he was going inside to eat some oatmeal cookies my mom had gotten him ( he loved those thing), fixed him a cup of coffee sat down and went to sleep peacefully, my son was only 16 years old went in to the house , but didn't know he had passed until he accidently knocked his coffee over. they were home alone my mother had went to the drug store to get his medicine, he was 80 years old.

Obituary

Cleveland Dewitt Allen, 79 of 2296 Highway 29 South died Wednesday, Jan 27, 1999. A native of Madison Co, Mr. Allen of the son of the late Jesse Newton Allen and Hattie Wright Allen of Madison Co. He was retired from Goldkist. He was a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church.

Services will be at 3pm. Saturday at Lord & Stephens Funeral Home in Danielsville, with the Revs Ray Jenkins And David McDonald officiating. Burial will be at Meadows Baptist Church Cemetery. Survivors include his wife Barbara J Allen : four Daughters, Elaine Threlkeld . Ila, Dawn Renea Allen of Colbert, Deborah Epps of Athens, Donna Thompson of Hull, A son Douglas Dewitt Allen, Athens, a sister Annie Allen Graham of Hull , three brothers Jewell Allen Charlotte N.C , Roy Allen York S.C, and Mark Allen of Valdosta : six grandchildren; Ginger Akins, Tanisha Akins , Amy Allen. Jonathan McGill, Steven Kesler, and Clifford Wheeler. Two great grandchildren. nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Eldon Allen, Kyle Guntharp , Neil Smith, Scott Lester, Cornelius Brown and Harold Adams. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 pm today at the funeral home.

Burial: Meadow Baptist Church Cemetery in Madison Co GA Find A Grave Memorial# 55844858

I have all his World War II records and lots of pictures of him.

Sources

• First hand as he was my stepfather.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch *(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ62-TLF : accessed 9 December 2016), Cleveland D Allen in household of Jessie Allen, Pocotalago, Madison, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 85, sheet 3B, line 92, family 51, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 268; FHL microfilm 1,820,268.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:34FZ-MMM : accessed 4 February 2018), Dewitt Allen in household of Jessie N Allen, Pocotalago, Madison, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 9, sheet 18A, line 6, family 294, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 374; FHL microfilm 2,340,109.

• United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K1M3-NTW : 23 May 2014), Cleveland D Allen, Residence, Colbert, Georgia, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKY-6HQZ : 13 December 2015), Cleveland Dewitt Allen, 1999; Burial, Comer, Madison, Georgia, United States of America, Meadow Baptist Church Cemetery; citing record ID 55844858, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JPNS-5N1 : 20 May 2014), Cleveland D Allen, 15 Jan 1999; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).