11:52 am Allen takes ‘final’ ride in farm wagon pulled by mule team
Photo by Charles Lipford - The farm wagon and mules with Johnny Reed as driver leaves the church.
Photo by Charles Lipford - The mules and wagon with Allen’s casket arrive at the cemetery.
Bill Allen, longtime Siam dairy farmer, who died earlier this month, was taken to his final resting place by horse and wagon. Allen, who enjoyed farming and growing things, especially loved being around horses. Each spring he hosted a plow-in at one of his Siam properties for fellow farmers and horse lovers, who would bring their horses and mules and plow some new ground.
Photo by Charles Lipford - Several members of the Allen family and friends walked behind the wagon to the Nave Cemetery, located just a short distance from the church.
Allen’s funeral was held a couple of weeks ago on an unusually warm Sunday afternoon for February.
Mike McKinney, a friend of Allen’s, loaned his mules and wagon for the final ride to the Nave Cemetery, located across the road and up the hill from the Siam Baptist Church, where the funeral was held. Johnny Reed sat in the driver’s seat and guided the mules to the burial site. As the mules and wagon left the church with the casket in the back of the wagon, several family members and friends walked behind as a tribute to a man, who had spent most of his life in the fields or barn.
Friends spent Saturday grooming the mules and washing the wagon down for Allen’s final ride.
Once the mules and wagons arrived at the burial site, friends stood somberly as longtime friend, Rev. Burl Sluder, and the church pastor, Rev. Tyler Eiland, paid a final tribute to Allen.
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