Sgt. Abe Allen

The rescue at Cantigny was not the end of Abe Allen's war. The shrapnel wounds stayed with him, and by one account so did exposure to poison gas. Back in Leesville he became a Louisiana state trooper working Vernon Parish, and he died on February 1, 1941, at 44, of heart disease and complications from his wounds. He lies in Leesville Cemetery beside his wife and daughter. A Veterans Administration marker and an American Legion monument, dedicated in 1976, stand at the grave, and a walkway joins it to the highway marker.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kisatchie National Forest: Longleaf Vista — 27 mi
  A free ridge-top overlook and 1.5-mile loop above the 8,700-acre Kisatchie Hills Wilderness on the Longleaf Trail Scenic Byway, in the forest Caroline Dormon helped win in 1930.

More markers nearby

• The Nona Mills Lumber Company — 0.9 mi
• Great Louisiana Maneuvers — 1.1 mi
• Vernon Parish Courthouse — 1.1 mi
• Vernon Parish Founders — 1.1 mi