Death of Frank Allen – Uncle Frank ALLEN, the old colored blacksmith, whom nearly every citizen of Bristol has known for year, died last Saturday night of dropsy.  Frank was somewhere about 60 or 70 years old, and had amassed quite a little fortune for an old darkey.  He was quite eccentric in his ways, and was one of the institutions of Bristol. 

Source:  Bristol News, 29 Jan 1878, pg. 3. Available via ChroniclingAmerica.loc.gov.