Henry Clay Allen Gravesite
In the winter months of 1898, Allen went to tend to his trap line and did not return. When he did not return, a search party was sent to find him. They located him deceased, sitting up against a tree along the confluence of Silver Creek and the White River.
The search party surmised that Allen had probably succumbed to his death from a heart attack. The search party members built a fire and thawed out his body - frozen in a sitting-up position from the winter snows - (they could not bury him until they could straighten his body out). They buried him at that site with the intent of returning after the spring melt and recovering him back to his family in Buckley.
Allen's daughters met and decided their father was happiest in the mountains and near his trap line. They made an excellent decision and did not have him return down below to the flatlands. They ordered a US Veteran's headstone from the East and had it shipped out. They had the gravesite prepared, and the headstone placed a few years later.
Henry Allen Clay's gravesite is located in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest near Mt. Rainier at the confluence of Silver Creek and the White River, outside of Enumclaw King County, WA.
Message from Tenalquot (46506981)
HC Allen's grave is accessed from the Silver Springs campground on Highway 410. Here are the approximate coordinates: 46.998709, -121.529805
Thank you kindly for providing this information.
