EARLVILLE, Ill. — For a sixth-generation farmer, the best way to propose to his future bride was with a banner draped on a combine at harvest time.
Jared Allen proposed to his now wife, Kayla, through a banner on a combine at her family’s farm. Roots in agriculture run deep for the sixth-generation farmer.
Jay Allen has the original deed which dispels an earlier family belief that great-great-great-grandfather Henry Warren Willey was a homesteader.





