Elizabeth was the wife of Martin Allen. Her parents were George Augustine and Anna Catherine Shearer, and she was
born in Stark County, Ohio.
Both families had migrated then to LaSalle County, Illinois, where Elizabeth and Martin Allen married. He had a forestry business. Children Mary Catherine, Anna, and William, died within days of each other. They share the same gravestone with their grandmother, Catherine Winters Allen.
They migrated on to Hays, Kansas, where his prominence grew. There was no cemetery in Hayes, when their young daughter, Clara, died of scarlet fever. Martin Allen donated an acre of his land and asked the city to donate additional land. The Ft. Hayes Army post seemed a likely location. It was then named Mt. Allen Cemetery, and one street bordering it is named Allen Street in his honor.
It is thought by local historians that he marked Elizabeth's grave only with small stones, but it was never marked with a gravestone, originally. The pictured stone appears to be a modern stone added later on.
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born in Stark County, Ohio.
Both families had migrated then to LaSalle County, Illinois, where Elizabeth and Martin Allen married. He had a forestry business. Children Mary Catherine, Anna, and William, died within days of each other. They share the same gravestone with their grandmother, Catherine Winters Allen.
They migrated on to Hays, Kansas, where his prominence grew. There was no cemetery in Hayes, when their young daughter, Clara, died of scarlet fever. Martin Allen donated an acre of his land and asked the city to donate additional land. The Ft. Hayes Army post seemed a likely location. It was then named Mt. Allen Cemetery, and one street bordering it is named Allen Street in his honor.
It is thought by local historians that he marked Elizabeth's grave only with small stones, but it was never marked with a gravestone, originally. The pictured stone appears to be a modern stone added later on.
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Elizabeth was the wife of Martin Allen. Her parents were George Augustine and Anna Catherine Shearer, and she was
born in Stark County, Ohio.
Both families had migrated then to LaSalle County, Illinois, where Elizabeth and Martin Allen married. He had a forestry business. Children Mary Catherine, Anna, and William, died within days of each other. They share the same gravestone with their grandmother, Catherine Winters Allen.
They migrated on to Hays, Kansas, where his prominence grew. There was no cemetery in Hayes, when their young daughter, Clara, died of scarlet fever. Martin Allen donated an acre of his land and asked the city to donate additional land. The Ft. Hayes Army post seemed a likely location. It was then named Mt. Allen Cemetery, and one street bordering it is named Allen Street in his honor.
It is thought by local historians that he marked Elizabeth's grave only with small stones, but it was never marked with a gravestone, originally. The pictured stone appears to be a modern stone added later on.
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born in Stark County, Ohio.
Both families had migrated then to LaSalle County, Illinois, where Elizabeth and Martin Allen married. He had a forestry business. Children Mary Catherine, Anna, and William, died within days of each other. They share the same gravestone with their grandmother, Catherine Winters Allen.
They migrated on to Hays, Kansas, where his prominence grew. There was no cemetery in Hayes, when their young daughter, Clara, died of scarlet fever. Martin Allen donated an acre of his land and asked the city to donate additional land. The Ft. Hayes Army post seemed a likely location. It was then named Mt. Allen Cemetery, and one street bordering it is named Allen Street in his honor.
It is thought by local historians that he marked Elizabeth's grave only with small stones, but it was never marked with a gravestone, originally. The pictured stone appears to be a modern stone added later on.
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