Margaret Elizabeth Allen Tighlman was the daughter of James Allen and Elizabeth Lawrence. She was the wife of William Tilghman. They were married July 1, 1798 in Philadelphia, PA. She died in childbirth on September 9, 1798. Her daughter, Elizabeth Margaret Tilghman married Benjamin Chew of "The Chews" of Philadelphia, in that city. Elizabeth Margaret Tilghman Chew, like her mother, Margaret Tilghman Allen, died during childbirth. She died in Philadelphia on June 16, 1817 giving birth to her son William Tilghman Chew. William Tilghman Chew died at the age of three. It is wriitten that when the reamins of Margaret Allen Tilghman were exhumed in 1903, after 105 years of interrment, strands of her auburn hair that charmed the beaus of Philadelphia were still recognizable. Her reamins were deposited in a special crypt located underneath the church tower of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church located at 38 South 8th. Street in Allentown, PA. A plaque located near the crypt honoring Margaret Allen Tilgham reads: Endowed with warm affection and an excellent understanding, she enjoyed the flattering prospect of a useful and happy life, but it pleased Almighty God Whose Providence tho' unsearchable is all wise, that she should be cut off, in the flower of her youth from this transitory world. She died surrounded by friends. Margaret Elizabeth Allen Tilghman's granfather William Allen and her husband William Tilghman were both Chief Justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The Tilghman Family is a famous Maryland family. According to a WFMZ article, "No less a figure than John Adams's wife Abigail had hailed the three Allen girls as part of the "constellation of beauty" that brightened the national capital of Philadelphia. But now an early death had darkened one of those beautiful auburn-haired stars."