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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Artie Allen: Birth: 4 Mar 1837 in Camden,Oneida,NY,USA. Death: 3 Jun 1852

  2. Marsena Allen: Birth: 26 Dec 1838 in Florence,Oneida,NY,USA. Death: 4 May 1862

  3. Emery S. Allen: Birth: 16 Nov 1840 in Florence,Oneida,NY,USA. Death: 26 Feb 1909

  4. Dency Lovina Allen: Birth: 10 Dec 1842 in Camden,Oneida,NY,USA. Death: 9 Sep 1887

  5. Rachel Antoinette Allen: Birth: 16 Feb 1845 in Amboy,NY,USA. Death: 2 Oct 1926 in Ontario,Ontario,NY,USA

  6. Eunice Jane Allen: Birth: 6 Aug 1846 in Amboy,Oneida,NY,USA. Death: 23 Sep 1864

  7. Rodella Chloe Allen: Birth: 26 Aug 1848 in Amboy,Oneida,NY,USA. Death: 21 Dec 1862

  8. Japhet Chapin Allen: Birth: 26 Sep 1850 in Yermillion,La Salle,IL,USA. Death: 8 Jun 1908

  9. Edwin T. Allen: Birth: 30 May 1853 in Yermillion,La Salle,IL,USA. Death: 7 Oct 1931

  10. Martha Little Allen: Birth: 1 Sep 1855 in Yermillion,La Salle,IL,USA. Death: 16 Apr 1934


Notes
a. Note:   They Came from New York to Iowa in covered wagon because Iowa had free education. In New York they had to pay tuition. Chloe wanted to
 educate
 their 10 children. They started with an ox team and came by way of
 the
 Great Lakes. They boarded the covered wagon on a tow-boat and the
 oxen
 followed a towpath and pulled the boat. The boys would get off the
 boat
 and run along the tow path and Chloe was afraid they would be lost.
 Her
 daughter Rachel used to catch rides in an ox bow under the rear end
 of the
 wagon. They took an 80 acre homestead two miles east of Keir Post
 office,
 Buchanan Co., Iowa. Japhet built a large house. Their oldest son
 Arty was
 kicked to death by a horse while working in the field for Chloe's
 brother.
 Another son, Marcena died while serving in the Union army. Chloe
 ALLEN
 said she had taken care of over one hundred baby cases in the region
 where
 they lived. She found a book in the road which was very useful in
 caring
 for these cases. Marsena ALLEN enrolled in Buchanan County. Went
 into
 quarters at Dubuke July 30, 1861. Mustered into service of the U.S.
 on
 25 Sept 1861. Captain C. Washington. "Marsena ALLEN of Littleton
 died a
 few weeks after the battle of Pea Ridge no less a victim of the war
 than
 if he had fallen in the thickest of the fight." Chapin Genealogy by
 Orange
 Chapin.
  !BIR-MAR-DEATH: Family Records of Rosa Dell Stanford Miller in
 possession of
 Doris D. Riggs Baker of Twin Falls, ID
  !BIR-MAR-DEATH-ORD: FGR in LDS Archives; FHL Film # 1,273,521 ;
 Ancestors of
 Stanford Familiy by Edmund Dana Barbour
  !MARRIAGE: FGR Film # 1,275,279



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