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Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Arminta Allen: Birth: 20 Dec 1865 in Oxford, Franklin, ID. Death: 8 Nov 1900 in Oakley, Cassia, ID

  2. Lydia Clarinda Allen: Birth: 12 Dec 1867 in Oxford, Oneida, ID. Death: 30 Mar 1947 in Afton, Lincoln, WY

  3. Sidney James Allen: Birth: 28 Feb 1871 in Richmond, Cache, Utah. Death: 3 Mar 1871

  4. Vinson Agrippa Allen: Birth: 22 Dec 1876 in Oxford, Oneida, ID. Death: 23 Mar 1959 in Nampa, Canyon, ID

  5. Julia May Allen: Birth: 16 Jun 1879 in Oxford, Oneida, ID. Death: 23 Jul 1899

  6. Eliza Roxie (Ida) Allen: Birth: 14 Oct 1881 in Richmond, Cache, Utah.

  7. Olive Pearl Allen: Birth: 4 Jul 1886 in Oxford, Oneida, ID. Death: 25 Nov 1894


Notes
a. Note:   SIDNEY DAVID ALLEN and MARGARET ANN COOPER SIDNEY DAVID ALLEN came across the plains when he was a small boy. Later he went back to help another company on their way. He went to California during the gold rush and worked as a blacksmith. He learned the blacksmith trade from his father. - - - He married MARGARET ANN COOPER. Her father planted the first fruit trees in Ogden. They lived upon the Weber River where they were sent as missionaries to the Indians. One day Margaret Ann was going somewhere on horseback when she was chased by the Indians. When they finally caught her they pulled her off her horse and the leader took a look at her and said, �Hell, Cooper's Papoose�. They turned her loose. He was very well thought of by the Indians.
 Sidney David and Margaret Ann went to Oxford, Idaho, where he ran his blacksmith shop for the freighters between Utah and Montana. He followed the railroad into Montana, with his shop.
 From Montana he went to Cove, Utah, then to Goose Creek for one year, He was sent by Brigham Young to Star Valley. Wyoming, where he remained until hi s death at the age of seventy. He farmed, raised cattle, and ran his blacksmith shop until one year before his death. He was a good provider and if it had not been for him and his family, many of the people in Star Valley would have suffered from hunger the first winter. They rationed their food out until it was gone. In the spring the saints from Montpelier came to their aid. They ate pots of boiled venison that winter. People paid him for his work in produce or anything they had, then in the winter it would be given back to them to feed their families.
 He was Counselor to the Bishop there for many years. Margaret Ann was
 a nurse and there was never a call turned down. She went as far as ten miles on snowshoes to deliver a baby or tend the sick. In the fall she would take a w ago n and drive to Cache Valley for fruit. On one trip when she was going horn e with her wagon loaded she met some freighters with empty wagons on a grade. She pulled to the inside of the road, which by rights should have been theirs. They told her to pull over and she refused. They said �All right then, we w ill stay here until you do.� She climbed down and unhitched her team and said, �Right here is where we camp. I can stay as long as you can. �The freighters conceded their defeat and they both went on their way.
 She pieced nine quilt tops by hand the winter-she was eighty-four years old.
 Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1BXW-7J


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