Louisa V. Allen

Brief Life History of Louisa V.

When Louisa V. Allen was born on 25 April 1829, in Woodruff, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, her father, Caleb Allen, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth Woodruff, was 32. She married Dr. Thomas Spencer Wright on 28 July 1857, in Woodruff, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States in 1860. She died on 4 January 1865, in Woodruff, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Woodruff, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Dr. Thomas Spencer Wright
1834–1885
Louisa V. Allen
1829–1865
Marriage: 28 July 1857
Sallie Amanda Eulala Wright
1859–1941
Lola A. Wright
1860–
William Wright
1864–

Sources (2)

  • Louise V Allen Wright, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Louisa Allen in entry for Eulala Wright Baho, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965"

World Events (5)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1835 · Angry Mob Seizes U-S Mail

On August 31, 1835, in Charleston, South Carolina an angry mob takes control over the U-S mail and burns it in public.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Alain, Alein (Old Breton Alan), from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland, where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne, Ailín, from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.

English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline, Aaline), a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal-, especially Adalheidis (see Allis ).

French: variant of Allain , a cognate of 1 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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