Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Allen Shocky was born on 1 March 1869, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, her father, Benjamin Allen, was 45 and her mother, Sarah Jane Dobson, was 41. She married Samuel Taylor Shockey on 23 May 1883, in Wheaton, Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Lone Tree Township, Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States for about 15 years and Center Township, Marshall, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 9 September 1940, in Onaga, Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Onaga Cemetery, Onaga, Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States.
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- Jennie Shockey, "Kansas State Census, 1895"
- Janey Allen, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- Jannie Allen Shockey, "Find A Grave Index"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877
Historical Boundaries: 1877: Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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