When Thomas Jefferson Allen was born on 11 April 1848, in Worth, Missouri, United States, his father, Aaron Mott Allen, was 45 and his mother, Desdemonia Farrington, was 38. He married Mahala Ruena Jones on 16 September 1868, in Worth, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Allen Township, Worth, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Howard Township, Gentry, Missouri, United States for about 40 years. He died on 19 November 1924, in Siloam Springs, Gentry, Missouri, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Koger Cemetery, Allen Township, Worth, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1861: Worth, Missouri, United States
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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.
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