Brief Life History of Dona Martha
When Dona Martha Butcher was born on 6 July 1849, in Harrodsburg, Clear Creek Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, her father, Elah R. Butcher, was 30 and her mother, Elvira Jane Givens, was 22. She married John Clarence Allen on 24 December 1873, in Stanford, Van Buren Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Van Buren Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States in 1900. She died on 10 October 1928, in Bloomington, Perry Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Bloomington Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States.
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- Dona Allen in household of Clarence Allen, "United States Census, 1880"
- Dona Martha Butcher Allen, "Find A Grave Index"
- Dona M Bistiker in entry for Leon Wade Duismore, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a butcher or slaughterer, from Middle English, Anglo-Norman French bocher, bouch(i)er, bowcher (Old French bochier, bouchier, a derivative of bouc ‘ram’).
Americanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Bučar (see Bucar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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MRS. CLARENCE ALLEN DEATH AT AGE 79
Taken from FIND A GRAVE MEMORIAL ID 52908688 Bloomington Daily Telephone, Thursday, October 11, 1928, page 10: Mrs. Clarence Allen a devout Christian woman and mother, died yesterday evening at th …
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