Allen Creed Greening

Brief Life History of Allen Creed

When Allen Creed Greening was born on 20 October 1868, in Monticello Township, Johnson, Kansas, United States, his father, William Henry Greening, was 21 and his mother, Martha E. Ford, was 19. He married Matilda Ann Tweddell on 16 June 1895, in Holliday, Shawnee, Johnson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Johnson, Kansas, United States for about 40 years and West Point Township, Bates, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 23 August 1951, at the age of 82, and was buried in Monticello Union Cemetery, Shawnee, Johnson, Kansas, United States.

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Allen Creed Greening
1868–1951
Matilda Ann Tweddell
1872–1954
Marriage: 16 June 1895
Ethel Marie Greening
1897–1912

Sources (11)

  • Allen Graening in household of William Graening, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Allen Greening, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
  • Allen Creed Greening, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

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 · Nicodemus is Founded

The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.

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 (Gloucestershire and Dorset): nickname perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English grening, a derivative of grene ‘green’ (Old English grēne), i.e. ‘the green one’, whether physically or metaphorically ‘green’.

English: alternatively, from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Grening, a derivative (originally patronymic) of the Middle English personal name Grene. See Green .

Americanized form of German Grüning, a variant of Groening .

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

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