Eliza Allen

Brief Life History of Eliza

When Eliza Allen was born in 1813, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Benjamin Allen, was 38 and her mother, Margaret Youel, was 34. She married James Shanklin on 2 April 1839, in Montgomery, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Toledo Township, Tama, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Toledo, Tama, Iowa, United States in 1870. She died on 2 March 1894, at the age of 81.

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Family Time Line

James Shanklin
1807–1873
Eliza Allen
1813–1894
Marriage: 2 April 1839
Sarah Margaret Shanklin
1840–1916
Joseph Allen Shanklin
1842–1864
Mary Jane Shanklin
1844–1861
Harriet Atwood Shanklin
1846–1892
Ellen Elvina Shanklin
1847–1913
William Harvey Shanklin
1849–1869

Sources (9)

  • E Shanklin in household of J Shanklin, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Eliza Allen, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
  • Elize Allen in entry for Harriet A. Lalond, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937"

World Events (8)

1818 · Jackson Purchase

The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1846

Iowa is the 29th state.

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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