Estelle Allen
1903–1983 (Age 80)
Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States
The Life of Estelle
When Estelle Allen was born about 1903, in Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States, her father, John Oliver Allen, was 41 and her mother, Amelia Hand, was 33. She died about 1983, at the age of 80.
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Family Time Line
John Oliver Allen
1862–1943
Amelia Hand
1870–1957
Mariana I. Allen
1899–1979
Alda Allen
1901–1981
Estelle Allen
1903–1983
Cecil Allen
1905–1985
Glenwood Allen
1909–1989
Ernest Byrd Allen
1906–1969
Parents & Siblings
1862–1943Male
1870–1957Female
siblings
(6)
1899–1979Female
1901–1981Female
1903–1983Female
1905–1985Female
1906–1969Male
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World Events (8)
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
Age 0
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop
Age 4
When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.
1925 · B.B. King is Born
Age 22
B.B. King was born on September 16, 1925, in Itta Bean, Mississippi. He was a famous American blues singer, electric guitarist, and record producer. In 1987, he inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: 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. Various suggestions have been put forward regarding its origin; the most plausible is that it originally meant ‘little rock’. Compare Gaelic ailín, diminutive of 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. St. Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another St. Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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