Mary Emeline Allen

Brief Life History of Mary Emeline

When Mary Emeline Allen was born on 11 March 1894, in Riverdale, Weber, Utah, United States, her father, William Elmer Allen, was 28 and her mother, Polly Ann Child, was 26. She married Joseph Henry Stimpson on 21 October 1914, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Burch Creek, Weber, Utah, United States for about 20 years and Burch Creek Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 4 May 1971, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Henry Stimpson
1885–1964
Mary Emeline Allen
1894–1971
Marriage: 21 October 1914
Joseph Allen Stimpson
1915–1984
William Eldon Stimpson
1917–1929
Inez Ei Stimpson
1919–2009
Mary Ai Stimpson
1921–2019
Edward Stimpson
1923–1923
Stimpson
1925–1925
Ellen Stimpson
1929–1930
Maurine Stimpson
1934–2021

Sources (68)

  • Mary E Stimpson, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Mary E Allen, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1939"
  • Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961

World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1896 · Utah becomes a state

After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

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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