Brief Life History of James Evins
When James Evins Allen was born on 14 August 1807, in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, his father, Rial Easter Allen, was 15 and his mother, Peggy Evans, was 23. He married Nancy McDaniels Allen on 20 January 1831, in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1862 and lived in Platte Township, Andrew, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 16 September 1886, in Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Lewiston City Cemetery, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- James Allen, "United States Census, 1880"
- James Allin, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- James Allen, "BillionGraves Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Kentucky Bend Created
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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James Allen was born at Somerset, Kentucky, the 14th of Aug., 1807. The eldest son of Rial and Margaret (Evins) Allen. He grew up in a very beautiful valley 9 miles out of Somerset. He fell in love …
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