Brief Life History of Nancy McDaniels
When Nancy McDaniels Allen was born on 5 January 1809, in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, her father, John Easter Allen, was 25 and her mother, Rachel McDaniel, was 19. She married James Evins Allen on 20 January 1831, in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Platte Township, Andrew, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 26 March 1878, in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Draper City Cemetery, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Nancy Allen, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Nancy McDaniel Allen - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mrs Rebecca Allen
- Nancy Allin, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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
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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