Brief Life History of Tabitha Jane
When Tabitha Jane Allen was born on 7 October 1838, in Caldwell, Missouri, United States, her father, Lewis Allen, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Alexander, was 19. She married John Woodruff Freeman on 18 April 1868, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Washington, Utah, United States in 1870 and Taylor, Apache, Arizona, United States in 1880. She died on 25 October 1908, in Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, United States.
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- Tabitha Freeman in household of John Freeman, "United States Census, 1870"
- Jane Allin, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Tabitha Jane Allen Freeman, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1852
Historical Boundaries: 1852: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Washington, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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