Brief Life History of Dorothy Melissa
When Dorothy Melissa Allen was born on 12 May 1845, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, James Dickerson Allen, was 41 and her mother, Sarah Ann Hardy, was 40. She married James Humphries on 12 May 1861, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Washington, Utah, United States in 1900 and Virgin, Washington, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 25 July 1921, in Hurricane, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Hurricane City Cemetery, Hurricane, Washington, Utah, United States.
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- Dolly M Humphrey in household of James Humphrey, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Dorothy Melissa D Allen - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Eva Johanna Leibert
- Dolly Melissia Allen Humphries, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1857
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1864: Kane, Utah Territory, United States 1883: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Washington, Utah, United States
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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