Nephi Simeon Hardy Allen

Male25 August 1918–12 March 2015

Brief Life History of Nephi Simeon Hardy

When Nephi Simeon Hardy Allen was born on 25 August 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Heber Simeon Allen, was 53 and his mother, Elizabeth Skidmore Hardy, was 33. He married Marjorie Nell Price on 30 April 1941, in Maricopa, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake City Ward 6, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 12 March 2015, in Peoria, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Nephi Simeon Hardy Allen
1918–2015
Marjorie Nell Price
1920–2018
Marriage: 30 April 1941
James Russell Allen
1943–2018
Steven Wallace Allen
1946–2020

Sources (23)

  • Nephi S. Allen, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
  • Nephi Simeon Allen, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
  • Nephi Simeon Allen, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    30 April 1941Maricopa, Arizona, United States
  • Children (2)

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    Siblings (6)

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    World Events (8)

    1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

    Age 1

    The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

    1923 · President Harding visits Utah to get to know the people.

    Age 5

    President Warren G. Harding's visited Utah as part of a broader tour of the western United States designed to bring him closer to the people and their conditions. After Speaking at Liberty Park, the president went to the Hotel Utah where he met with President Heber J. Grant and talked to him about the history of the church.

    1944 · The G.I Bill

    Age 26

    The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

    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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    He grew up in Sugar House in Salt Lake City. He was called go to the Switzerland Austrian mission before World War II began. Under the threat of war, the missionaries left Europe through Italy and fin …

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