Brief Life History of John Rial
When John Rial Allen Sr was born on 29 January 1841, in Murray, Calloway, Kentucky, United States, his father, James Evins Allen, was 33 and his mother, Nancy McDaniels Allen, was 32. He married Sarah Ann Elizabeth Brandom on 15 March 1860, in Carroll, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States in 1862 and lived in Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States in 1900 and Teton, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1910. He died on 13 April 1920, in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Madison, Idaho, United States.
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- John R Allen, "United States Census, 1910"
- John R. Allen, "Find a Grave Index"
- John R in entry for Salley Janette Allen, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860
Historical Boundaries: 1860: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Millard, 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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