Brief Life History of Francis Marion
When Francis Marion Allen was born on 1 April 1834, in Wadesboro, Calloway, Kentucky, United States, his father, James Evins Allen, was 26 and his mother, Nancy McDaniels Allen, was 25. He married Mary Kimball Burnham on 27 December 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Platte Township, Andrew, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 12 November 1907, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Draper City Cemetery, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Marian Allen, "United States Census, 1880"
- Francis Marion Allen, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Francis M Allen, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1842
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER Ann Weaver Brown BIRTH 5 Aug 1806 Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York, USA DEATH 24 Jun 1842 (aged 35) Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, USA BURIAL Draper City Cemetery Draper, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Show Map PLOT A-23-6 MEMORIAL ID 9037266 · View Source
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
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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