Denver Allen

Brief Life History of Denver

When Denver Allen was born in 1924, in Missouri, United States, his father, William Jack Allen, was 57 and his mother, Daisy Nance, was 37. He married Dixie Louise Dunnahay on 13 November 1948, in Benton, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in El Dorado Springs, Cedar, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 December 1992, at the age of 68, and was buried in El Dorado Springs, Cedar, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Denver Allen
1924–1992
Dixie Louise Dunnahay
1929–2011
Marriage: 13 November 1948
Glenda Louise Allen
1949–
Silvia Elaine Allen
1951–2004
Kenneth Wayne Allen
1953–2013

Sources (8)

  • Denver Allen in household of Wm Jack Allen, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Denver Ray Allen, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
  • Denver R Allen, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

1942 · The Japanese American internment

Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.

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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