Brief Life History of Helen Rebecca
When Helen Rebecca Allen was born on 23 June 1828, in Dryden, Dryden, Tompkins, New York, United States, her father, Elihu Marcellus Allen, was 37 and her mother, Lola Ann Clawson, was 22. She married Johann Jacob Riser on 25 December 1848, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in California, United States in 1870 and Washington Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States in 1900. She died on 20 March 1903, in Fremont, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Centerville Pioneer Cemetery, Fremont, Alameda, California, United States.
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- Helen Riser in household of John J Riser, "United States Census, 1860"
- Hellen Allen Allen, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
- Allen in entry for Frank Allen Riser, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1847
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: John T. Blacow BIRTH 18 Nov 1846 Alameda County, California, USA DEATH 15 Aug 1847 (aged 8 months) Alameda County, California, USA BURIAL Centerville Pioneer Cemetery Fremont, Alameda County, California, USA MEMORIAL ID 41350311 · View Source
1858
Centerville Pioneer Cemetery was officially designated a state cemetery in 1858 or 1859
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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