John
W
Allen
Born in Little Coon Valley, Jackson County, Alabama, United States
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Eliza Ann (Bean) Allen
— married
18 Dec 1881 in Jackson County, Alabama
Descendants 
Father of
Milton Andrew Allen, Charles Cleveland Allen, Nola Mae (Allen) Stewart, James Robert Allen, Bessie (Allen) Rhinehart, Ethel (Allen) Summers, Mary Ella (Allen) Clifton, John Allen, Annie Eliza (Allen) Smith, Lawrence E Allen, Ulysses Raymond Allen, Claude Leslie Allen and Chester R Allen
Died
at age 93
in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Oct 2014
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Biography
John W Allen, son of Robert L. Allen and Rebecca (Finley) Allen of Little Coon Valley, Alabama.
About 1879, John went to work as a farm hand on his Aunt Elizabeth Lovelady's farm. She was a neighbor of James Madison Bean, Jr.
John married James' daughter, Eliza Ann Bean in 1881, at the home of John Matthews and Sarah (Bean) Matthews (Eliza Ann's Aunt and Uncle, who had no children of their own) Justice of the Peace, W. J. Thurman, performed the ceremony.
John and Eliza moved to the Bass Community, in Crow Creek Valley, north of Stevenson, Alabama, where he farmed 100 acres of land.
Eliza and John had thirteen children, all born in Jackson County, Alabama. She died in 1919.
After Eliza's death, (around 1922) John moved with his daughter, Nola (Allen) Stewart to Chattanooga, Tennessee. He lived there until his death in 1948.
Both John and Eliza and several of their children are buried at Talley Cemetery in Dry Cove, Jackson County, Alabma.
Sources
- The Bean Sentinel, Newsletter for the descendants of William Bean, James Madison Bean, Sr., James Madison Bean, Jr
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