Lydia Willard Allen (1848 - 1864)

Born 20 May 1848 in Mount Morris, Ogle, Illinois, United States

Ancestors

Died 20 Apr 1864 at age 15 in Mount Morris, Ogle, Illinois, United States

Biography

Lydia was born in 1848. She died in 1864 at the age of 15.

Parents: Aaron Quinby Allen 1814 - 1883 and Elizabeth (Swingley) Allen 1822 - 1900.

Sources

• Lydia is buried at the Oakwood Cemetery in Mount Morris, Ogle County, Illinois, USA. Her page lists and has links to her parents, siblings. There is a picture of her headstone. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16625869/lydia-willard-allen

• Lydia: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MWR8-9Z8 Lists her parents, 6 siblings, 4 sources/notes.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M85X-9M3 : 19 December 2020), Lydia J Allen in household of Aaron J Allen, Mount Morris, Ogle, Illinois, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXHV-Z42 : 18 February 2021), Lydia Allen in entry for A W Allen, 1860.

• The History of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing A History of the County---Its Cities, Towns, Etc., A Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN, History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, Map of Ogle County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., ILLUSTRATED, Chicago, H. F. Kett & Co., Times Building, 1878, p. 768.