Dovie A. Allen (1894 - 1961)

Born 14 Nov 1894 in De Roche, Hot Spring, Arkansas, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Calvin Lester Allen I. — married 26 Oct 1913 in Hot Springs, Garland, Arkansas, United States

Descendants

Died 13 Nov 1961 at age 66 in De Roche, Hot Spring, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

Name

Dovie's maiden was Allen.^[1]

Birth

Dovie was born on November 14, 1894 in Clark County, Arkansas. Find A Grave: Memorial #5137226

Death

Dovie died on November 13, 1961 in Garland County, Arkansas. Find A Grave: Memorial #5137226

1961 Malvern Daily Record

Mrs. Dovie Allen, 66, wife of Lester Allen died Monday evening in St. Joseph Infirmary in Hot Springs. She was born in this county and lived her entire life in the old De Roche Community at Bismarck.

Survivors include her husband; five daughters. Mrs. Odie Burrough, Mrs. Clinton Hughes, Mrs Denver Lee Shuffield, Mrs. Horace Boswell and Mrs. Orville Bright, all of Bismarck; two sons, Arvillie Allen of Bismarck and Calvin L. Allen of New Martinsville West Virginia; six brothers , W.W. Allen of Bismarck. James E. Allen of Plainview, Texas, William Clark Allen of Stanford, TX, W.L. Allen of Malvern, C.E. Allen of Paducah, KY; seven sisters, Mrs. B.T. Ballard of Bismarck, Mrs. Jessie Brown and Mrs Vernice Sheets of Arkadelphia, Mrs. Nattie Sheets of Kilgore, TX., Mrs. Ethel Hampton of Sikeston, MO, Mrs Watson Yancy and Mrs Alvin Mayhan of Little Rock; 28 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at two o'clock Thursday at the DeRoche Baptist Church by Rev Earl McAllister assisted by Steve Thomas and Rev Freeman Crow., pastor of the church. Burial will be in DeRoche Cemetery by Murry Funeral Home of Arkadelphia.

Timeline

Marriages

Calvin Lester, Sr. and Dovie were married on October 26, 1913 in Clark County, Arkansas He was 20 and Dovie was 19.^[2]

Census

1900 Census, Charles was 31 living with his spouse, Dora age 28, in Caddo Township (west part excl. Arkadelphia), Clark, Arkansas, United States. There were six children in the home. They were living next door to his father, Joseph. The children were as follows:

Joseph age 11;

Walter L. age 9;

Dove age 6;

James age 4;

Nettie M. age 2; and

Birdie L. age 1.^[3]

1920 Census. Age: 25 Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Wife. 1920 De Roche, Hot Spring, Arkansas, USA. ^[4]

1930 Census. Dovie was living at home with her husband, Lester, and six of their children in Montgomery, Hot Spring, Arkansas. He was 36 and Dovie was 35 when this Census was taken. This Census shows they were all born in Arkansas.^[5]

1950 Census. C. Lester Allen was 56 years old and living with Dovie who was 55 in Montgomery Township, Hot Spring, Arkansas. Calvin's occupation was a farmer. Charlotte M. Allen, their daughter, was 17 and still living at home.^[6]

Facts

• Fact: Residence (1900) Caddo Township (west part excl. Arkadelphia), Clark, Arkansas, United States
• Fact: Residence (1920) De Roche, Hot Spring, Arkansas, United States
• Fact: Residence (1930) Montgomery, Hot Spring, Arkansas, United States
• Fact: Burial Old DeRoche Cem,, Hot Spring, Arkansas

Sources

1. ↑ Malvern Daily Record
2. ↑ "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N946-NQH : 12 November 2017), Lester Allen and Dovie Allen, 26 Oct 1913; citing , Clark, Arkansas, United States, county offices, Arkansas; FHL microfilm 2,168,917.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-674S-SX3?cc=1325221&wc=9BW9-L2S%3A1030551501%2C1030694601%2C1032740201 : 5 August 2014), Arkansas > Clark > ED 7 Caddo Township (west part excl. Arkadelphia) > image 26 of 54; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ 1920; Census Place: De Roche, Hot Spring, Arkansas; Roll: T625_63; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 104; Image: 307 Certainty: 3
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XML4-L5H : accessed 19 December 2016), Orville Allen in household of Lester Allen, Montgomery, Hot Spring, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 21, sheet 5B, line 66, family 95, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 77; FHL microfilm 2,339,812.
6. ↑ United States 1950 Census.