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About Titus William Allen
Titus W Allen was born Feb. 27, 1842 in New Brunswick, Canada to English and Irish parents - Benjamin W Allen and Sarah Jane Dobsen.
The family immigrated to the United States when Titus was six, landing in Roscoe, Winnebago county, Illinois. The 1850 census shows Titus living with his father, Benjamin, mother Jane, and brothers George 1847 and Moses 1848. The 1860 census shows additional siblings Ann born about 1850, Betsey 1853, Patience 1856, Benjamin 1858, and Charity born June of 1860. The 1870 census adds Dora 1864, Sarah 1866, and Jannie 1869.
At 16, Titus went into business for himself, but left it behind when the Civil War began, enlisting in 1861. He served through the fall of 1864, seeing action at Mission Ridge, Vicksburg and Chickamauga, and was wounded in June of 1864. He was furloughed that fall.
On November 17, 1864 Titus married Elizabeth Oliver. They had eight children. The Allens lived in Illinois from 1864 to 1870, lived in Iowa from 1870 to 1879, then homesteaded near Arlington in 1879. He was a county commissioner, a Mason, and was active in the Grand Army of the Republic — the veterans' organization for Northern Army soldiers. He was pensioned at $3 per month, beginning in October of 1872, for a gunshot wound to his left leg. Titus W. Allen died January 18, 1913 at his home in Arlington at the age of 70.
GEDCOM Note
8/23/1999 From: jackyle@earthlink.net (Kyle E Allen and Jacqueline R Larson)
I ran across your extensive GEDCOM file on ancestry.com and I have some questions to ask you. What is your name and where do you fall in the GEDCOM. I am a descendant of Titus W. Allen and I assume you must be a descendant of the Oliver branch, Titus's wife's family. I would be interested in knowing some more about them. If this is in fact the same family, I think you have some errors about their children. I am fairly certain that my information is correct from Titus down to me. I'm Titus's GG Grandson. I have a typed page about Titus's life and I need to verify with my grandfather the existence of all of Titus's children (my grandfather's aunts and uncles). Anyway, any information you might have that would prove to link these together would be appreciated. I have accumulated tenuous linking information back to my 11G Grandfather on the Allen side. Kyle & Jackie Allen
e-mail: alokasi@alum.NDSU.nodak.edu jackyle@earthlink.net kallen@u.washington.edu http://home.earthlink.net/~jackyle/home2.html
11845 Majestic Lane NW #203 Silverdale, WA 98383
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Titus William Allen's Timeline
| 1842 |
March 27, 1842
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Westmorland County, NB, Canada
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| 1868 |
September 9, 1868
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Winnebago County, IL, United States
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| 1870 |
September 9, 1870
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Jenkins, Mitchell County, IA, United States
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| 1882 |
May 5, 1882
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Rockford, Winnebago County, IL, United States
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| 1884 |
January 8, 1884
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Brookings, Brookings County, SD, United States
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| 1886 |
July 1886
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South Dakota, United States
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| 1895 |
October 1895
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SD
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| 1930 |
January 18, 1930
Age 87
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Arlington, Kingsbury County, SD, United States
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