Allen, Jacob

ALLEN, HULL, IMES, FRINK, FINK

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 7/6/2019 at 08:59:00

JACOB ALLEN born 1827

JACOB ALLEN, one of the pioneers of Decatur County, now living on section 7, of New Buda Township, was born in Knox County, Ohio, October 3rd, 1827, a son of CHRISTEON, and SARAH (HULL) ALLEN, the father a native of New Jersey, and the mother born in Greene County, Pennsylvania. They were married in Ohio, and of their nine children our subject was the fifth and eldest son. The father died in Stark County, Illinois, in 1854, aged sixty years, and the mother’s death occurred at the residence of our subject, in January, 1855 at the advanced age of eighty-six years. JACOB ALLEN was reared on the home farm till sixteen years of age, when he followed steam-boating on the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers during the summer seasons, spending his winters at the old homestead. At the age of twenty-two years he settled in Stark County, Illinois, where he followed farming till 1856. He was married in Stark County, in 1854, to Miss RHODA IMES, who was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in August, 1835. They have had nine children born to them – LAVANCHE, married CHARLES FRINK, and died in Bloomington Township, aged twenty-four years; WILLIAM, living in Fayette Township; THOMAS, of Burrell Township; GEORGE, at home: NEVADA, wife of LYMAN FINK, of Lamoni; JOHN, at home, and three who died in infancy. In November, 1864, Mr. ALLEN enlisted in Company K, Forty-second Illinois Infantry, and participated in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, where he received a gun-shot wound in the right leg, from which he recovered very slowly, being unable to walk for a year. He was honorably discharged from the service, and now receives a pension of $8 per month. In April, 1866, he bought forty acres of land in Fayette Township, on which he made his home for eight years, when he returned to Illinois, remaining in that State two years, since which he has resided in New Buda Township, Decatur County, where he has 160 acres of as good land as can be found in the township, under fine cultivation, with good residence and farm buildings. In his political views Mr. ALLEN is a Republican.