Allen, Patrick 1842-1935 and Margaret Carroll Family

ALLEN, CARROLL, COYNE, QUINLAN

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 12/3/2022 at 07:30:18

Allen, Patrick 1842-1935 and Margaret Carroll Family

This biography was compiled by Wilma J. Vande Berg of the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society and taken from various identified sources. Purpose was to find as much about the Patrick Allen family as was available in local sources. When family information is taken from various sources it is often found that the information varies from one source to another. Often birth places and dates are listed differently by various family reports. The information in this biography was stated as found in the source addressed.

The life and times of Sioux County pioneers can be read about in several Sioux County books. “The Story of Sioux County” by Charles Dyk gives a very colorful account of pioneer life with its joys and hardships. The book “Siouxland A History of Sioux County” by Nelson Nieuwenhuis gives great historical accounts of the area. The “1908 Sioux County Atlas” has historical accounts of the various townships of Sioux County.. Also, the ‘Sioux County Iowa digital archives’ newspapers can be googled as such, and can be searched for your ancestors names that could lead to more items of interest in their daily life.

The information for Patrick Allen was gathered in the various sources that were found in local archives. There was a brief family story in the St. Mary’s Church Book on page 125, but found that the author of the article didn’t have much accurate information in that article.

RESEARCH Sources as listed.

1880 Census of East Orange Sioux county Iowa, Patrick Allen age 29 born about 1851? Canada, parents born Ireland, a farmer. Children listed were Michel 7, Mary C. 5, John 3, George 1.

1885 census of East Orange Sioux County Patrick Allen 37 born Canada, Margaret 36 born Canada, Michael 9, George 6, Agness 4, William 2 and Charlotte 1.

Find A Grave - lists Patrick Allen born 1842 died 1935 St. Mary’s Cemetery Alton Iowa, wife Margaret Allen, Three of the children listed were - Frank Dennis Allen, Agnes Rose Wagner, and Charlotte M. Gaffney.

Death record Lists Patrick Allen age 91 born abt 1844 died 21 Nov 1935 Alton IA. Parents were James Allen and Mary Griffin, spouse Margaret Carroll Allen. (Other records list parents as: Micheal Allen)

Marriage #2 In 1893 he married Miss Rose Coyne of Chicago. She died before 1896. Their marriage took place at Dunlap, IA. To this union one child was born, Joseph Allen,

Marriage #3 Patrick Allen age 42 a farmer from Alton IA. Parents Michael Allen and Miss Phelan, He married Mary Quinlan of Alton IA, 23 years born Ireland daughter of Michael Quinlan and Cathryn, married in Sioux City June 4, 1896.

1900 census of East Orange Sioux county confirms Patrick age 50 born Canada, came to USA 1874, married to Mary Quinlan in 1896 she was 26 years born Ireland. His children in the home were William 17, Charlotte 16, Francis 14, Matilda 12.

Soon after the 1900 census record it appeared in the paper that Pat Allen would no longer be responsible for anything Mary Allen may say or do. Signed Pat Allen… In Jan 1908 Mary Quinlan Allen filed for divorce against Patrick Allen after several reconciliations.

1910 census of East Orange Sioux County IA, Pat Allen born 1845 Canada, no wife listed, William Allen 28 son, Lottie 26 daughter and Attia Allen 22 daughter.

OBITUARY of Patrick Allen 1842-1935 The children are listed at the end of this narrative.
Alton Democrat November 22, 1935
PAT ALLEN GONE
Patrick Allen, aged Alton citizen, passed away at his home at Alton Wednesday night, November 20th
(Cemetery Index lists Patrick Allen 1842-1935)
Alton Democrat of Oct 29, 1935 page 1. and page 4. (Misprint in the paper should be Nov 29,1935. Patrick Allen in Terrible Chicago Fire: 1875 Patrick Allen, oldest Alton citizen and pioneer resident, died at his home here Nov 20, at the age of 93 years, after an illness of 7 months. To the last he retained is keen mental faculties, and during this last months was able to give to his family many of the memories of the absorbing events through which he passed during his long span of life.

Born at Chesterville, Ontario, Canada, on march 17, 1842, he left his home in 1865 at the age of 23, to work in the lumber camps of northern Michigan. Rising at two in the morning, workmen in those camps labored in the swamps often in water waist deep. Two fellow workmen in the northern woods, Michael Kinney and Paul Ludowisse, later became like Mr. Allen pioneer settlers of Sioux County.

In 1870 he went to Chicago where he was employed in a lumber and coal office. During the great fire of 1871 for three days and nights he did rescue work, removing hundreds of children from the fire devastated districts to safety. Planks were laid on coal carts, so that several children could be carried at on time. During that time he lent to homeless families all of the $500 which he had saved from his earnings. Although he never made any effort in later years to collect these loans, every cent was returned to him, though many of the people to whom he lent money were entire strangers to him.

In 1873 he was married to Miss Margaret Carroll of Chesterville, his home town in Ontario. They lived in Chicago until 1875, when on March 18 they set out on the overland trip to Iowa. At Storm Lake they were compelled to dig their way through twelve feet of snow. They homesteaded south east of Alton. Their older children remember some of the hardships of those early days, when prairie hay painstakingly twisted into bundles, was often the only available fuel during the long winters. The nearest Catholic church was in Le Mars, and it was their custom on Sunday to rise during the small hours in the morning to prepare for the trip to Le Mars by oxen, as they had no horses. After church and lunch in Le Mars the return trip required the entire afternoon and they would arrive home at sundown.

Nine children were born to the couple: Michael Allen of Faulkton SD; Mrs. Theodore Wagner and Will Allen of Alton; Mrs. Don Gaffeny and Mrs. E. B. Niemeyer of Faulton SD; Frank D. Allen of Alton, George Allen of Woonsocket, who died a year ago, and two children, John and Mary who died during early childhood in 1886 during an epidemic.
Mrs. Allen died in January, 1890.

In 1893 he married Miss Rose Coyne of Chicago. Their marriage took place at Dunlap, IA. To this union one child was born, Joseph Allen, who was reared by his mother’s people and now resides in Pittsburg, PA. This son arrived in Alton Saturday morning after traveling by airplane to Sioux City. He is now making the acquaintance of his half brothers and sisters whom he had never seen, although for twenty years his oldest sister, Mrs. Wagner, has kept in touch with him by correspondence. His mother died in 1896.
In the year 1913 Mr. Allen moved to Alton where he has since resided. Mr. and Mrs. Will Allen having made their home with him in recent years. His interest in his family in the public affairs of his adopted country, as well as those of his town town, have continued through the years. Although bedridden at the time of the town election for new city hall bonds, he was eager to cast his vote and was pleased to have had a share in carrying the project by his absent voter ballot.

Funeral services were held at St. Mary’s church Saturday at nine o’clock in charge of Very Rev. M. A. Schemel. There are eighteen grandchildren and 5 great grandsons, the youngest named for his grandfather, Patrick Allen.
Besides all the children and their families here for the funeral a long list followed with names of relatives and friend present from out of town.

OBITUARY of Margaret Mrs. Patrick Allen 1851-1890
From the Alton Democrat of Jan 11, 1890
(obit is rather lengthy, have summarized)
Death of Mrs. Allen. Nothing has cast such a gloom over the entire neighborhood, in a long time as the announcement made last Friday that Mrs. Patrick Allen had died. A day or so prior to her death, she was taken with cramps but the attack was not considered serious. On Friday death came suddenly and unannounced. It is supposed the immediate cause was the bursting of some blood vessel.
Mrs. Margaret Carroll Allen was born at Chesterville Ontario Canada in 1851 and was married at that place on Nov. 17, 1872 to Patrick Allen. Immediately after the marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Allen located in East Orange Township, this county, where they have lived for 16 years. A husband and seven children are left to mourn, the youngest child being two years and the oldest sixteen. Funeral was from St. Mary's church.
(from the So. Co. Cemetery Index Margaret Allen born 1849 died Jan 3, 1890 buried in St. Mary's cemetery in Alton. In Patrick's obituary of Oct 1935, the children are listed as: Michael Allen, Mrs. Theodore Wagner, Will, Mrs. Don Gaffney, Mrs. E. E. Niemeyer, Frank D. Allen, George Allen. Two children died in the 1880 epedemic, John and Mary. Also mentioned in Patrick's obit he had married Margaret Carroll in Canada)

CHILDREN of Patrick Allen. Most information listed was take from a family report on ancestry.com which was submitted to the public family trees by others. Some local obits of the children were references can be found on our web page www.iagenweb.org/sioux

1. MICHAEL ALLEN born 1 Sep 1873 Escanaba, MI and died Jun 1951 Hawthorne CA buried Faulkton. They had lived at Faulkton SD. His wife was Mary Wagner 1877-1951 Children listed Orlando Vernon Patrick Thomas Allen 1905-1984 and Gerald Robert allen 1916-1996

2. MARY C. ALLEN born 1875 Alton Iowa died 1886 died in a childhood epidemic. Most likely diphtheria which was prevalent in the 1880s.

3. JOHN C. ALLEN Allen born abt 1877 Alton Iowa died 1886 died in a childhood epidemic. Most likely diphtheria which was prevalent in the 1880s.

4. GEORGE FENTON ALLEN born 5 Apr 1879 Iowa died 28 Jan 1935 Woonsocket, Sanborn Co. SD His wife was Annabelle Elizabeth Frembgen 1885-1932 Their children listed were Coletta Allen 1906-1997, Ethel Allen 1908-2007, Lois Mae Allen 1910-1968, Estella Rose Allen 1914-2001, Donald Dean Allen 1923-2011.

5. AGNES R. ALLEN born 13 Nov 1880 Alton, IA died 6 Jul 1961 Alton, Sioux, Iowa She married Theodore Wagner 1876-1953. Their children were – Mary Margaret Wagner 1904-1987, Loretta Wagner 1905-1997, Lillian Wagner 1909-1997, Theodore Wagner 1913-1914, James Wagner 1916-1973, Phyllis Wagner 1910-2010, and one other.

6. WILLIAM JAMES ALLEN born 22 Nov 1882 Alton Iowa died 19 Dec 1971 Los Angeles CA He married Marie Audrey Shade 1895-1990. They had children listed – Robert W. Allen 1918-1976 and James Douglas Allen 1921

7. CHARLOTTE M. ALLEN born 17 Jun 1884 Alton Iowa died 11 Mar 1875 Orient, Faulk, SD She married John Michael Gaffney 1887-1945. Their children were – Margaret Gaffney 1921-2007, Agnes Gaffney 1923-2004 and John Gaffney 1924-2007. (Husband also referred to as Don Gaffney)

8. FRANCIS ‘FRANK’ DENNIS ALLEN born 15 Apr 1886 Alton Sioux County IA died 29 Oct 1964 Iowa. His wife was Louise Marcella Lieb 1889-1961. No children listed.

9. ATHELIA ‘ATTIE’ ELIZABETH ALLEN born 2 Mar 1888 Alton Iowa died 8 Nov1940 Aberdeen, Brown, SD She married Edgar ‘Ed’ Benjamin Niemeyer 1892-1948. Their children were – Allen Niemeyer 1921-1973, and Norma Niemeyer 1926-2004.

Child of Patrick Allen and Wife #2 Rose Coyne 1854-1897 (1896)

10. JOSEPH ALLOYSIUS ALLEN born 14 Oct 1894 Dunlap Iowa or Dundas Ontario Canada and died 4 May1964 Brighton Township Beaver, Pennaylvania. His wife was Mabel Verne Bruce 1897-1956. Indication of one child.

This picture of Patrick Allen was found in an ancestry.com report submitted in a public family tree.

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