I spent some time this week getting my family history data put online with the TNG software it resides at http://genealogy.koen.net now. I will continue to post what research activities I completed this week as well as plans for upcoming research. I am including links to the data on the individuals discuss below. All source information on this family is included in the database.

After the success of last week, I continued further up the family tree and looked at the Edward Lee Allen family. Edward Lee Allen (1863-1949) and Magnolia Elrod (1867-1952) are the parents of Orpha Allen who I researched last week.

What I know

Edward Lee Allen was born 3 October 1863 in Mineola, Montgomery, Missouri, USA. He married Magnolia Elrod. He died on 12 Mar 1949 in New Florence, Montgomery, Missouri, USA and was buried in the New Florence Cemetery, New Florence, Missouri, USA.

At this point, I have found him in the 1900 U.S. Census in Bear Creek Township, Montgomery, Missouri. He is located in the Danville Township in each of the 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. Census.The census schedule indicate he was farmer and owned the land he farmed.

According to his death certificate, he died at his home from coronary thrombosis due to a cerebreal haemmorhage, due to arterio-sclerosis. His parents were Joseph C. Allen and Mollie Windsor. His son George is listed as the informant.

Magnolia Elrod was born 16 July 1867 in New Florence, Montgomery, Missouri, USA and died 25 September 1952 at the Knights Nursing Home in Wellsville, Montgomery, Missouri. She was buried 28 September 1952 in the New Florence Cemetery as well.

She was located in the census schedules with her husband Edward in 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930. Her death certificate says that she died from bronchial pneumonia and a cerebral haemmorhage and the son George was also the informant. Her parents were listed as James Elrod and Amanda Wright.

Edward and Magnolia had four children:

1. Orpha Allen, b. 3 Aug 1890, m. Henry Harrison Ekey 7 May 1910, d. 28 Apr 1964
2. George D. Allen, b. abt 1892
3. Joseph Burnace Allen, b. 14 Dec 1893, m. Georgie A. Davis Dec 1914, d. 25 Jan 1956
4. Frank Allen, b. 18 Jul 1896, d. 15 Dec 1898

I  have  obituaries for Edward and Magnolia as well from the Montgomery County Standard and will post them later.

Research to do

• Locate Edward Lee Allen and Magnolia Elrod in the other Census schedules.
• Trace the children of the family forward through all offspring.
• Research the land records of Edward Lee Allen.
• Get tombstone pictures from the New Florence Cemetery
• Find marriage information for Edward Allen and Magnolia Elrod.

Notes

Again, what is detailed here is what is available from the folks at Ancestry.com. There are a number of books available at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters through the NGS book collection that I will be looking at, hopefully, this week.

Tags: Allen Family, Elrod Family, Genealogy, Missouri, Montgomery County, Windsor Family, Wright Family