Allen, Daniel Jones

Daniel J., son of Asa Allen and Lucy Graves was born Aug 17, 1836. He died at Millport, N.Y. in 1928 at the age of 91. He married Ruth Buck.

Children of Daniel J. and Ruth: Minnie born no dates; Stanley Grow (our Ancestor) died Dec 3, 1929 in Elmira, N.Y. age 69; Lucy Starr married Charles S. Starr (died May 9, 1935) Feb 17, 1906 and died Nov 29, 1952 age 85 in Elmira, N.Y.; Fred died Oct 16, 1945 in Liverpool, England. Stanley and Lucy were buried in Veteran cemetery Horseheads, N.Y.
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Birth: Aug. 17, 1836, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Feb. 7, 1928

Family links:
Spouses:
Emma J. Holton Allen (1858 - ____)*
Ruth A. Buck Allen (1837 - 1913)*

Children:
Lucy E. Allen Starr (1867 - 1952)*

Burial: Van Duzer Cemetery. Veteran. Chemung County. New York, USA

The Rev. Daniel J. Allen of Millport died Wednesday morning after a
brief illness. He was a retired Baptist minister, having preached
until two years ago at South Hannibal, N.Y., where he held the
pastorate for 10 years. Mr. Allen is survived by his widow; a
daughter, Mrs. C. S. Starr of Millport; two sons, Stanley G. Allen of
this city, Fred L. Allen of Liverpool, Eng.; one granddaughter, Mrs.
Harold F. Ames of Elmira. A prayer service will be held Saturday at
1:30 p.m. at the family home in Millport. the funeral will be held at
the Methodist Church at Millport at 2 p.m. The Rev. Mr. Pettingill
and the Rev. R. O. Norris will officiate. Burial in VanDuzer Cemetery
at Sullivanville. (1928)
Millport, Mar. 7. -- The Rev. D. J. Allen suffered a paralytic seizure
Friday night and is critically ill. The Rev. Mr. Allen, who is the
father of Mrs. Charles Starr, is 91 years old, retired from the
pastorate of the Baptist Church at South Hannibel about two years ago,
and with his wife has made his home here since.

Findings in Ames'' Genealogy by Western Reserve Historical Society
1. Allen, Daniel J.''s family
Based on 12th Census of U.S.A., State of New York, County of
Stenben, Town of Howard, dated on 22nd of June 1900 by Brasted, Daniel
L. (SOUNDEX 1900 NY)
Home number:
Number of dwelling house in the order of visitation: 207
Number of family, in the order of visitation: 213
Names: Allen, Daniel J.
Head, August 1836, Age 63, 43 years married
Place of birth of this person: PA
Place of birth of Father of this person: VT
Place of birth of Mother of this person: NY
Occupation: Clergyman
Allen, Ruth
Wife, May 1837, Age 63, 43 years married
Had 4 children but 3 living children with
Place of birth of this person: PA

Place of birth of Mother of this person: NY
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CHILDREN OF LUCY GRAVES (517) AND ASA ALLEN

Daniel Jones Allen (1528) was born 17 Aug. 1836 and died in March 1928. He married Ruth A. Buck on 28 Dec. 1856. She died 3 Jan. 1913.

A summary of his life stated: In Daniel J. Allens early life he was a farmer and taught school winters. He felt a call to preach he was a Baptist but did not follow the call til later in life when living in Elmira, NY. Then he was asked to do some evangelistic work by the Rev. Henry, a famous preacher of the Baptist denomination, and followed that by preaching. He preached at Howard, NY for fifteen years. They thought enough of him so that years after he left, in repairing the church, put in a window in his memory. He is still living, but has recently given up preaching.

Their children were born in East Smithfield, PA. (R-178)

Children - Allen
+3150. Minnie Gertrude Allen, b. 4 Dec. 1857, m. William G. Scott, 1879, d. 1885.
+3151. Stanley Grow Allen, b. 1860, m. Alice Fitch Campbell, 1881, d. 1929.
3152. Lucy Emma Allen, b. 1868, m. Charles S. Starr (of Elmira, NY), 1906. No children. Lived in Millport, NY.
+3153. Fred Leland Allen, b. 24 Aug. 1873, m. Della May Saxton.
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Thursday, March, 1928. Millport. Rev. Daniel J. Allen - A Good Man, A Faithful Worker, Passed to His Reward March 7th, Aged 91 Years.

Rev. Daniel J. Allen departed this live March 7th, having reached the advanced age of 91 years of active life.

Born in 1836, on the Allen homstead near Smithfield, Pa. he devoted the early years of his life to agriculture, staying on the home acres until the death of his parents freed him from filial duty. He had married his boyhood''s playmate, Miss Ruth Buck, also of Smithfield and three children had been born to them. Selling the farm he moved to Watkins Glen and engaged in the feed and produce business, fifty years ago he sold this business and moving to a farm near Sullivanville he again took up farming. The call to preach the gospel pursued him all these years and finally he entered the ministry of the Baptist church. Among the charges he has served are Hunt, N.Y., Howard in Steuben county, Virgil, near Cortland and South Hannibal, N.Y. where he closed a ten-year pastorate in 1926 when he was nearing the ninetieth anniversary of his birth.

After fifty years of happily married life, Mrs. Allen died and the husband was obliged to give up the labors of the ministry but after three years he again entered the active service and was assigned the work in the Baptist church in Virgil. Here in 1913 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Emma J. Holton who survives him. They moved to the Baptist parsonage at South Hannibal, N.Y. in 1916 and cared for the work there until June 1926, when advancing age made it necessary for Mr. Allen to give up the active work of the ministry and they moved to Millport and established a home in part of the house owned by their daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Starr.

In the year and a half they have lived here they have been "in labors abundant", "feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick". Mr. Allen possessed a fine tenor voice and added much to the musical program of the Baptist church here and assisted the pastors of both the Baptist and Methodist churches in many ways.

Sunday, Feb. 26, Mr. Allen was prostrated by a heart seizure, but recovered sufficiently to be about the house. However realizing that the end of life was near he calmly made all arrangements for the funeral services and attended to such business matters as would relieve Mrs. Allen who is not strong all possible care. During the night of Mar. 2nd he suffered a paralytic shock and while seeming to recognize his friends he was unable to speak and passed away Wednesday Mar. 7th.

Because of repair work in progress at the Baptist church the funeral was held in the Methodist church with Rev. Earl Pettengill and Rev. R. O. Norris in charge, both young men who gratefully acknowledged Mr. Allen''s kind helpfulness to them in their work. His springtly step and kindly greetings will be missed by many in Millport. A christian testimony he loved to give was "I have only touched the hem of His garment". He was laid to rest in the Maple Grove cemetery near Sullivanville. His widow, a devoted daughter, Mrs. Chas. Starr of Millport and two sons, Stanley of Elmira, and Frederick of England mourn their loss but rejoice in his gain -- "For he was a good man full of the Holy Ghost and faith".

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