Daughter of Oliver H Sewall and Elizabeth Jane Miller. She married William J. Allen in 1881. Several children were born before Jane died. From the census the couple moved to Iowa about 1890. The youngest child was born in Iowa.
The 1900 census shows the family living in Eddyville, Mahaska, Iowa in Harrison Township. The house is owned by William J. Allen. The census says he is employed as a carpenter.
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Eddyville, Feb. 16.— Mrs. W.J. Allen, a highly esteemed woman of this place, passed away at 11:30 o'clock, Friday forenoon, February 10, at her home on North Fourth street, age forty-three years, three months and nineteen days. Ida J. Sewell was born October 21, 1861, in Mercer
county, Pennsylvania. She was married to Wm. J. Allen, in
Pennsylvania, on June 21, 1881. They came to Eddyville in 1886 and have resided here since.
Mrs. Allen became a member of the United Presbyterian church in 1883.
On coming to this place she joined the Congregational church. She had been ailing over a year. Her last illness, however, was of about three weeks duration, death resulting from dropsy arising from a complication
Of diseases. Her death is made more sad by reason of it being the first to occur in the family.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sewell, of Pennsylvania, her husband, W.J. Allen, her three children, Laura L., Ralph and Flossie, and her brothers and sisters,. Milton, Wm., Lewis, Edward and Mesdames Catherine Shaffer and Hattie Neal, of Pennsylvania and Mrs. Rebecca Troutman, of Akron, Ohio, are all left to mourn the first death in the family.
In accordance with her last request the remains will be taken to her old home at New Wilmington, Penn. for burial. The husband and the three children departed with the body on the 7:49 Rock Island passenger train Saturday morning. The funeral services were conducted at the home at 7:30 Friday evening, Rev. C.W. Hempstead, of the Congregational
church, having charge.
During the eighteen years which Mrs. Allen had lived here she had made a goodly number of friends, who sympathize with the family in their great grief. Mr. Allen and son, Ralph, will return from Pennsylvania in a week or two, but the two daughters will remain several months.
(From the Ottumwa Courier, (Ottumwa, Iowa) THURSDAY, February 16, 1905, PG 5)
The 1900 census shows the family living in Eddyville, Mahaska, Iowa in Harrison Township. The house is owned by William J. Allen. The census says he is employed as a carpenter.
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Eddyville, Feb. 16.— Mrs. W.J. Allen, a highly esteemed woman of this place, passed away at 11:30 o'clock, Friday forenoon, February 10, at her home on North Fourth street, age forty-three years, three months and nineteen days. Ida J. Sewell was born October 21, 1861, in Mercer
county, Pennsylvania. She was married to Wm. J. Allen, in
Pennsylvania, on June 21, 1881. They came to Eddyville in 1886 and have resided here since.
Mrs. Allen became a member of the United Presbyterian church in 1883.
On coming to this place she joined the Congregational church. She had been ailing over a year. Her last illness, however, was of about three weeks duration, death resulting from dropsy arising from a complication
Of diseases. Her death is made more sad by reason of it being the first to occur in the family.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sewell, of Pennsylvania, her husband, W.J. Allen, her three children, Laura L., Ralph and Flossie, and her brothers and sisters,. Milton, Wm., Lewis, Edward and Mesdames Catherine Shaffer and Hattie Neal, of Pennsylvania and Mrs. Rebecca Troutman, of Akron, Ohio, are all left to mourn the first death in the family.
In accordance with her last request the remains will be taken to her old home at New Wilmington, Penn. for burial. The husband and the three children departed with the body on the 7:49 Rock Island passenger train Saturday morning. The funeral services were conducted at the home at 7:30 Friday evening, Rev. C.W. Hempstead, of the Congregational
church, having charge.
During the eighteen years which Mrs. Allen had lived here she had made a goodly number of friends, who sympathize with the family in their great grief. Mr. Allen and son, Ralph, will return from Pennsylvania in a week or two, but the two daughters will remain several months.
(From the Ottumwa Courier, (Ottumwa, Iowa) THURSDAY, February 16, 1905, PG 5)
Daughter of Oliver H Sewall and Elizabeth Jane Miller. She married William J. Allen in 1881. Several children were born before Jane died. From the census the couple moved to Iowa about 1890. The youngest child was born in Iowa.
The 1900 census shows the family living in Eddyville, Mahaska, Iowa in Harrison Township. The house is owned by William J. Allen. The census says he is employed as a carpenter.
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Eddyville, Feb. 16.— Mrs. W.J. Allen, a highly esteemed woman of this place, passed away at 11:30 o'clock, Friday forenoon, February 10, at her home on North Fourth street, age forty-three years, three months and nineteen days. Ida J. Sewell was born October 21, 1861, in Mercer
county, Pennsylvania. She was married to Wm. J. Allen, in
Pennsylvania, on June 21, 1881. They came to Eddyville in 1886 and have resided here since.
Mrs. Allen became a member of the United Presbyterian church in 1883.
On coming to this place she joined the Congregational church. She had been ailing over a year. Her last illness, however, was of about three weeks duration, death resulting from dropsy arising from a complication
Of diseases. Her death is made more sad by reason of it being the first to occur in the family.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sewell, of Pennsylvania, her husband, W.J. Allen, her three children, Laura L., Ralph and Flossie, and her brothers and sisters,. Milton, Wm., Lewis, Edward and Mesdames Catherine Shaffer and Hattie Neal, of Pennsylvania and Mrs. Rebecca Troutman, of Akron, Ohio, are all left to mourn the first death in the family.
In accordance with her last request the remains will be taken to her old home at New Wilmington, Penn. for burial. The husband and the three children departed with the body on the 7:49 Rock Island passenger train Saturday morning. The funeral services were conducted at the home at 7:30 Friday evening, Rev. C.W. Hempstead, of the Congregational
church, having charge.
During the eighteen years which Mrs. Allen had lived here she had made a goodly number of friends, who sympathize with the family in their great grief. Mr. Allen and son, Ralph, will return from Pennsylvania in a week or two, but the two daughters will remain several months.
(From the Ottumwa Courier, (Ottumwa, Iowa) THURSDAY, February 16, 1905, PG 5)
The 1900 census shows the family living in Eddyville, Mahaska, Iowa in Harrison Township. The house is owned by William J. Allen. The census says he is employed as a carpenter.
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Eddyville, Feb. 16.— Mrs. W.J. Allen, a highly esteemed woman of this place, passed away at 11:30 o'clock, Friday forenoon, February 10, at her home on North Fourth street, age forty-three years, three months and nineteen days. Ida J. Sewell was born October 21, 1861, in Mercer
county, Pennsylvania. She was married to Wm. J. Allen, in
Pennsylvania, on June 21, 1881. They came to Eddyville in 1886 and have resided here since.
Mrs. Allen became a member of the United Presbyterian church in 1883.
On coming to this place she joined the Congregational church. She had been ailing over a year. Her last illness, however, was of about three weeks duration, death resulting from dropsy arising from a complication
Of diseases. Her death is made more sad by reason of it being the first to occur in the family.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sewell, of Pennsylvania, her husband, W.J. Allen, her three children, Laura L., Ralph and Flossie, and her brothers and sisters,. Milton, Wm., Lewis, Edward and Mesdames Catherine Shaffer and Hattie Neal, of Pennsylvania and Mrs. Rebecca Troutman, of Akron, Ohio, are all left to mourn the first death in the family.
In accordance with her last request the remains will be taken to her old home at New Wilmington, Penn. for burial. The husband and the three children departed with the body on the 7:49 Rock Island passenger train Saturday morning. The funeral services were conducted at the home at 7:30 Friday evening, Rev. C.W. Hempstead, of the Congregational
church, having charge.
During the eighteen years which Mrs. Allen had lived here she had made a goodly number of friends, who sympathize with the family in their great grief. Mr. Allen and son, Ralph, will return from Pennsylvania in a week or two, but the two daughters will remain several months.
(From the Ottumwa Courier, (Ottumwa, Iowa) THURSDAY, February 16, 1905, PG 5)
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