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Solomon Allen family disappears in Beaver Dam, Butler, MO
by LaRae Free Kerr
1 Nov 2009
Solomon (Saul) Allen b 21 Feb 1818 St Clair Co IL d about 1871 in Butler Co MO or Randolph Co IL md Naome (Oma) Lane 17 Apr 1842 in St Clair Co IL. Solomon was a lumberman. They had 6 known children: Louis Allen b 1842, Emeline Allen b 1848, Perkins Allen b 1851, Mary Allen b between 1852 and 1857, John Allen b 21 Jun 1859, and Alta Allen b May 1863. The family lived in St Clair, Jersey, Calhoun Counties in Illinois until in 1870 census these members of the family were in Beaver Dam, Butler County, Missouri: Naomi (listed as Nancy but the age and other information matches), Lewis, Perkins, Mary, John, Allasia (sic). In 1872 Louis Allen md Mary Emerline Floyd (Floid) in Beaver Dam. This is the last record I can find for him under any variation of his name throughout the US using Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. In the 1876 census of Beaver Dam, Butler, MO appear these family members in separate households: Mary E Allen and little son Wm S Allen (wife and child of Louis Allen?) living with her fathers’ family, Wm F Floid, and Perkins Allen. (There is a Nancy E Allen in twp 23 R5 p 18, but she is much too young to be the same Nancy as was in the 1870 census.) The 1880 census shows only one family member in Beaver Dam, and that is Perkins Allen. Three of Solomon's children are accounted for: Alta Allen Steelman spent her adult life in Greene Co IL; Emeline Allen Douglass married and died in Randolph Co IL; John Allen married and lived in Randolph Co IL. The William Floid (Floyd) family consisted of his wife Elizabeth Parrylou Hearnon and children James, Paradine, Mary Emerline, William, Daniel, Galatea, Samuel, Loisiana, and Hezekiah according to 1870 and 1876 censuses. But for these members of the Allen family, Beaver Dam, Butler, MO became a black hole: Solomon, Naome (Nancy), Louis and his family Mary Emerline and William, Perkins, and Mary. Beaver Dam is also a black hole for the Floyd family as they disappear between the 1876 and 1880 censuses. |
