Photo #37022
Last Name: Allen
First Name: Martha
Middle Name: Ellen
Subject's City: Porterville
Subject's State: CA
Subject's County: Tulare
Subject's Country: United States
Date: 1851-1900
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Nee: Allen
Type**: PRT
Comments: Martha Ellen Allen (Nee: Allen) | Porterville CA United States | 1851-1900 | Comments: Martha Ellen Allen Lewis was born in Monroe Co., MO.,14 Jan. 1833, and died in Success Valley, near Porterville, CA 4 Oct. 1915. With her parents, William and Sarah Worley Allen, and a large family, they moved to Sullivan Co., MO. about 1840. She married Joseph Lewis there in 1851, and soon thereafter, traveled by wagon to the California Gold fields, namely, Calaveras Co. Not successful at gold mining, Joseph took his growing family to Tulare Co., where with seveal related families, he homesteaded a section of land on the banks of the Tule River, in what eventually would become the Westfield section of Porterville. She gave birth to 12 children between 1852 and 1878.
[R. Cosby, great great grandson.]
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Martha Allen