Person:Ebenezer Allen (1)

The father was born on the Isle of Prudence, Rhode Island, and was a son of Rev. William Allen, who married Mollie Fairbanks. They were residents of Rhode Island during the Revolutionary war, and most of their property was destroyed by the British soldiers at that time. Commodore Perry was a classmate of Ebenezer Allen, and a strong friendship existed between them. Ebenezer Allen married Abigail Slocum previous to his location in Montgomery County. They had fourteen children—William, Sallie, Samuel, Sebra, Rachel, Ebenezer, Henry, Hezekiah, Stephen, Abbie, Jonathan, Rhoda, Mary and Matthew. The family settled in Wethersfield, Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1818, where the father entered a tract of woodland and lived there for several years, and where the mother died. Later the family removed to Jackson Township. Ebenezer’s second wife was Jane Wochard, and they had one daughter—Lydia. Ebenezer returned to York State, and while there was married to Sallie Card. They returned to Ohio and settled in Fowler, where his death occurred in a few years.