Joseph Paul ALLEN

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Magnolia, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Census: 1930, Living with parents in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Medical Cond'tn: Occlusion, right coronary artery Arteriosclerosis, coronary
• Census: 1920, Living in Magnolia, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Occupation: 1920; Assistant Post Master - Post Office
• Census: 1930, Living in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Occupation: 1930; Assistant Post Master - Post Office

Notes:

Information from Mariana L Zuelsdorf:
While Tom Allen remained in some contact with his father, he had no known contact with his mother nor any of his Griffin or Robey relatives after 1920. He told his daughter, Mary Martha, that he was very fond of his grandparents, but he didn't like working on the farm To her knowledge, Tom Allen never returned to Harrison County and she never saw her Grandmother Rosetta. when James S. Griffin died, no mention was made in this obituary about Rosetta or her children.

Thomas married Anna Mae HARMAN on 14 May 1914 in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia. Anna (daughter of Joseph Samuel HARMAN and Mary BAUDER) was born on 27 Feb 1889 in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia; died on 01 Feb 1961 in Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa, San Diego County, California; was buried on 06 Feb 1961 in Greenlawn Memorial Park, New Martinsville, West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Magnolia, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Magnolia, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia

Notes:

Information from Mariana L Zuelsdorf:
The children of New Martinsville used to collect bones, and when the bone boats would come down the Ohio from Wheeling, the children would take the bones down to the river where they would be weighted. In return for the bones, the children would receive chits, which could be used to buy items on board the boat. As a child, Anna Harman did this, and with her chits, bought two lead crystal cut glass bowls for her mother. These bowls were eventually given to Mary Martha Allen Harnbrok by Anna Harman Allen. We always referred to them as the "bone bowls." (Mariana Zuelsdorf has one of them now)

Obituary from Newspaper
Mrs. T.G. Allen
Mrs. Anna Harman Allen, wife of T.G. Allen and member of a pioneer family of this area, died suddenly Wednesday, February 1st at 9:45 PM, in Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, California, the city where Mr. and Mrs. Allen had resided for two years. Born in New Martinsville, February 27th, 1889, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Mary Bouder Harman, and the last of her family.
With the exception of two years, Mrs. Allen had spent her entire life in the town of her birth, having moved to California two years ago. Surviving are her husband, a son, Dr. Joseph Allen of New Martinsville; and a daughter, Mrs. Gene Hornbrook, of La Mesa, California; and seven grandchildren.
She was a member of the First Methodist Church in this city; a charter member and Past Matron of New Martinsville Chapter No. 50 Order of Easter (sic) Star, and would have celebrated her fiftieth year as a member in April 1961.
The body was returned to New Martinsville, and taken to the Wells Funeral Home on Maple Avenue, where friends were received. Ritualistic services were conducted by officers and members of Chapter No. 50, O.E.S., on Sunday evening at seven o'clock. Services were held at the Funeral Home on Monday afternoon at two o'clock, with the Rev. Sumner D. Sayers officiating. Interment was in Greenlawn Memorial park.