Elijah Walker
(1835-1918)
Elizabeth Catherine Gallaspie
(1839-1931)
Oma Elizabeth Walker
(1867-1953)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Walter Truman Allen
2. Ulysses S. Grant Allen

Oma Elizabeth Walker 1 2

  • Born: 16 Oct 1867, Saint George, Pottawatomie, KS, United States 1 2 3
  • Marriage (1): Walter Truman Allen on 23 Jul 1902 in Manhattan, Riley, KS, United States 1
  • Marriage (2): Ulysses S. Grant Allen in 1906
  • Died: 21 Apr 1953, Denver, Denver, CO at age 85 2 3 4
  • Buried: Manhattan, Riley, KS, United States 2

   FamilySearch ID: GPD4-JPY.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence: on 13 Feb 1908 in Dalhart, Dallam, TX, United States. 5

2. Obituary: Manhattan Nationalist on 13 Feb 1908 in Manhattan, Riley, KS, United States. 5 Was County Clerk.
Mrs. Oma Allen returned to her home in Dalhart, Tex., this week. Her husband, Truman Allen, whose death occurred last week and whose body was brought here for burial, was county clerk at Dalhart, Tex., and Mrs. Allen was called home to fill the vacancy until his term would have expired.

3. Obituary: Manhattan Mercury: obituary of Mrs. Oma Allen on 24 Apr 1953 in Manhattan, Riley, KS, United States. 3 Mrs. Oma Allen
A short prayer service will be held for Mrs. Oma E. Allen, 84, who died Tuesday at Denver, Colorado, at the Courser funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Burial will be at Sunset cemetery. The Rev. Leslie Kingsbury will conduct the rites. Funeral services were held Thursday in Denver where Mrs. Allen had made her home for the last 35 years. A native of this vicinity, she was born Oct. 16, 1868, at St. George. Mrs. Allen is survived by one sister, Mrs. Flora A. Walker, of St. George.

4. Census in 1930 in Denver, Denver, CO. 6 The 1930 census recorded owning an $8000 home at 2357 Dahlia Street: Ulysses S. G. Allen, no occupation, 65, living with wife Oma E. Allen, 62. He was born in Indiana, his father in Ohio, and mother in Pennsylvania. She was born in Kansas, her father in Vermont, and mother in Kentucky. They were married when he was 43 and she 39.

5. Obituary: Manhattan Mercury: obituary of Mrs. Oma Allen on 24 Apr 1953 in Manhattan, Riley, KS, United States. 7 A short prayer service will be held for Mrs. Oma E. Allen, 84, who died Tuesday at Denver, Colorado, at the Courser funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Burial will be at Sunset cemetery. The Rev. Leslie Kingsbury will conduct the rites. Funeral services were held Thursday in Denver where Mrs. Allen had made her home for the last 35 years. A native of this vicinity, she was born Oct. 16, 1868, at St. George. Mrs. Allen is survived by one sister, Mrs. Flora A. Walker, of St. George.


Oma married Walter Truman Allen, son of Wilson D. Allen and Almina Beecher, on 23 Jul 1902 in Manhattan, Riley, KS, United States.1 (Walter Truman Allen was born on 17 Mar 1875 in Jefferson Twp., Miami, IN,8 died on 4 Feb 1908 in Dalhart, Dallam, TX, United States 8 and was buried in Manhattan, Riley, KS, United States 8.)


Oma next married Ulysses S. Grant Allen, son of Wilson D. Allen and Almina Beecher, in 1906. (Ulysses S. Grant Allen was born on 28 Jun 1864 in Jefferson Twp., Miami, IN,9 10 died on 19 Apr 1945 in Denver, Denver, CO 9 11 and was buried on 23 Apr 1945 in Manhattan, Riley, KS, United States 9 11.)


Sources


1 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch," database, FamilySearch (http://new.familysearch.org : accessed 5 Feb 2024), entry for Walter Truman Allen, person ID K8JG-52L.

2 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35381654.

3 "The Manhattan Mercury (Manhattan, KS)," 24 Apr 1953, page 2. Obituary of Mrs. Oma Allen.

4 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch," database, FamilySearch (http://new.familysearch.org : accessed 6 Feb 2024), entry for Oma Elizabeth Walker, person ID GPD4-JPY.

5 "Manhattan Nationalist (Manhattan, KS)," 13 Feb 1908, page 1.

6 1930 United States Census, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7W1-DJR Ulysses S G Allen Denver CO.

7 "The Manhattan Mercury (Manhattan, KS)," 24 Apr 1953, page 2. Obituary of Oma E. Allen.

8 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35381838.

9 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35381808.

10 Wilson D. Allen, "Wilson Family Bible" (Photographs of Wilson Family Bible provided by Susan L. Allen Owens).

11 "The Manhattan Mercury (Manhattan, KS)," 22 Apr 1945, page 1. Funeral of Ulysses Allen.



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