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James Irving (bio) ALLEN

Old Sarepta Missionary Baptist Cemetery
Webster County,
Louisiana

August 3, 1858 - November 14, 1934

James I. Allen, a merchant, Sarepta, La. This well-known and prosperous business man is a native-born resident of Webster Parish, his birth occurring in Ward No. 2, on August 3, 1858, and is the son of William Allen, who was born in Walker County, Ala., about 1826. William Allen was one of the following children: Martha, Patience, Eliza, Polly A., John, William, Joseph Benjamin and James. James I. Allen was reared to mature years, and received his education in the common schools of Webster Parish. He was the second in order of birth of ten children, viz: Walter D. (president of the Masonic Female Institute of Bonham, Tex.), Mattie C. (widow of James W. Coyle of Webster Parish), Thomas W., Joseph J., Trebia (now Mrs. A. B. Martin of Webster Parish), Percy Q. (deceased), Pleasant D., Gent and Win. E. In 1882 Mr. James I. Allen was united in marriage, to Miss Luda W. Adams, also a resident of this parish, and the fruits of this union have been one child, Grover Cleveland. Mr. Allen is one of the wide-awake, thoroughgoing business men, and by his pleasant, agreeable manners he built up a good trade. (Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana).

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Submitted: 10/13/15 • Approved: 6/22/18 • Last Updated: 6/25/18 • R108722-G0-S3

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