Elizabeth Wilson Robinson Allen was born in St. Louis, Missouri March 8, 1838. When she applied for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution she supplied the following information:
The ancestor cited was William Wilson. Wilson was the bearer of the Treaty of 1776 to Fort Detroit to induce the Indians to assemble at Ft. Pitt against the British. Buried in Trinity Churchyard, Pittsburgh
Great grandfather, William Wilson—born PA 1745, died MD
Grandparents David Wilson--born in Allegheny County, PA 1780 and Mary Enoch born in Wales 1785, died in Allegheny County, PA 1850
Her parents--Mary Enoch Wilson—maried William Robinson in Allegheny, PA about 1835. William Robinson died in St Louis, MO in 1841 Was an iron worker.
Three children
William B. Robinson of Knoxville Iowa in 1911
John H. Robinson of Oil City, PA
Elizabeth Wilson Robinson b March 8, 1838 in St. Louis
William Wilson—Jane Wilson
David Wilson-Elizabeth Wilson
William Robinson—Mary Enoch Wilson
Elizabeth Wilson Robinson—Col EJA
Mary Lucy Allen and Edna Jay Allen also applied for membership in the DAR.
Pittsburgh Press
January 2, 1916
MRS. ELIZABETH W.R. ALLEN
A victim of grief, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson Robinson Allen, aged 77, widow of Col. Edward Jay Allen, died Friday night at the family home 207 Lytton st., five days after the death of her husband, Col. Allen died Sunday, aged 85, Mrs. Allen, while not in the best of health had not been seriously ill up to that time. Mrs. Allen was born in St. Louis. Her girlhood was spent in Pittsburg. She attended the Misses Townsend's school, known as the New Brighton Seminary, from which she was graduated in 1852. She was married in Pittsburg July 16, 1857, and she and Col. Allen celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1907. Her early married life was spent in Washington D.C. and later in Virginia, where her husband was engaged in railroad construction. At the outbreak of the Civil war the young couple, with their eldest child, an infant in arms, were captured by a band of guerrillas near the Kentucky line and taken as prisoners of war to Tazewell Court House, Va., and thence to Richmond, from which city they were finally sent out under flag of truce to Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Allen came from colonial stock, being a decendant of William Wilson, who induced the Indians to come from Fort Detroit to Fort Pitt in 1775 to enter into a treaty with the Pennsylvania commissioners here. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a communicant of Calvary Protestant Episcopal church. She is survived by five children, William H. Allen, Mrs E.A. Rickmers, May L, Edward H. and Harold Allen.
The ancestor cited was William Wilson. Wilson was the bearer of the Treaty of 1776 to Fort Detroit to induce the Indians to assemble at Ft. Pitt against the British. Buried in Trinity Churchyard, Pittsburgh
Great grandfather, William Wilson—born PA 1745, died MD
Grandparents David Wilson--born in Allegheny County, PA 1780 and Mary Enoch born in Wales 1785, died in Allegheny County, PA 1850
Her parents--Mary Enoch Wilson—maried William Robinson in Allegheny, PA about 1835. William Robinson died in St Louis, MO in 1841 Was an iron worker.
Three children
William B. Robinson of Knoxville Iowa in 1911
John H. Robinson of Oil City, PA
Elizabeth Wilson Robinson b March 8, 1838 in St. Louis
William Wilson—Jane Wilson
David Wilson-Elizabeth Wilson
William Robinson—Mary Enoch Wilson
Elizabeth Wilson Robinson—Col EJA
Mary Lucy Allen and Edna Jay Allen also applied for membership in the DAR.
Pittsburgh Press
January 2, 1916
MRS. ELIZABETH W.R. ALLEN
A victim of grief, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson Robinson Allen, aged 77, widow of Col. Edward Jay Allen, died Friday night at the family home 207 Lytton st., five days after the death of her husband, Col. Allen died Sunday, aged 85, Mrs. Allen, while not in the best of health had not been seriously ill up to that time. Mrs. Allen was born in St. Louis. Her girlhood was spent in Pittsburg. She attended the Misses Townsend's school, known as the New Brighton Seminary, from which she was graduated in 1852. She was married in Pittsburg July 16, 1857, and she and Col. Allen celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1907. Her early married life was spent in Washington D.C. and later in Virginia, where her husband was engaged in railroad construction. At the outbreak of the Civil war the young couple, with their eldest child, an infant in arms, were captured by a band of guerrillas near the Kentucky line and taken as prisoners of war to Tazewell Court House, Va., and thence to Richmond, from which city they were finally sent out under flag of truce to Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Allen came from colonial stock, being a decendant of William Wilson, who induced the Indians to come from Fort Detroit to Fort Pitt in 1775 to enter into a treaty with the Pennsylvania commissioners here. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a communicant of Calvary Protestant Episcopal church. She is survived by five children, William H. Allen, Mrs E.A. Rickmers, May L, Edward H. and Harold Allen.
Elizabeth Wilson Robinson Allen was born in St. Louis, Missouri March 8, 1838. When she applied for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution she supplied the following information:
The ancestor cited was William Wilson. Wilson was the bearer of the Treaty of 1776 to Fort Detroit to induce the Indians to assemble at Ft. Pitt against the British. Buried in Trinity Churchyard, Pittsburgh
Great grandfather, William Wilson—born PA 1745, died MD
Grandparents David Wilson--born in Allegheny County, PA 1780 and Mary Enoch born in Wales 1785, died in Allegheny County, PA 1850
Her parents--Mary Enoch Wilson—maried William Robinson in Allegheny, PA about 1835. William Robinson died in St Louis, MO in 1841 Was an iron worker.
Three children
William B. Robinson of Knoxville Iowa in 1911
John H. Robinson of Oil City, PA
Elizabeth Wilson Robinson b March 8, 1838 in St. Louis
William Wilson—Jane Wilson
David Wilson-Elizabeth Wilson
William Robinson—Mary Enoch Wilson
Elizabeth Wilson Robinson—Col EJA
Mary Lucy Allen and Edna Jay Allen also applied for membership in the DAR.
Pittsburgh Press
January 2, 1916
MRS. ELIZABETH W.R. ALLEN
A victim of grief, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson Robinson Allen, aged 77, widow of Col. Edward Jay Allen, died Friday night at the family home 207 Lytton st., five days after the death of her husband, Col. Allen died Sunday, aged 85, Mrs. Allen, while not in the best of health had not been seriously ill up to that time. Mrs. Allen was born in St. Louis. Her girlhood was spent in Pittsburg. She attended the Misses Townsend's school, known as the New Brighton Seminary, from which she was graduated in 1852. She was married in Pittsburg July 16, 1857, and she and Col. Allen celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1907. Her early married life was spent in Washington D.C. and later in Virginia, where her husband was engaged in railroad construction. At the outbreak of the Civil war the young couple, with their eldest child, an infant in arms, were captured by a band of guerrillas near the Kentucky line and taken as prisoners of war to Tazewell Court House, Va., and thence to Richmond, from which city they were finally sent out under flag of truce to Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Allen came from colonial stock, being a decendant of William Wilson, who induced the Indians to come from Fort Detroit to Fort Pitt in 1775 to enter into a treaty with the Pennsylvania commissioners here. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a communicant of Calvary Protestant Episcopal church. She is survived by five children, William H. Allen, Mrs E.A. Rickmers, May L, Edward H. and Harold Allen.
The ancestor cited was William Wilson. Wilson was the bearer of the Treaty of 1776 to Fort Detroit to induce the Indians to assemble at Ft. Pitt against the British. Buried in Trinity Churchyard, Pittsburgh
Great grandfather, William Wilson—born PA 1745, died MD
Grandparents David Wilson--born in Allegheny County, PA 1780 and Mary Enoch born in Wales 1785, died in Allegheny County, PA 1850
Her parents--Mary Enoch Wilson—maried William Robinson in Allegheny, PA about 1835. William Robinson died in St Louis, MO in 1841 Was an iron worker.
Three children
William B. Robinson of Knoxville Iowa in 1911
John H. Robinson of Oil City, PA
Elizabeth Wilson Robinson b March 8, 1838 in St. Louis
William Wilson—Jane Wilson
David Wilson-Elizabeth Wilson
William Robinson—Mary Enoch Wilson
Elizabeth Wilson Robinson—Col EJA
Mary Lucy Allen and Edna Jay Allen also applied for membership in the DAR.
Pittsburgh Press
January 2, 1916
MRS. ELIZABETH W.R. ALLEN
A victim of grief, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson Robinson Allen, aged 77, widow of Col. Edward Jay Allen, died Friday night at the family home 207 Lytton st., five days after the death of her husband, Col. Allen died Sunday, aged 85, Mrs. Allen, while not in the best of health had not been seriously ill up to that time. Mrs. Allen was born in St. Louis. Her girlhood was spent in Pittsburg. She attended the Misses Townsend's school, known as the New Brighton Seminary, from which she was graduated in 1852. She was married in Pittsburg July 16, 1857, and she and Col. Allen celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1907. Her early married life was spent in Washington D.C. and later in Virginia, where her husband was engaged in railroad construction. At the outbreak of the Civil war the young couple, with their eldest child, an infant in arms, were captured by a band of guerrillas near the Kentucky line and taken as prisoners of war to Tazewell Court House, Va., and thence to Richmond, from which city they were finally sent out under flag of truce to Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Allen came from colonial stock, being a decendant of William Wilson, who induced the Indians to come from Fort Detroit to Fort Pitt in 1775 to enter into a treaty with the Pennsylvania commissioners here. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a communicant of Calvary Protestant Episcopal church. She is survived by five children, William H. Allen, Mrs E.A. Rickmers, May L, Edward H. and Harold Allen.
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