EUNICE ALICE ALLEN
Eunice Alice Allen was born March 25, 1861 in Missouri. Her parents were John Harrison Allen and Jariah Sampson. She married John Conrad Sharp. She died June 28, 1944, in Los Angeles County, California.
JOHN HARRISON ALLEN
John Harrison Allen was born in 1838 in Putnam County, Indiana. He was the son of Harrison Allen and Hannah Frakes. His father, Harrison, died in a horse accident when John was an infant. His mother remarried to David McMahan when John was about 14 years old. John married Jariah Sampson on March 17, 1858 in Buchanan County, Missouri.
Jariah Sampson was born on August 22, 1837 in Kentucky. She was the daughter of William M. Sampson and Lavisa Lynch. Her father died when she was a young girl.
John and Jariah were the parents of Benjamin Franklin, Eunice Alice, William Harrison, John Henry, James Madison, Willis Calvin, and Orpha Jane. Jariah Allen died on March 17, 1897 and John Harrison Allen died on January 23, 1905 in Maryville, Nodaway, Missouri. They are both buried in Oak Hill East Cemetery in Maryville.