Family: William Allen / Martha Louisa Davis (F166)

• Father | Male William Allen

  
  

  Born	Bef 1850
  Died	Bef 1868
  Buried
  Married	17 Jan 1865  [1, 2]	White County, Illinois, USA  [1, 2]
  Divorced	Before 1868
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Mother | Female Martha Louisa Davis

  
  

  Born	12 Jun 1850	Illinois, USA
  Died	15 Mar 1917	Iron County, Missouri, USA
  Buried	17 Mar 1917	Mountain View-Center Hill Cemetery, Howell County, Missouri
  Other Spouse	Iva Gerome Deboard | F165
  Married	9 Sep 1868	White County, Illinois, USA
  Father	Isaac Sebastian Davis | F1009 Group Sheet
  Mother	Martha Joyner | F1009 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Female + Laura Jane Allen

  
  

  Born	1865	Illinois, USA
  Died	12 Feb 1904	Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA
  Buried
  Spouse	Adrian L. Deboard | F418
  Married	3 Aug 1881	Howell County, Missouri, USA
  Spouse	Thomas Sidney Mendenhall | F424
  Married	27 Jun 1887	Howell County, Missouri, USA

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Martha would have been about 15 at the time of this first. brief marriage. Divorce was unusual, particularly after such a brief period. It also seems unusual that Ivy DeBoard, from a quite religious family, chose to marry a recently divorced young woman. Martha herself was quite religious--her preacher son remembers her praying loudly and fervently, sometimes at inconvenient times. "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF2L-Y78 : 19 February 2021), William Allen and Martha L. Davis, 17 Jan 1865; citing White, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 977,069.

  
  

• Sources

  [S70] Illinois, White - Marriages (Vaught book), Harriet Vaught, (Carmi, Illinois: s.p., 1950), entry for William Allen and Martha L. Davis (17 Jan 1865) (Reliability: 3). by T. M. Vineyard, with witness Benjamine Allen on [S45] Illinois - Marriages, online, State Archives (1763 - 1900), ("Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/marriage.html)), entry for William Allen and Martha L. Davis, White County, Illinois, vol. 6 (1865) (Reliability: 3). William Allen to Martha L. Davis, on 17 January 1865, White County, Illinois