Individual Details

Marriage to Ira Allen, 11 Jul 1819, performed by Joseph Dickson.

20 Mar 1822
p. 374
This Indenture made the twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two betoween Lydia Allen wife of Ira Allen of Harrison Township Vigo County and State of Indiana of the first part and Henry Frink of the same place aforesaid of the second part Witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and thirty five dollars to her in hand paid by the said party of the second part the receipt....
....all that certain tract or parcel of land being the residue of the southwest quarter of Section Five of Township Thirteen North in Range Nine west in the District of Vincennes in the State of Indiana, after taking therefrom One Hundred acres off the north side thereof which was conveyed by Nathan Cargill of Richmond County of Ontario and State of New York to Lemuel C. Curtis by deed bearing date the twenty seventh day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty which said residue is supposed to contain sixty acres be the same more or less, being part of the land granted by the United States of America to James Harmon late a private in the Corps of Canadian Volunteers by letters patent dated the fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Lydia acknowledged and the deed was recorded 19 Nov 1822.


Found in the 1870 Census. Terre Haute, Ward 5, Vigo Co IN, Hh 454
Shelby French, age 48, Time keeper, Railraod, b. IN
Louisa French, age 33, b. IN
Sarah J. age 14, born Ohio
Lydia Allen, age 73, born Rhode Island
Peter Allen, age 27, b. IN, Machinist
Lola Allen, age 2, b. IN

Found the lineage of Lydia and Zelota Cargill online. Said to have come from Descendants of Roger Williams, Book 1: The Waterman and Winsor Lines Through His Daughter Mercy Williams. Dorothy Higson White & Kay Kirlin Moore; 2004.
If the family has been put together correctly, their brother Hartford Cargill was living in Vigo Co IN in 1820. There were a number of adults in his household - quite possibly some of his siblings. I believe there is an error in the book as they have attached the death of a Nathan Cargill, 2 Oct 1852, as being that of the father of Lydia, Zelota & Hartford. I believe it more likely it was the death of their older brother of the same name. In Lima, Livingston Co NY, is a Nathan Cargill, age 64, born Rhode Island - born about 1786, he isn't old enough to be the father. Living with him is a Sybil, age 67 - she may be his stepmother, or both Nathans married ladies named Sybil. Since the elder Nathan already had at least eight children by his first wife before he married Sybil, she may very well have been much younger than he. A Samuel, age 27, born New York, also lived with Nathan and Sybil; he is likely a much younger half brother to Nathan age 64.
The family appears to be descended from several of the early Providence RI families including Roger Williams and Richard Arnold - many of these families were also connected in some way to the Comstock family.


Woodlawn Cemetery, Terre Haute
Lydia Allen: Birth 1792 Death Feb. 1876
Note: Interred on 2 Feb 1876
It seems a little odd that Lydia would have been buried in this cemetery, and not Ira. There is noted on FindAGrave, in this cemetery, a "J" Allen who was interred 13 Jan 1866 (also in the cemetery book in the Vigo Library). This is about a month before his death date given in the Warde book, but the date in the book perhaps came from sort of estate action and was not really his date of death. Ira died in Clay County as stated in the obituary of his brother Peter - from an accident, but the obit had the year as 1869.

Birth	1797	Rhode Island
Marriage	11 Jul 1819	Vigo County, Indiana - Ira Allen
Death	Feb 1876	Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana

Spouse	Ira Allen (1799 - 1866)
Child	Nathaniel Allen (1822 - 1912)
Child	Edward B. Allen (1832 - 1901)
Child	Louisa Caroline Allen (1835 - 1910)
Child	Peter B. Allen (1841 - 1896)

Father	Nathan Cargill (1768 - 1852)
Mother	Mercy Angell ( - )
Sibling	Nathan Cargill (1809 - )
Sibling	Hartford Cargill ( - )
Sibling	William Cargill ( - )
Sibling	Abigail Cargill ( - )
Sibling	Almira Cargill ( - )
Sibling	Zelota Cargill (1800 - )
Sibling	Daniel Cargill (1808 - )