Individual Details

Her name is also seen as Dinnegan/Dunnegan/Dunnagan. There were numerous families of this name in Polk Co AR. It is most often seen in databases online as Dunagan.

1870 census gave her age as 24, born in Georgia.
1880 census gave her age as 32, born in Arkansas with both her parents born in Georgia.

1900 census said Mary said born in AR; her father b. Georgia, her mother b. in NC.

According to information from Shirley Garrison, Mary was hit by a train and killed in March of 1912. She was hard of hearing and had on a bonnet and simply did not hear the train. She is said to be buried in the Crowder, Pittsburg Co OK cemetery.

McAlester, Okla., May 21--Mrs. P. B. P. Allen, a white woman was struck by a Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight train near Crowder and instantly killed.
(The Daily Oklahoman, Wed., May 22, 1912)

She is listed on FindAGrave, Memorial #18540079: Birth: 1845. Death: May 20, 1912 [conflicts with family story that she died in March of 1912 - but the newspaper confirms that the family story is in error.]
Mary is buried Crowder Cemetery, Pittsburg Co, OK

Birth	Oct 1846	Arkansas
Marriage	1868	Peter B. P. "Port" Allen
Death	20 May 1912	Crowder, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

Spouse	Peter B. P. "Port" Allen (1846 - 1926)
Child	Edward\Edwin Franklin Allen (1869 - 1953)
Child	Charles Henry Allen (1872 - 1926)
Child	Minerva Emma Josephine Allen (1874 - 1937)
Child	Myron Marshall Allen (1882 - )
Child	Porter Emett Allen (1885 - )
Child	Mary Etta Allen (1889 - 1931)

Father	Andrew Franklin Dunagan (1812 - 1862)
Mother	Emilia Minerva Dempsey (1820 - 1894)
Sibling	Joshua Dunagan (1839 - )
Sibling	Thomas Benton Dunagan (1840 - 1910)
Sibling	Louisa Dunagan (1842 - )
Sibling	Samuel W. Dunagan (1843 - )
Sibling	Arrena Dunagan (1847 - 1913)
Sibling	Delila A. Dunagan (1849 - )
Sibling	John Dunagan (1852 - )
Sibling	Riley Brewster Dunagan (1853 - 1926)
Sibling	Marshal Dunagan (1855 - )
Sibling	Lorenzo Dunagan (1856 - )
Sibling	William Dunagan (1860 - 1867)
Sibling	Harvey Dunagan (1863 - )