Samuel C. Allen b.1846 son of Jeremiah & Hanna (Brelsford) Allen
Not my family line, just sharing.
The following Biographical sketch was copied from the book "HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA. Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers. 1883.
page 749, Tippecanoe Township, Pulaski County, Indiana.
"SAMUEL C. ALLEN was born in this township April 13, 1846, and is one of the eleven children - six boys and five girls - born to JEREMIAH and HANNAH (BRELSFORD) ALLEN. At the age of twenty-four, SAMUEL went to Plymouth (Marshall County), Indiana, where he lived about six years, then moved three miles to the north, having purchased a farm of 120 acres, and there lived about two and a half years. In 1880, he returned to Monterey, resided about a year in town, and then moved upon his present place, one mile west, comprising 157 acres. He was married, March 23, 1869, to ALMA WISEMAN, at Plymouth; she has borne him four sons and two daughters, viz.: METTIE, HETTIE, LAWSON (deceased), DOW, JERRY and SAMPLE. MR. ALLEN gives his chief attention to raising wheat, corn, and clover, and also stock-raising. He owns, besides his homestead, twenty acres of timber land in Fulton County. He is a trustworthy citizen, and is a member of the Methodist Church."