Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-10
DEATH OF MRS. DINAH AYRES
ALLEN.

'esident OF Clav county, died OH the
18th ult. at the residence of her son,
Eugene Il. Allen, in Leavenworth,
b ansas.
She was born February 19, 1858, III
Estill county, Kentucky. She was a
daughter of the late Gen. Stephen
Trigg, of Howard county, Missouri,
and grand daughter of Maj. John
Trigg, of Virginia, an officer under
at Yorktown, and who
was representative from Virginia III
the 5th, 9th, 9TH and 8th congresses.
She was a. second cousin of the MAJ.
Trigg who was killed in 1882, at the |
battle of Blue Lick. Her mother was
a Clark and sister of Gov. james |
Clark, of Kentucky. The Trigg fami- |
" settled in Virginia about the year
i7lO, emigrating from Wales, but hav-
ing its origin in Cornwall, England.
The Clark family was settled in Vir-
ginia prior to the coming of the Trigg
family. These families were connected
by marriage or blood with the Moor
man, Ayres. Preston, Henderson and
Johns families, OF Virginia.
Gen. Stephen Trigg emigrated from
Bedford county, Virginia, to Kentucky
in 1854, coming by way OF the old emi-
grant trail through Cumberland Gap
In the fall of 1918 he came to Missouri
and settled in Howard county, bring
ing his family with him, including the
subject of this sketch. On the 18th
day of September, 1922, she was mar
ried, in Howard county, Mo-, to the
late Shubael Allen, of this county, and
from marriage until death her home
was in this county. Her husband
died January 1S, 1S41. Mrs. Allen
was the mother of eight children, OF
whom one-Augustus Evans Allen
died at the age of five years, and
another Shubael Allen, Jr.,-died at
the age of twenty three years. Her
surviving children are: Trigg L. Allen,
DR.. John NJ. Allen and D. g. Allen, of
Liberty, Mo-; Eugene B. Allen, of
Leaven orth, Kansas. Il. f. Allen.
of Rich Hill, Mo-, and Mrs. Elizabeth
B. DYER, of Savannah, Ca, widow of
the late Gen Alex. Il. Dyer, U. 5. A.
During the first three years of her
residence in this county, she and her
husband, and her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth
Thornton, and her husband, the late
Col. John Thornton, lived in the same
house, five miles southwest from Lib
erty, on the farm now known as the
"Old Thornton Place." In 1925, Col.
Allen moved to and improved the
place, in this county afterwards known
as Clipper Liberty Landing" She re-
sided there until the year 1850, when
she removed to Liberty. Her immedi-
ate neighbors at Liberty Landing were
the Ewing Collins, Robertson, Murray.
Mitchell aud Arthur families; and it is
a pleasing fact that between her family
and all the members of those families
there has subsisted an unbroken friend
ship and intimacy for the period o.
more than sixty years. An equally
pleasant fact may be told of her pater.
nal family-the Triggs. Members o
that family and of the Park, Bush
Todd, Fugitt and some other families
have been continuously associated fO
at least one hundred years, and Away
in friendship. They pursued the same
} route in emigration from Virginis
, through Kentucky to Missouri, and
while always in amity toward eacf
other, have usually, also, agreed il
! politics and religion.
! In lS44, Mrs. Allen protessed relig
l ion and was baptized into the fellow
l ship of the 2nd Baptist Church, Q
4 Liberty, Mo-, by the Rev. Alvin P
: Williams. OF all the members of tina
q church at the time she became mem
!, Der of it, only Mrs. o. P. Moss, of 81
Joseph, Mo, and Elijah Stout, Esq
u of Ray county, Mo, now survive
The distance of her residence frol
church, prior to 1850, and, after tn
: April of that year, fearful injury re
celved by her, producing partial deal
ness and physical debility during tn
remainder of life, made it almost i'm
possible for her to discharge, with res
e ularity, all of the public functions OF
u religious life; but she had, in the higl
= est degree, the evidence of conversio
: and conservation to God, and that col
n sisted of a perfect conviction of ii
:, truth of the Divine Word and humbl
II eager willingness to obey every con
D mand of it.
y Reared at all early day in KentucE
~ and Missouri, she could only receiy
u the benefit of the common schools
e the country, but it was her good TO
J. tune TO have been under the ins,ructit
J. of one teacher of superior attainmen
Is "a MIR. Moore, an Irish gentlema
Is who was, perhaps, compelled to aba
[, don his native country by reason of h
at connection of '9S. But she was of ,
CT inquiring mind and was a most assid
Ell ons reader from childhood until parti
le loss OF sight short time prior to b
Us death. She, in consequence becan
ne intimately acquainted with history al
III general literature. With the esourc
lc of reading, aided by certain sprigl
illness of wit and quick fancy,as we'll
ro by genial, kindly temperament, s
IS was always interesting in convers
\ ton.
~ Her circle of acquaintance in t
\ southwestern, western and Paci
al states of the union was very large, a
ad in it she was held by all in the highs
he esteem and affection. AS befo
EN- stated, she was the longest living re!
ne dent of the county, and with her 8
elr forever lost many of the incidents &C
iyo nected with its early history. She 8,
an western Missouri in its state of natu
IT, fresh from the occupancy of t
Id Indians, and witnesses every step
"a. its progression from the wilderness
Id. its present culture and civilization.
cof Perhaps, from words dropped by
something over Two ulODtns ago,
Is Is wish was to have gone in May-for
oi mother died in May but the time
ea her departure could not have been
''t from her desire, for it was in mid-su
'e, mer, while the face of nature v
ch wreathed in its freshest, bright
smiles, and when the wild roses
own wild roses that she loved so "
and that welcomed her to Mssour
were beautifying with their bloom
are every nook and dell and bosky boul
sb- in the country.
me Her funeral service was conducted
fuI the ID Baptist church by Rev. Gran
me son l.. Black, assisted by Rev. Ben
ia min G.. Tut, on the 2!th inst. and
or its conclusion she was laid to rest
,ns the new cemetery in this city.
NV She is gone, but the memory OF
or good deeds will live and bear rich fl
or during many a year after her
has grimage, for
,Ia Only the ashes Of the just
-, Will Weld perfume--and hloss0m-m the d
at CHOOSING THE LESSER.
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