Hannah ALLUM

  General Notes:

Photo: This is the original gravestone for Hannah (Allum) Parson, 1827-1852, interred in the Allum Cemetery on the property of her father, Charles W. Allum, in Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. In 1981, Hannah's grave and stone were moved from the Allum Cemetery to Enon Cemetery, also in Richhill Township. She died at only 25 years.
Credit: Greene County, Pennsylvania Cemeteries CD No. 3 by James Fordyce, 2002


1827 BIRTH of Hannah Allum

(In 1827 slavery was officially abolished in the State of New York and 10,000 slaves were freed. The Louisiana legislature approved a $10,000 gift for the family of Thomas Jefferson, who died in debt. The first sawmill in the Pacific Northwest Territory opened five miles outside of Fort Vancouver. In Michigan Territory, an Indian uprising occurred in opposition to lead miners intruding into tribal lands in the Galena area [later in Illinois]. Sam Houston was elected Governor of Tennessee. In Massachusetts, Edgar Allen Poe's first book of poetry was published in Boston; in Salem, Joseph Dixon opened the first lead pencil factory. New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras.)

1830 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (with parents)

10 people are in the household in 1830:

1 male 30-40 (father Charles, born 1796)
2 males 10-15 (sons William and Thomas, born 1817 and 1818)
2 males 5-10 (sons John and James, born 1820 and 1822)
1 male under 5 (son Isaac, born 1828)
1 female 30-40 (mother Jemima, born 1795)
1 female 5-10 (daughter Delila, born 1823)
2 females under 5 (daughters Peninah and Hannah, born 1825 and 1827)

1840 DEATH of grandfather William Allum

1840 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (with parents)

11 people are in the household in 1840:

1 male 40-50 (father Charles)
1 male 20-30 (son John) (sons William, born 1817, and Thomas, born 1818, are documented in their own households in Richhill Township in 1840)
1 male 15-20 (son James "Jimmy," born 1822)
1 male 10-15 (son Isaac, born 1828)
1 male under 5 (son Porter, born 1840)
1 female 40-50 (mother Jemima, born 1795)
2 females 15-20 (daughters Delila, born 1823, and Peninah, born 1825)
1 female 10-15 (daughter Hannah, born 1827)
2 females under 5 (Should the census category have really been "2 females 5-10"? If so, they would have been daughters Pamelia and Eliza)

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (with mother Jemima)

1850s MARRIAGE of Hannah Allum and Charles Parson

1852 DEATH of Hannah Allum Parson at 25 years 5 months 9 days

(The first of Charles and Jemima Allum's children to pass on, Hannah died seven years before her mother and sixteen years before her father. Less than one month after her death in 1852, Franklin Pierce was elected to succeed Millard Fillmore as President. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, by anti-slavery novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, sold 300,000 copies. In Texas, Richard King established the largest ranch in the state. In Utah, the Mormons announced polygamy as part of their faith. In New Hampshire, Yale and Harvard held its first rowing meet. Daniel Webster died in Massachusetts, four months after the death of his rival, Henry Clay. Also in Massachusetts, brown paper bags were machine-produced for shoppers who no longer had to haul purchases home in baskets. Before her death, 'think young Hannah heard the 1851 hit "Swanee River" by Stephen Foster? 'Knew that Isaac Merritt Singer had a patent for a sewing machine? 'Heard about, or read, Herman Melville's MOBY DICK?)

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1859 DEATH of mother, Jemima (Barnhart) Allum

1860 CENSUS, Virginia, Marshall County, Rock Lick (A Charles C. Parson [born in Pennsylvania], age 31, "Sawyer," is documented married to Margaret,
age 26; no children)

1868 DEATH of father, Charles W. Allum

1870 CENSUS, West Virginia, Marshall County, Cameron Township ("Chas.", age 41, "Butcher," and Margaret, age 36; no children)




INSCRIPTION on gravestone, originally at Allum Cemetery, removed to Enon Cemetery in 1981:

HANNAH
WIFE OF CHARLES PARSON
AND DAUGH. OF
C. & J. ALLUM
DIED
OCT. 22, 1852
AGED
25 YRS. 5 MS. & 9 D.

Dearest sister, thou (l)ast left us
Left a world of pain and care.
Gone to heaven to be an angel,
And a crown of glory wear.

Hannah married Charles PARSON, son of Vincent PARSON Jr. and Alice PARSON, in 1850-1852 in Greene County, Pennsylvania (Probably). (Charles PARSON was born about 1829 in Washington County, Pennsylvania.)