Pamelia ALLUM

  General Notes:

Document: After the death of her husband Richard Sargent in 1888, his second wife, Laura (Lindley) Sargent, applied for a widow's pension based upon her deceased husband's Civil War service. In this partial page from Sargent's pension file, second wife Laura states, "Claimant was never married before. Her husband was married before. His first wife [ ' that would be Pamelia ' ] ran off and was married to another man."
From DeeAnna Allum Granston



Shirley Allum Hudlicky:

"On her application for a widow's pension, Laura Lindley Sergeant stated that her husband was married before. ' His first wife ran off and was married to another man before her first husband was discharged from the war. '

"Laura's pension claim was rejected because Richard failed to get a divorce from his first wife. (Military pension number 472-840, Wash Co. marriage docket No. 1, p 75, #149.) Witness to widow's declaration for pension November 30, 1890: Cephas Lindley and J. S. Baldwin.

"Richard was taken to ' Govt. insane asylum Oct 25, 1862 and Oct 31, 1862 and was discharged March 10, 1863 at Wash. D. C. on grounds of insanity by order of Sec of War. '



1832 BIRTH of Pamelia Allum ("Amelia," "Milly" or "Millie," and "Peggy") (plus "Emily" in the 1870 census)

Pamelia may have been named for a younger sister of her mother.

(Andrew Jackson was 7th President in 1832 serving the first of two consecutive terms. In New England the Anti-Slavery Society was formed. South Carolina threatened to secede. Opposed to breaking up the Union, near the end of '32 Jackson wrote, "Can anyone of common sense believe the absurdity that a state has a right to secede and destroy this union and the liberty of our country with it, or nullify the laws of the union; then is our Constitution a rope of sand; under such I would not live." With advances in agriculture and industry slaves, in fact, increased in demand and value. In Michigan Territory, Chief Black Hawk was defeated at the Battle of Bad Axe. Artist George Catlin created sensational illustrations of Indian life along the Mississippi during a 2,000-mile voyage when he befriended Sioux and Mandan tribes. In New York City, more than 4,000 died of a cholera epidemic.)

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)

1848 MARRIAGE (approximate) of Pamelia Allum and Richard Sargent; they were first cousins through their mothers, Jemima (Barnhart) Allum and Margaret (Barnhart) Sargent

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (September 9) ("Amelia," age 19, is in the household of her father Charles Allum, along with her younger siblings, Eliza, age 16, and Porter, age 10. Also in the household is Margaret Sargent, age 51. [Margaret's maiden name was Barnhart, and she was the elder sister of Charles' estranged wife, Jemima Barnhart Allum]. She was also Pamelia-"Amelia's" mother-in-law. Where was Margaret's son - Pamelia's husband, Richard Sargent, in 1850?

Linda Kelley Schlater, August 11, 2006 e-mail:

"I think I found Richard as ' Richard Sergent ' (age 23, born PA) in the 1850 census. He is in Ohio County, Virginia, page 39, line 40, boarding with a Dunlop family. He is a laborer on a page with many other laborers. Perhaps he found work on construction? Ohio County, Virginia, is the same as Ohio County, West Virginia--it did not become West Virginia until the Civil War."

1859 DEATH of mother, Jemima (Barnhart) Allum

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township, P. O. Harvey's (June 6) ("Richard," age 34, "Tenant farmer") (wife "Amelia," age 28) ("Sargent" in census)

1862-1863 MILITARY SERVICE for Richard Sargent, Civil War, Company A, 140th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

1860s MARRIAGE of Pamelia (Allum) Sargent and Martin Van Buren Elliott

1868 DEATH of father, Charles W. Allum

1868 BENEFICIARY in will of father, Charles W. Allum

1870 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Springhill Township, P. O. Rogersville (July 7) (a Martin M. "Elliot," age 26, "Farmer," with wife "Emily," age 34, daughters "Susan L. E.," age 4, and "Sarah," age 1)

1880 CENSUS, West Virginia, Wetzel County, Littleton (July 10) ("Van" Elliot, age 36, "Laborer," wife "Amelia," age 45, daughters "Ella," 13, and "Sarah," 10)

1886 MARRIAGE of ex-husband, Richard Sargent, to Laura E. Lindley by Henry M. Keeny, J.P. at home of bride's parents in Washington County, PA

1888 DEATH of ex-husband, Richard Sargent, on March 21 or March 30 at approximately 64 years (Grover Cleveland was President)

1890 VETERANS SCHEDULE (Civil War), Pennsylvania, Greene County, Springhill Township ("Martin V. Elliott," "Private, Company D, W Va. Cav., September 22, 1862 - July 15, 1865," length of service, "2 years 9 months 13 days"

1894 DEATH, Pamelia (Allum) (Sargent) Elliott, at 62 years 0 months 13 days (based upon April 26, 1894 date of death) (see below)

Cause of death: "Paralysis (two weeks duration)" --Greene County, Pennsylvania Death Records

According to CEMETERY RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, Volume 6, Jackson and Springhill Towships, 1976, by Dorothy T. Hennen, Pamelia is buried as "Amealie" Elliott in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Springhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania and died "4-5-1894." Greene County, Pennsylvania Death Records, however, document her death as April 26, 1894 and her date of burial as April 27.

(In 1894 in Pennsylvania, where Pamelia had lived, coal miners went on strike to protest falling wages and mine accidents. In Illinois, Pullman rail workers went on strike, and the U. S. Cavalry escorted trains from Chicago. Also in Chicago, fire destroyed most of the buildings in the World Columbian exposition. In New York City, 12,000 tailors went on strike to protest sweatshops. Cream of Wheat became one of the country's first breakfast cereals. In Lancaster, PA Milton Hershey declared "caramels are only a fad, chocolate is a permanent thing," and the Hershey Milk Chocolate Bar was born. Mark Twain published PUDD'NHEAD WILSON. President Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday to be celebrated the first Monday in September.)

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1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Springhill Township (June 9 & 11) ("Vanburen" Elliott--age, month and year of birth not provided--, "Day Laborer," married for 6 years to "Sarah," age 31, born in "April, 1869," with two daughters, "Mahalia," age 5, born in "May, 1895 in Pennsylvania," and "Jessie," age 2, born in "March, 1898 in West Virginia") (Sarah is documented as the mother of 4 children, 4 children living in the year 1900; she and "Vanburen" had been married 6 years)

1910 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Springhill Township (April 27) ("Martin Van Buson Elliot," "age 65, Laborer," with wife "Sarah A.," age 44, daughters "Mahalia," 14; "Jessie," 12; "Alice," 9; and son "James," 7) (Sarah is shown as the mother of 5 children, 4 children living in the year 1910; she and Martin had been married 14 years)

1915 DEATH of second husband, Martin Van Buren Elliott, at approximately 63 years (Woodrow Wilson was President)


"Sargent" is also found spelled "Sargant," "Sargeant," and "Sergeant," even differing on gravestones for immediate family members



MILITARY SERVICE (1st husband Richard Sargent): Civil War, Company A, 140th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, August 18, 1862 to March 20, 1863. Richard's military papers reveal that his wife (Pamelia) had "run off with another man."

MILITARY PENSION RECORD (Richard): No. 472840

BURIAL (Richard): Bethel Presbyterian Cemetery, Washington County, Pennsylvania: "Died March 21, 1888 in his '64th year' "

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MILITARY SERVICE (2nd husband Martin Van Buren Elliott): Civil War, Company D, 1st West Virginia Cavalry

BURIAL (Martin and Pamelia): Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Pleasant Hill Church, Springhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania

BOOK: CEMETERY RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, Volume 6, Freeport, Jackson and Springhill Townships by Dorothy T. Hennen, 1976, documents the following at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Springhill Township:

Elliott, James William, 1902-1927

Elliott, Amealie, wife of M. V., died April 5, 1894, aged 62 years 11 months 23 days (Pamelia Allum Elliott)

Elliott, M.V.B., 1915 - Pvt. Co. D, 1st W.VA.Cav., Civil War" (Martin Van Buren Elliott)

Also at Pleasant Hill Cemetery are Martin Van Buren Elliott's elder brother, George Elliott ca-1837-1864, and his wife, Octavia (Sargent) Elliott, 1839-1895

Pamelia married Richard SARGENT, son of Henry SARGENT and Margaret BARNHART, about 1848. (Richard SARGENT was born on January 17, 1825 in Pennsylvania, died on March 31, 1888 in Washington County, Pennsylvania and was buried in Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery, Washington County, Pennsylvania.)

Pamelia next married Martin Van Buren ELLIOTT, son of Martin ELLIOTT and Susan ELLIOTT, before 1866. (Martin Van Buren ELLIOTT was born in 1844 in Pennsylvania, died in 1915 in Greene County, Pennsylvania and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Springhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.)