David Allen

DAVID ALLEN, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana, in the primitive days of our Commonwealth, there came many families from Virginia and other States, to
occupy some of the fine country of Central Kentucky; among that number were David Allen and Elizabeth Wright, who came when quite young with their
parents. Settling near each other they grew up together, loved each other and were married. Among the children of that marriage was David, whose
name heads this sketch, being born in Bourbon County in the year 1805. He has been three times married; first to Miss Emily Talbott; daughter of
Samuel Talbott, she dying without children. Was married second time to Miss Ellen Berry, daughter of Benjamin Berry; by this wife he has nine
living children, named Joseph, Bushrod, Julia Ann, Sarah, Mary, David, Columbus, Martha and Clara. The second wife dying, he was married the
last time to Mrs. Maria Way; by this union he has no children. He is the owner of 300 acres of good land eight miles from Cynthiana, near Cynthiana
and Leesburg Turnpike, and a member of the Methodist Church at Pleasant Green.

History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 719.
[Harrison County] [Leesburg Precinct]