7/12/17: Find A Grave contributor Judith Lee Howard Shea has made a suggestion: I suggest that the place of burial be changed to "Unknown." Here are my rambling thoughts, result of the last 2 hours of research. You have this Joseph Allen buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA and he died far away from there. And his wife, Sarah Holloway, also. The did not live in Cambridge MA. I was startled to read this, as I used to live in Cambridge, MA and never thought of it as near Cape Cod, or Barnstable, Newport, RI or New Jersey, places where Torrey says Joseph Allen lived during his marriages. As an Allen descendant, I have been investigating the confusions in the Allen family trees and Find-a-Grave memorials. And I have been having a lot of trouble. Just now
I was reading what was written on Sarah Allen's memorial page about why they know she was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. But it doesn't say anything about them living in Cambridge or Boston, or why they would be buried so far from home. Why would people think their families would come all the way up into Cambridge to bury these loved ones just because THEY found the name "Sarah Allen" on a stone? This kind of conjecture with very little to back it up just makes this whole Allen family problem worse.I suggest you remove the place of burial and change it to "unknown" and keep looking in the cemeteries where they DID live. You know, they didn't have trains back in 1675, nor is Cambridge conveniently connected to Mt Auburn Cemetery location by a waterway from Dartmouth, MA. You don't show any of their children living in Cambridge, or buried at Mount Auburn. Sarah's sister isn't. You don't load a corpse onto a horse drawn conveyance and drive it 80-90 miles to be buried in a cemetery that there is no sentimental or family attachment to. Shrewsbury is also a long ways away. New Jersey is even worse. The name Sarah Allen is a very common one. Another solution is to supply clearer proof on the memorial, so people won't be going crazy trying to figure out this puzzle. People from way south in New England being buried in Cambridge, MA? I am perfectly fine with an Unknown burial. People are putting new graves on Find-a-Grave all the time. It's better say you don't know than to take a wild guess, IMHO. (I will be perfectly happy to be proved mistaken, BTW.)
Information provided by: Massachusetts: Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery about Sarah Allen. Surname: Sarah Allen Miscellaneous: See Joseph. Source Information: Legere, Lyn, comp. Massachusetts: Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Information extracted from the cemetery headstones at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex County, Massachusetts by Lyn Legere.
Find A Grave contributor EveyBl has made a suggestion regarding Find A Grave memorial for Sarah Allen. As husband Joseph remarried to Sarah Hull prior to this date of death, I think it's more likely that the date of death is 1673 rather than 1675. The second marriage was recorded on 10 Aug 1673.
I was reading what was written on Sarah Allen's memorial page about why they know she was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. But it doesn't say anything about them living in Cambridge or Boston, or why they would be buried so far from home. Why would people think their families would come all the way up into Cambridge to bury these loved ones just because THEY found the name "Sarah Allen" on a stone? This kind of conjecture with very little to back it up just makes this whole Allen family problem worse.I suggest you remove the place of burial and change it to "unknown" and keep looking in the cemeteries where they DID live. You know, they didn't have trains back in 1675, nor is Cambridge conveniently connected to Mt Auburn Cemetery location by a waterway from Dartmouth, MA. You don't show any of their children living in Cambridge, or buried at Mount Auburn. Sarah's sister isn't. You don't load a corpse onto a horse drawn conveyance and drive it 80-90 miles to be buried in a cemetery that there is no sentimental or family attachment to. Shrewsbury is also a long ways away. New Jersey is even worse. The name Sarah Allen is a very common one. Another solution is to supply clearer proof on the memorial, so people won't be going crazy trying to figure out this puzzle. People from way south in New England being buried in Cambridge, MA? I am perfectly fine with an Unknown burial. People are putting new graves on Find-a-Grave all the time. It's better say you don't know than to take a wild guess, IMHO. (I will be perfectly happy to be proved mistaken, BTW.)
Information provided by: Massachusetts: Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery about Sarah Allen. Surname: Sarah Allen Miscellaneous: See Joseph. Source Information: Legere, Lyn, comp. Massachusetts: Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Information extracted from the cemetery headstones at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex County, Massachusetts by Lyn Legere.
Find A Grave contributor EveyBl has made a suggestion regarding Find A Grave memorial for Sarah Allen. As husband Joseph remarried to Sarah Hull prior to this date of death, I think it's more likely that the date of death is 1673 rather than 1675. The second marriage was recorded on 10 Aug 1673.
7/12/17: Find A Grave contributor Judith Lee Howard Shea has made a suggestion: I suggest that the place of burial be changed to "Unknown." Here are my rambling thoughts, result of the last 2 hours of research. You have this Joseph Allen buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA and he died far away from there. And his wife, Sarah Holloway, also. The did not live in Cambridge MA. I was startled to read this, as I used to live in Cambridge, MA and never thought of it as near Cape Cod, or Barnstable, Newport, RI or New Jersey, places where Torrey says Joseph Allen lived during his marriages. As an Allen descendant, I have been investigating the confusions in the Allen family trees and Find-a-Grave memorials. And I have been having a lot of trouble. Just now
I was reading what was written on Sarah Allen's memorial page about why they know she was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. But it doesn't say anything about them living in Cambridge or Boston, or why they would be buried so far from home. Why would people think their families would come all the way up into Cambridge to bury these loved ones just because THEY found the name "Sarah Allen" on a stone? This kind of conjecture with very little to back it up just makes this whole Allen family problem worse.I suggest you remove the place of burial and change it to "unknown" and keep looking in the cemeteries where they DID live. You know, they didn't have trains back in 1675, nor is Cambridge conveniently connected to Mt Auburn Cemetery location by a waterway from Dartmouth, MA. You don't show any of their children living in Cambridge, or buried at Mount Auburn. Sarah's sister isn't. You don't load a corpse onto a horse drawn conveyance and drive it 80-90 miles to be buried in a cemetery that there is no sentimental or family attachment to. Shrewsbury is also a long ways away. New Jersey is even worse. The name Sarah Allen is a very common one. Another solution is to supply clearer proof on the memorial, so people won't be going crazy trying to figure out this puzzle. People from way south in New England being buried in Cambridge, MA? I am perfectly fine with an Unknown burial. People are putting new graves on Find-a-Grave all the time. It's better say you don't know than to take a wild guess, IMHO. (I will be perfectly happy to be proved mistaken, BTW.)
Information provided by: Massachusetts: Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery about Sarah Allen. Surname: Sarah Allen Miscellaneous: See Joseph. Source Information: Legere, Lyn, comp. Massachusetts: Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Information extracted from the cemetery headstones at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex County, Massachusetts by Lyn Legere.
Find A Grave contributor EveyBl has made a suggestion regarding Find A Grave memorial for Sarah Allen. As husband Joseph remarried to Sarah Hull prior to this date of death, I think it's more likely that the date of death is 1673 rather than 1675. The second marriage was recorded on 10 Aug 1673.
I was reading what was written on Sarah Allen's memorial page about why they know she was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. But it doesn't say anything about them living in Cambridge or Boston, or why they would be buried so far from home. Why would people think their families would come all the way up into Cambridge to bury these loved ones just because THEY found the name "Sarah Allen" on a stone? This kind of conjecture with very little to back it up just makes this whole Allen family problem worse.I suggest you remove the place of burial and change it to "unknown" and keep looking in the cemeteries where they DID live. You know, they didn't have trains back in 1675, nor is Cambridge conveniently connected to Mt Auburn Cemetery location by a waterway from Dartmouth, MA. You don't show any of their children living in Cambridge, or buried at Mount Auburn. Sarah's sister isn't. You don't load a corpse onto a horse drawn conveyance and drive it 80-90 miles to be buried in a cemetery that there is no sentimental or family attachment to. Shrewsbury is also a long ways away. New Jersey is even worse. The name Sarah Allen is a very common one. Another solution is to supply clearer proof on the memorial, so people won't be going crazy trying to figure out this puzzle. People from way south in New England being buried in Cambridge, MA? I am perfectly fine with an Unknown burial. People are putting new graves on Find-a-Grave all the time. It's better say you don't know than to take a wild guess, IMHO. (I will be perfectly happy to be proved mistaken, BTW.)
Information provided by: Massachusetts: Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery about Sarah Allen. Surname: Sarah Allen Miscellaneous: See Joseph. Source Information: Legere, Lyn, comp. Massachusetts: Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Information extracted from the cemetery headstones at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex County, Massachusetts by Lyn Legere.
Find A Grave contributor EveyBl has made a suggestion regarding Find A Grave memorial for Sarah Allen. As husband Joseph remarried to Sarah Hull prior to this date of death, I think it's more likely that the date of death is 1673 rather than 1675. The second marriage was recorded on 10 Aug 1673.
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