Frank Allinger's first wife was Alice Hedrick (1868-1897), the mother of four sons, Van Jacob-1887, Leslie-1890, Frank Herbert-1893, and Philip Eugene-1897. Alice died four days after the birth of Philip in Raton, New Mexico Territory, and her burial whereabouts are unknown. Her father was buried in Meriden, Jefferson, Kansas, where she and Frank also lived and her second son Leslie was born prior to the family moving on to Topeka, Kansas and then on to Raton, New Mexico. Frank first worked in Russell, Kansas where he met and married Alice Hedrick and they had Van,their first child. Frank probably also worked at Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas where the 3rd son Frank was born. Was Alice buried at Raton, Russell, Meriden, or even Topeka?

Frank's second wife bore him a daughter, Lu Etta (ALLINGER) Holt Sorensen (1901-1955). Lu Etta was the mother of Emmett J. Holt (1917-1996).

Frank and Alice's oldest three (3) sons were with Frank and second wife Leotta (GREGORY) Allinger during the 1900 Census taking at Raton, New Mexico Territory, but likely moved on to their Allinger grandparents at Russell, Kansas when Leotta was pregnant with Lu Etta. Frank and Leslie were with the grandparents for the 1905 Kansas Census. Van was not found in that 1905 census. The grandparents moved to the Pacific Northwest in the fall of 1905, and the three grandsons were off on their own at that time - Van, age 18, Leslie, age 15 and Frank age 12.

Philip, Frank and Alice's youngest son, was raised by Alice's mother, "Maggie" (SNELL) Hedrick, a widow with young children of her own. In 1900 she was in Colorado Springs, Colorado and in 1910 in Los Angeles, California. She passed away in 1917.

Frank A. Allinger, 1863-1937, was a steam engine machinist and foreman for the Union Pacific Railroad. He was retired at the time of the 1930 census. Frank died at White Memorial Hospital, Los Angeles, California in 1937, from complications related to diabetes.