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Moses Allender

Male 1834 - 1908  (74 years)


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  • Name Moses Allender  [1] 
    Born 21 Jun 1834  Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 1845  Ziegel's Church (Weisenberg Twp., Lehigh, Pennsylvania) Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Occupation Bodyguard for Pres Lincoln until enlisting; woodworker and cabinet maker Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1850  Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Residence 1860  Allentown Ward 2, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    _MILT Between 1861 and 1865  Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1st Brigade, 209th Regiment, Company C. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1870  Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania; as Moses Allander Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Residence 1880  Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Residence Jun 1890  Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence 1900  Allentown Ward 2, Lehigh, Pennsylvania; widower, living with daughter, Eliza Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Died 6 Oct 1908  South Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Buried St. Mark's Cemetery (Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • 15. Moses Allender, 1834-1908
      Moses Allender, the most colorful of the early members of the family, was born in Allentown on June 21, 1834, the son of Joseph Allender (3) and wife Catharina Freyman, as stated in his obituary and in a history of his wife's family. He was not baptized until he was nine years old.
      About 1851 he married Hannah ____, who was born in 1829/30 according to census records. They had twin children, Theodore and Catharina, born on May 1, 1852. In 1857 Moses Allender married Mary Ann Knauss, born in 1835/6, a daughter of Henry and Hannah Rothrock Knauss. To this union there were born eleven children. The first marriage evidently was not terminated by the death of the wife, as the U.S. Census of 1870 shows Hannah Allender, aged 40, and daughter Catherine, aged 18, living in South Whitehall Twp. The grave of Hannah Allender has not been found.
      Moses Allender was a carpenter by trade. He became a bodyguard of President Lincoln after his first election; and when the Civil War ensued, Moses Allender enlisted in the army. A member of Company C, 209th Regiment, First Brigade of Pennsylvania Volunteers and of the Jordan Artillery Company, he served throughout or almost all the war and was on many battlefields.
      After the end of the war, Moses Allender returned to Allentown and worked in planing mills and a furniture factory, being an expert woodmahine operator. The U.S. Census of 1870 shows him as a planing mill worker living in Allentown with his wife Mary, aged 34, and children Eliza, Agnes, Eugene and Harvey.
      His wife Mary Ann died on May 6, 1891. No tombstone for her has been found, but she probably was buried in St. Mark's Cemetery in Allentown. On Feb. 25, 1892, Moses Allender married Laura E. Desch, daughter of tilghman H. Desch, and was born on Oct. 3, 1870. No children were born to that union, which ended before the death of Moses Allender; since the Allentown city directories for 1900 and 1906 show Moses Allender without a co resident wife and his third wife is not mentioned in his obituary. She later married ____ Shellheimer, died on Aug 26, 1923 and was buried in Hillside Cemetery in Fullerton, Pa.
      Moses Allender died on Oct. 6, 1908 at the home of a daughter in South Allentown after preparing his own obituary. It mentions only his second wife. He was buried in St. Mark's Cemetery. His tombstone gives the dates of his birth and death and his army organization.
      A photograph of Moses Allender shows him to have been of medium height and stocky build. He is said to have been unusually strong and to have had red hair. The latter is not a family characteristic.
      Table II shows the known descendants of Moses Allender. Much of the data concerning his sons and daughters came from a family record in the possession of his granddaughter Mrs. Ervie Sterner. The birth and death of the son Alfred are recorded [in Records of Zion Reformed Church, Allentown, Pa.] as are the births of his first two children [in Records of Jordan Reformed Church, Whitehall Twp.]. The remaining data in Table II [descendants] were accumulated from obituaries, tombstones, marriage licenses and oral information. --Rinkenbach, p. 13-15.
    Person ID I025  Lehigh County Allenders
    Last Modified 26 Apr 2011 

    Father Joseph Allender,   b. 1800, Upper Saucon, Northampton, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1863, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Mother Catharina (Mary) Freyman,   b. Abt 1803, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Feb 1869, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Married 23 Feb 1830  North Whitehall, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F008  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Hannah Unnamed,   b. 1830, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1880, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 51 years) 
    Married Abt 1851 
    Children 
     1. Theodore M Allender,   b. 1 May 1842, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Dec 1922, Binghamton, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)  [Natural]
     2. Catharine (Kate) Anna Allender,   b. 1 May 1852, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Sep 1897  (Age 45 years)  [Natural]
    Family ID F011  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Mary Ann Knauss,   b. 1835, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 May 1891, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Married 1857  Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Alice Allender,   b. 1857, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1862  (Age 5 years)  [Natural]
     2. Alfred Allender,   b. 1859, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1862  (Age 3 years)  [Natural]
     3. Valentine Allender,   b. 1860, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1861  (Age 1 years)  [Natural]
     4. Eliza J Allender,   b. 20 Aug 1862, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Feb 1924  (Age 61 years)  [Natural]
     5. Agnes M Allender,   b. 27 Feb 1865, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Nov 1926  (Age 61 years)  [Natural]
     6. Eugene Allender,   b. 6 Mar 1867, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Feb 1899  (Age 31 years)  [Natural]
     7. Capatilla Allender,   b. 1868, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1869  (Age 1 years)  [Natural]
     8. Harvey Allender,   b. 1869, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1893  (Age 24 years)  [Natural]
     9. Alexander Allender,   b. 1872, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1944  (Age 72 years)  [Natural]
     10. William Allender,   b. 1874, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1874  (Age 0 years)  [Natural]
     11. Robert C Allender,   b. 31 Aug 1876, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jun 1915  (Age 38 years)  [Natural]
    Family ID F026  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Laura E Desch,   b. 3 Oct 1870,   d. 26 Aug 1923  (Age 52 years) 
    Married 26 Feb 1892 
    Family ID F028  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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