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Benjamin Howell Allen was born February 10, 1838 in Montgomery County, North Carolina, and died March 12, 1901 in Arkansas. Son of William Allen and Nancy Crump. He married Elizabeth Howell in 1869 in Pope County, Arkansas, daughter of Jesse Howell and Adalissa Hardaway. She was born in July of 1847 in Hardin County, Arkansas, and died about 1875 in Pope County, Arkansas. He married Eugenia A. Randle September 14, 1877, daughter of William and Mary Randle. She was born May 12, 1851 in Stanley County, North Carolina.

Children of Benjamin and Elizabeth:
i. Minnie Allen was born February 1870 in Pope County, Arkansas, and died 1918.
ii. Bettie Allen was born 1874.

Children of Benjamin and Eugenia A. Randle:
i. J. Bennie Allen was born September 1878 in Arkansas.
ii. William Randel Allen was born July 1885 in Arkansas.
iii. Samuel P. Allen was born August 1887 in Arkansas.
iv. Eugenia Loy Allen was born September 1890 in Arkansas.

Benjamin H. Allen appears in Pope County Those Who Served®