Miss Morse was married to William F. Allen, a marketman, on October 26, 1881 at he hometown of Gardner. Rev. W. D. Herrick officiated.
In the 1900 U.S. census the family resided at 131 School Street where they rented. Today this area is parking for the 205 School Street complex formerly known as the Simplex Time Recorder Company. Carrie's husband was a provisions dealer. They had three children: Mary, 17, Emma, 15, and Windsor, 9.
By 1910 the Allens owned the home where they lived. William F. Allen had become a chairmaker. Mary was a bank clerk and Emma was bookkeeper at an office.
Mrs. Allen was widowed in 1915. She and her three children remained at the home they knew so well. Her daughter Mary was still at the bank. The other two children both worked at a silver factory. Emma was a bookkeeper and Winsdor was a shipping clerk.
Her only son, Windsor, married in 1920. He and his bride, Ruth, moved just a jog down the road to 60 School Street where they had purchased a home. Their daughters, Marguerite and Louise, most likely visited their grandmother very often due to them being neighbors. Windsor was employed as the treasurer at a silver factory.
Mary and Emma Allen did not marry and they would stay at the family home long after their mother had died.
Emma M Allen
BIRTH Aug 1884
Massachusetts, USA
DEATH 1955 (aged 70–71)
BURIAL
Crystal Lake Cemetery
Gardner, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
PLOT 169
MEMORIAL ID 117077982 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 1
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Miss Emma Allen, along with her sister, resided at the School Street family home where they grew up and possibly the rest of her life. She began bookkeeping by the 1910 census which simply stated that she worked at an office. In '20 she continued that work at a silversmith's shop. In '30 and '40 she worked for an electric light public utility as a bookkeeper.