Person

Edward Allen

A farm hand living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Sally Thompson on March 25, 1885, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.

What the sources support

Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Edward Allen, 32, single, a farm hand born in Amherst County, Virginia, and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Sally Thompson on March 25, 1885, at Berryville.

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What the source supports

That Edward Allen, a farm hand living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Sally Thompson in 1885.

Uncertainty

Read from this project's OCR of a scan of Duncan's printed abstract, not from the page image or from the register kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clarke County. Duncan's abbreviations are expanded using her key. The entry marks both him and his wife "(col)", Duncan's abbreviation, which her key defines as "colored". Nothing about Edward Allen beyond this entry is recorded here, and his parents and his wife get no records.

Source

Reference work

Evidence role: supports. Duncan's entry for the marriage.

Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1836-1886 (Heritage Books, 2008)

Patricia B. Duncan · 2008 (publication)

Locator: Page 54, register entry for the marriage of Edward Allen and Sally Thompson

Relevant passage

ALLEN, Edward (col); s/o Josiah & Mary ALLEN; 32y; sgl; farm hand; b. Amherst Co. Va; res. ClrkVA; m. 25 Mar 1885 at Berryville to THOMPSON, Sally (col); d/o James & Laly THOMPSON; 19y; sgl; b. & res. ClrkVA

Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.

Open source

Source family: duncan-clarke-marriages. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-15. How this project checks its sources

Also indexed as: ALLEN, Edward. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.

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