Presented by Ellen Hoover

Allen's great-great-grandmother was a sister of Daniel DeFoe, who wrote Robinson Crusoe. Allen's son T. B. owned a shop on Dayton Street and was once Yellow Springs' postmaster. Allen's son Emmett enlisted in the Civil War at age fourteen an died a prisoner in Salisbury, North Carolina. Lydia was Allen's second wife and he her second husband. They both had children from these previous marriages. Allen's son T. B. and Lydia's daughter Mary married each other, making their parents their in-laws and cheating their children out of one set of grandparents.