Ira Allen, 1824, and Julia Powell Allen, 1826
              
                                   Ira Allen was born February 19, 1824 in Willsboro, New York, the son of Andrew and Eunice Allen. The Allen family moved to
                                   Parma, Ohio and Ira probably accompanied them, because he married Julia Powell in Cuyahoga County, Ohio in 1846. Julia was
                                   born in Columbia, Lorain, Ohio in 1826. They remained in northeast Ohio after Ira's parents moved west to Iowa. Ira and Julia
                                   had nine children together: John Powell Allen, 1849, William Allen, 1850, Albert Allen, 1852, Lafitte Allen, 1854, Charles Allen,
                                   1856, Caroline Allen, 1857, Fred B Allen, 1858, George Allen, 1862, and Mary Allen, 1872. Ira Allen was a second lieutenant in
                                   the Union Army during the Civil War, enlisted in 1864, and mustered out in 1865. Ira died in Columbia, Ohio in 1906 at the age
                                   of 82. Julia died years earlier in 1892.