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Octa Belle Allen
1874 - 1950 (~ 75 years)
Generation: 1
1. Octa Belle Allen was born in Jun 1874 in Almond, Allegany County, New York; died on 10 Feb 1950 in Ovid, Seneca County, New York; was buried in Willard Asylum Cemetery, Willard, Seneca County, New York. Notes:
Octa was living in Almond with her brother Orlow in 1900 and with her father and nephew, Miles, in 1910 in Alfred. She was said to have been hit over the head with an Iron Skillet, by her mother when she was young.
At least from 1920 to her death she was a patient("inmate") and worked at the Willard State Hospital in Seneca County, New York. (Census records of 1920, 1925, 1930, and 1940 she is an inmate there)