1.StanleyElmerAllen, born 14 Jan 1904 in Cambridge, Suffolk County, Massachusetts (Source: Massachusetts Vital Records, Volume 543, page 336 .); died 06 Mar 1982 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of 2. JosephElmerAllen and 3. CarrieMaudeBatchelder. He married (1) GertrudeMatildaHitchings 14 Feb 1925 in Hamilton, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was born 01 Aug 1905 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts (Source: Massachusetts Vital Records, Volume 550, page 393.), and died 03 Nov 2001 in Pilgrim Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Peabody, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil.
Notes for Stanley Elmer Allen:
Stanley Elmer Allen was born in Cambridge while his father was working for an uncle's plumbing business. He went to the Essex Falls Elementary School for eight years and began the ninth grade at Hamilton High School. He had to drop out to work and support his sister Lena after her husband's death in the flu epidemic of 1918. Stanley moved to Westborough at age fifteen to work in a leather factory, his sister helped support her three children by playing the player piano for silent movies. Later he returned home to work for the town of Hamilton and for the Charles Tainter estate, and the Palmer estate as a gardener. During WW1 he was asked to dig trenches along the river of the Tainter estate to protect against invading Germans. He began to work for the United Shoe August 7, 1927. Stanley worked for 41 years as a glazier at the United Shoe Manufacturing Company in Beverly, Massachusetts.
1930 US Federal Census, Hamilton, MA enumeration district 5-51, sheet 2A 2 April 1930
Rust Street
Allen, Stanley E., Sr. Head Rented home, $24.50 rent, had a radio, gardner on a farm, age 26,
Gertrude M. wife , age 24
Stanley E. jr son, age 4
Barbara, dau., age 3
Joseph G., son, age 1
1951 Hamilton Town Directory
Allen, Stanley E (Gertrude M) maintenance dept USMC h 10 Roosevelt Ave SH
Notes for Gertrude Matilda Hitchings:
Gertrude was "Nana" to 29 grandchildren. She will always be remembered as an avid knitter, and for her sense of humor. Everyone enjoyed her Saturday night baked beans and her Yankee Pot roast, and she always had enough to feed a small army.
