After a long period of illness, Mrs. Mary Jane Allen, 89 years old, familiarly known as Grandma Allen, died at the home of her son, Edgar Allen, in the Groomsville community ... Sunday morning [1 Oct 1922]. The funeral will take place on Wednesday ... at the late home ... the interment being at the Jackson [cemetery near Sharpsville], the husband being interred there. Mrs. Allen, whose maiden name was Tyner, was the daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth [Wolf] Tyner, and was born in Rush county, April 16, 1833. Her father was a native of [Franklin county*] and her mother of [Scott county,] Kentucky. ... the father [died] here in 1880 and the mother in 1901. Mrs. Allen was married to William J. Allen in Marion county in January 1853, and they moved to Tipton county ten years later ... and settled in the Groomsville vicinity. She has lived on the farm where her death took place for 59 years, her son, Edgar Allen, occupying the farm with her. The husband died in 1896. Only two children were born to their union. A daughter, Mrs. Maggie Mitchell, died in 1890 in Shelby county. Mrs. Allen attended ... the Bethel church ...Submitted by Don T. Mitchell Notes: (1) Her parents first lived in Fayette Co., Indiana, where they married in 1832, then in Warren Twp., Marion Co., and finally moved to Tipton Co. (2) The daughter was Elizabeth Margaret 'Maggie Allen (1853-1890), wife of William Alexander Mitchell (1852-1924), who died at Waldron, Shelby Co., Indiana.