Levi Elsley ALLEN

1894 - 1959  (64 years)

• Name	Levi Elsley ALLEN
  Birth	24 Mar 1894	in Iron Bridge, Gladstone Twp, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Military Service	25 Jan 1918	Toronto
  	Enlisted
  	Single; Farmer
  Military Service	4 Jul 1919	Toronto, ON Canada
  	Discharged - Demobilization
  _PPEXCLUDE	D
  _UID	DEB741EC2F7647BF9126E8BF39D5A277F2C1
  Death	2 Jan 1959	Sault Ste Marie, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada
  Burial	Greenwood Cemetery, Sault Ste Marie, ON Canada
  Person ID	I473	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	3 May 2021

  
  

  Father	William ALLEN,   b. 28 Mar 1838, Parish of Ballysadare, Co Sligo, Ireland d. 21 Feb 1911, Iron Bridge, Aigoma District, Ontario, Canada (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Rebecca Jane /ROTHWELL RATHWELL,   b. 17 Feb 1850, Montague Twp, Lanark County, ON Canada d. 25 Oct 1923, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	28 Jan 1868	Wellington County, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F895	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Elizabeth WEARING,   b. 26 Sep 1892, Mile End Old Town, London, England d. 7 Dec 1944, Sault Ste Marie, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	6 Nov 1934	Sault Ste Marie, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada
  Children	1. Terrence Nelson ALLEN,   b. 29 Oct 1928, Sault Ste Marie, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada d. 27 Dec 2010, Green Bay, Bay County, Wisconsin, USA (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F185	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2016

  
  

• Photos		Jane Elizabeth (Wearing/Nailor) and Levi Elsley Allen Wedding Photo - from Gardiner/Allen Scrapbook
  		Levi Elsley Allen In WW1 Uniform

  
  

• Notes

  WW1 Service - #3231519; 2nd Depot Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment; Military Service Act 870739. Enlisted 25 Jan 1918; Discharged 4 Jul 1919 demobilization. Per Mary (McLean) Allen - Elsley spent most of young life trapping. He joined the army - in the Infantry. He went overseas and was wounded in France in 1918 in a battle accident. The solder opposite Elsley in the slit trench was cleaning his revolver and it went off and hit Elsley in the elbow. Elsley was sent home and discharged. While he was in France, he received $1.00/day regular away pay and 10 cents extra for active duty. (Harvey Allen has the army pay book - 1993.) After coming home, Elsley went to Hearst trapping and cutting pulpwood in the same area as Cyrus Allen, Russell Beemer and Jack Humphries until the big fire that almost killed Cyrus and his family. Elsley returned to Sault Ste Marie and worked on the Sault Locks, becoming the man who swung the gates to let the boats through for 35 years. He retired Dec 1, 1958 and died Jan 3, 1959.