Notes for: Serena ___
1870 Census, Ohio County, WV (City of Wheeling, 4th Ward), enumerated on July 18 1870:
Geo. Allen, 30, b. Md. (both parents of foreign birth), machinist; Serena (or Susan ?), 29, b. Va; Charles H, 10, b. Va; Mary, 8, b. Va; James, 1, b. WVa.
The next enumerated household was that of Margaret Allen, 74, b. Ireland.
NOTE: The birth records of daughter Mary I. Allen (born in Wheeling in November 1863) and son James Albert Allen (born in Wheeling on May 26 1869) clearly identify their parents as George Allen (occupation machinist) and Serena.