Allen, Dorothea Teulon

Other Events:

• Graduation: 1924, Radcliffe, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Notes:

Dorothea Teulon Allen was born March 1, 1901, in New York City, the
oldest child of Joseph and Annie Winsor Allen. Most of her childhood was
spent in White Plains, New York. Her parents ran a tutorial school at
Seal Harbor, Maine, during the summers, and it was there that she most
fully enjoyed her childhood. Seal Harbor was shere her deepest sense of
home remained all her life.
A 1924 graduate of Radcliffe Collere, Dorothea taught English for
five years at Hampton Institute in Virginia, a private high school for
Black students. There she met Clay Treadway, whom she married in 1930.
She them became a full time housewife and mother to their four children.
Raised a Unitarian, Dorothea joined the Society of Friends after her
marriage, and was an active member as long as her health permitted. She
and Clay were founding members of the Des Moines Valley Monthly Meeting.
She was a lover of good music, good literature, and Nature in its
tamer forms. In politics and religion she espoused traditional Liberal
views. She did not change her opinions when they went out of fashion.
She talked of her hopes for progress toward world peace and the need for
world government in her last conversations with her family.
Dorothea had four children, thirteen grandchildren, and six
great-grandchildren. Her children are Allen of Tecumseh, Missouri, Ann
of Wayland, Massachusetts, Roy of Normal, Illinois, and Ray of
Greensboro, North Carolina.

Dorothea married Treadway, Clay Augustus Calvin on 10 Jun 1930 in White Plains, Westchester, New York, USA. Clay (son of Treadway, Elijah Frank and Bodenhamer, Anna Myrtle) was born on 14 Apr 1898 in Stark, Neosho County, Kansas; died on 19 Mar 1987 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Nov 2003, Xenia, Greene, Ohio, USA

Notes:

This poem was written by Allen for his wife:

To Carolyn

It's been thirty-something years that we've
Been walking two by two, as the good sage
Of Grovers Corners says we're meant. Not always
Hand in hand, but never back to back,
And not two only. Five kids, five dogs, cats,
Rats, and one green lizard stayed awhile.

"Illegitimi non carbornundum"
Not a bad motto when daily life grinds on
The spirit. You kept our lives on course,
Kept ideals in view -- what we were living for.

Five children grown and gone, just visits now,
Jut Pip, best of dogs, to share our days.
Too quiet? Not likely here at East Wind!
That same good Center that kept our home together
Helps here, too.

Today a youngish woman called you beautiful.
She's right, of course, though I don't say it much.
Her beauty, being young, is mostly genes
And eathing right, a gift of those who raised her.
Yours comes from within.

Friend, lover, partner of my life,
I am so very thankful for that bright
June day we said our vows at Coal Creek,
And thankful we both meant them.