The Allen family headed by my Grandfather Stephen Allen - married a Pennsylvania Dutch girl named Rebekah Webb. They had 14 children one little boy dying in infancy. They raised a family of thirteen - ten girls and three boys. The Girls: Lucinda (my mother born in 1823), Melissa, Minervah, Moriah, Rachel, Fanny, Nancy, Louvisa & Mary. The Boys: Reuben, Calvin & Joseph. Something odd about these two families (Allen and Barbee). Each had 14 children. Each lost one little one. One had 10 boys and 4 girls, the other had 10 girls and 4 boys. Each family had sons named Calvin & Joseph and each had girls named Rachel & Louisa, and four married into the other family and four of the Allen girls marries four brothers named Brooks: Minervah, Rachel, Fanny & Louisa - but I do not remember the names of the Brooks brothers.