This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ooten (Outen), Allen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oAB.2ACE/2210.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Any chance we have a connection to Elisha Ooten who resided in Cinton Co. Ky in 1860? His son Thomas married California Allen and later relocated to Weakley Co. Tn. Elisha was born in Va. married to a Sarah. Thomas later spelled his name as Outen (or maybe others did).