This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Allen, Martin, Ray Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2R.2ADE/1005 Message Board Post: GGG-grandfather (maternal)?, John Jackson Allen lived in Clay County AL. ? Mar'd Caroline Martin. Would like any info on him, Civil War service, father & mother (where from) , etc. Believe he had 8 children including my GG-grandfather Chesley Burton Allen b. 1862. County records lost in Courthouse fire in 1877?