According to the 1860 census of Mercer Co., PA, your James Allison was born in Pennsylvania. He and family were listed in Clarksville township that year. Judith carol_groover@bellsouth.net wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: ALLISON, BURR, CAMERON > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hZ.2ADIB/1762 > > Message Board Post: > > Looking for James K. Allison, said to be from Richland Co., OH. He would have been born between 1817 - 1821. He married Harriett Angeline G. Burr in Aug. 1850 in Monmouth, Warren Co., Ill. and moved to Clarksville (Warren Co.) PA. He and Harriett had four children, Sarah J., Andrew H., Emma A., and Mary Elizabeth, the last of which was born there in 1861. He joined the 57th PA Volunteer Infantry and was captured at Gettysburg and eventually died in a Richmond, VA Confederate Prison in 1864. Harriett remarried - Roderick Cameron in 1865 and wnt back to Monmouth, IL and then to MO and KS. Any information on James K. Allison (Ellison, Alanson, Allinson, Alason) would be greatly appreciated. -- http://home1.gte.net/judithaw/index.htm