The biography you've read about Clay Allison is INCORRECT as to his parents! They were, actually, Jeremiah Scotland and Mariah R. Brown Allison....the line comes from NORTH Carolina, not South Carolina! Don't think your line connects with Clay's at all.... Contact Tom Evans in Minnesota, whose line is parallel to Clay's through brothers Robert J. and William Allison, for the complete Clay Allison family tree. OoliticIN@aol.com Sharon Cunningham, author "An Allison Family Visit" WOLA Journal, Winter 2003/Spring 2004 Back issues available at: Len Gratteri, WOLA Treas. P.O. Box 70 Hillsboro OR 97123