Greg, I believe that Samuel T. Allen is buried in Houston Co., on Hgwy 149, just after you leave Stewart Co. and enter Houston Co. on the right hand side of the road if you are driving down 149 from Stewart Co. into Houston Co. The site is about 100 feet or less off the highway. There is a home there further back with a gravel/dirt road going past the grave site to the house.There is another family gravesite there too - as I recall it is for the West family. Samuel's gravestone is outside the iron fence for the small family plot of John Hill Thomas (he is my great grandfather), his wife Nancy Louise Allen (she was Samuel's sister) and several of their children., I have seen the gravestone there and somewhere among my things have a photo of it. The stone gives the date of death that you have and says that he was 49 years old when he died. I don't know where his wife, Sarah, is buried. His daughter, Fannie, is buried in the Cumberland City Cemetery next to her husband, William Nath! an Thomas. His gravestone was broken and on ther ground the last time that I saw it. Other information that I have on Samuel: Stewart Co. record book B, page 87, S.T. Allen applied for a liquor license, April 14, 1859. Page 111 of the same book indicates that W.T. Thomas (William Thornton Thomas) was the agent for S.T. Allen's liquor license. Stewart Co. record book XX, page 375 has a Constable Bond for Samuel T. Allen. Last year when I was in Stewart Co. I drove to the cemetery. It was in terrible condition, overgrown with "wild" trees and weeds. Once before when I was there, there was also poison ivy or poison oak around the fence and inside too. Someone else told me there are snakes in the area. I tried to make some arrangements with a cousin last year to have the gravesite cleaned up, but don't think anything was done about it. I am descenced from both the Allen family as well as the Thomas family. How do you fit in? Deanna Oklepek

Can you tell me the relationship of Robert and Nathan Thomas to John Hill Thomas? The 1860 Stewart County census (Cumberland City District) has Nancy age 35 in the household of Nathan Thomas age 49. They were living next to Sam Allen. I believe John Hill was deceased at that time. Could they have been his brothers? My roots go back to Nancy's youngest sister, Sara. ----- Original Message ----- From: <d.oklepek@att.net> To: <TNHOUSTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [TNHOUSTO] Capt. Samuel T. Allen (circa 1830--1878) > Greg, > I believe that Samuel T. Allen is buried in Houston Co., on Hgwy 149, just after you leave Stewart Co. and enter Houston Co. on the right hand side of the road if you are driving down 149 from Stewart Co. into Houston Co. The site is about 100 feet or less off the highway. There is a home there further back with a gravel/dirt road going past the grave site to the house.There is another family gravesite there too - as I recall it is for the West family. Samuel's gravestone is outside the iron fence for the small family plot of John Hill Thomas (he is my great grandfather), his wife Nancy Louise Allen (she was Samuel's sister) and several of their children., I have seen the gravestone there and somewhere among my things have a photo of it. The stone gives the date of death that you have and says that he was 49 years old when he died. I don't know where his wife, Sarah, is buried. His daughter, Fannie, is buried in the Cumberland City Cemetery next to her husband, William Nath! > an Thomas. His gravestone was broken and on ther ground the last time that I saw it. > Other information that I have on Samuel: > Stewart Co. record book B, page 87, S.T. Allen applied for a liquor license, April 14, 1859. > Page 111 of the same book indicates that W.T. Thomas (William Thornton Thomas) was the agent for S.T. Allen's liquor license. > Stewart Co. record book XX, page 375 has a Constable Bond for Samuel T. Allen. > Last year when I was in Stewart Co. I drove to the cemetery. It was in terrible condition, overgrown with "wild" trees and weeds. Once before when I was there, there was also poison ivy or poison oak around the fence and inside too. Someone else told me there are snakes in the area. I tried to make some arrangements with a cousin last year to have the gravesite cleaned up, but don't think anything was done about it. > I am descenced from both the Allen family as well as the Thomas family. How do you fit in? > Deanna Oklepek > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >