I'm a little mixed up on the Allens. Hope I don't mess this up. "My" Allen--really my husband's gggrandfather--I'll call him Allen1, was born in 1824 in NC and died in 1882 in Meigs Co TN. He married Matilda McKeehan in 1842 and was still married to her when he died. She died in 1899. They are buried in the Perry Cemetery in Meigs County. Allen1 had a brother named Noah Perry, born 1828 in McMinn Co TN. He married Jane Mavity in 1847. Noah and Jane had six children: Susannah, b 1847; Andrew Jackson, b 1849; Allen, b 1853; James F b 1859; Sarah b 1864; Asa b 1871. Noah died in 1874 from sickness he contracted during the Civil War, according to his wife Jane's pension application. Noah's son Allen, the third child of Noah and Jane, I'll call him Allen 2, was married to Mary Caywood (Kaywood?) in 1870. He later married Mahala Maynar in 1878. I got that little bit of information from the censuses and Meigs Co marriage records, but I don't have any other information about Allen2, and haven't heard anything from any of his descendants. A long time ago, I noticed there was an Ancestry.com entry that got the two Allens all mixed up. I contacted the fellow who had entered it, and he said he knew he'd got it wrong, but he didn't know how to correct it. I hope he figured it out, and got it corrected, but if he didn't, the false information is still out there floating around, I'm afraid. If you got some of your info from this part of Ancestry.com, you might want to check the birth dates again. Some of Noah's other descendants have done quite a lot of research on the family. I'd suggest you might like to contact Flora Newby. I don't have her addy now, but she is the manager of the Perry mailing list. Maybe I can send your name on the list and see if she can contact you. I checked to see if there is a genealogy forum for either Caywood or Kaywood, and found there is one for each of them! http://genforum.genealogy.com/kaywood/ doesn't have very much on it, but http://genforum.genealogy.com/caywood/ seemed to have several people sharing information. Hope this helps. Joy Perry