Not a thing. Did you get the one on Moses Allen, too? And do you want the information on the other ALLENs? Ann -----Original Message----- From: DeWayne Wallace <dewayne@apex2000.net> To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [TXBELL-L] SOBCT: ALLEN, Elisha; Page 284 |MaryAnn; | |My address is 617 North Avenue B, Kermit, TX 79745. Thank you for the |information and the pictures. Please let me know how much I need to |reimburse you for the pictures and postage. | |DeWayne |-----Original Message----- |From: MaryAnn Bartlett <bartlett@vvm.com> |To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> |Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 7:12 AM |Subject: [TXBELL-L] SOBCT: ALLEN, Elisha; Page 284 | | |>Pg. 284 |><Picture just above "Elisha Allen": "William Edward and Mary Melvin |Allen |>Laughlin. Mrs. Laughlin was the daughter of Elisha Allen."> |> |>Elisha Allen, a veteran and colonist in the Republic of Texas, was |born in |>St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, on December 16, 1813, to William and |Hannah |>Pride Allen. In 1827 William Allen moved his family to Texas and |settled on |>Cow Bayou, near Sabine Bay, in what is now Orange County. |> |>When the Texas Revolution began in 1835, Elisha Allen volunteered his |>services from November 18, 1835 to January 2, 1836. From December |5 - 9, |>1835, he participated in the Siege of Bexasr, which was led by |Benjamin Rush |>Milam and Francis W. Johnson, who with about 300 troops, attacked San |>Antonio de Bexar then held by the Mexican Army of 1200 men under |Martin |>Perfecto de Cos. When Elisha was discharged he returned home to |Orange |>County and worked for his brother-in-law, George A. Pattillo, who |owned the |>only mill in that part of the Republic. For his military service he |>received bounty and donation land grants from the State of Texas in |1858. |> |>In 1849 Elisha Allen married Margaret Wood, a daughter of William and |Sallie |>Frazier Wood. She was born in Mississippi on October 28, 1830, and |came to |>Texas in 1840 or 1841. The Allens were probably married in Jefferson |>County, because the 1850 Census shows them living there where he was |a |>shoemaker. |> |>In the early 1850s the Allens were among the first pioneers to settle |in |>Williamson County where he engaged in farming and raising stock. |They |>remained there until the early 1870s when he moved to a farm |purchased |>from his brother, Moses Allen, on Indian Creek in Bell County. At |this time |>the land was undeveloped and only two or three families lived between |there |>and Belton. His home became a landmark in this section. The heavy |>materials and doors of this house were made of cedar hauled overland |by ox |>wagons from Jefferson, Texas, a distance of over 200 miles. He built |the |>first neighborhood church and school house in his pasture and the |little |>church was presided over in later years by Rev. J.M. Robinson. The |first |>teacher of the school was Susan Roberson, who later married a son of |the |>donor of the building. The student body of this school was made up |of |>Allens, Gillilands and Stocktons. |> |>Elisha Allen died on March 6, 1893, and his wife, Margaret E. Allen |died on |>July 10, 1904. Their graves in the Old Bartlett Cemetery are marked |and |>fenced. Mr. and Mrs. Allen were the parents of seven children: |George A. |>Allen, who married Susan Roberson; Elijah M. Allen, who married |Jennie |>Mitchell; Sarah A. Allen, who married Thomas J. Denson; William B. |Allen, |>who married Nannie Parnell; Mary Melvin Allen, who married William |Edward |>Laughlin; John M. Allen; Samuel O. Allen; and Rachel D. Allen, who |>married J.D. Phillips. |> |>An official Texas Historical Grave Marker honoring Elisha and |Margaret Allen |>was unveiled and dedicated at a program held at their graves in the |Old |>Bartlett Cemetery on May 1, 1977. |> |>Submitted by: Rev. E.F. Allen, Jr. |>====================================== |>Pg. 286 |> |><Picture: "William Gilliland and his wife, the former Rachael E. |Allen. |>She was the daughter of Moses and Nancy Williams Allen." |> |>Moses Allen |> |>Moses Allen, a veteran and colonist in the Republic of Texas, was |born in |>St. Helena Parish, Louisiana on December 14, 1808, to William and |Hannah |>Pride Allen. He moved with his parents to Texas in 1827 and settled |on Cow |>Bayou near Sabine Bay in an area later to become part of Orange |County. By |>1835 Moses Allen was married to Nancy Williams, a native of |Wouisiana. She |>was a daughter of Hezekiah Williams and a sister to Mrs. William |McFaddin. |> |>When the combat for Texas Independence began, Moses All became active |in the |>campaign. His first service in the war was from November 18, 1835, |to |>December 13, 1835. During this period he participated in the Siege |of |>Bexar. His next period of enlistment was from June 6, 1836, to |September 6, |>1836. |> |>The 1840 Census of the Republic of Texas lists the following: Moses |Allen, |>1 Pole, 38 cattle, 1 wood clock, Jerfferson County, Texas. |> |>In recognition of his allegiance to Texas during the struggle for |>independence, he received several grants of land. On January 1, |1842, he |>was awarded a bounty warrant for 320 acres in Tyler County, from the |>secretary of war. On June 5, 1847, he received another grant for 320 |acres |>in Coryell County from the adjutant general for his participation in |the |>Siege of Bexar, where he served as a private in Capt. Martin B. |Lewis' |>Company. The original muster roll for this company is in the texas |State |>Archives, Austin. |> |>When the 1850 Census for the State of Texas was taken Moses Allen, a |farmer |>with real estate valued at $2000, was a resident of Milam County. |His |>household consisted of the following: Moses Allen, 41 years; Nancy |Allen, |>36 years; Emily A. Allen, 14 years; Rachel E. Allen, 12 years; Elisha |W. |>Allen, 10 years; and Marion William, 20 years. |> |>On January 22, 1850, Bell County was created from Milan County by an |act of |>the state legislature. On October 16, 1850, a patent for 640 acres |of land |>was granted to Moses Allen in the new county. He received the |Donation |>Certificate for the land on December 22, 1848, from the adjutant |general for |>his services at the Siege of Bexar. After receiving this land he |became a |>resident of Bell County. The name of Moses Allen appeared on the |first |>official "Jury List" for Bell County, which was made up by the |Commissioners |>Court on February 18, 1851. |> |>The family was listed in the 1860 Census for Bell County. At that |time |>Elisha was the only child still living in the household, and they had |an |>H.M. Lewis, an 18-year-old female guest in the home. |> |>Moses Allen was dead by June 22, 1869, when his heirs sold their |land, which |>was located west of Bartlett on Indian Creek and in the vicinity of |the |>Stockton Family Cemetery, an existing landmark. On this date they |sold 1466 |>acres for $1590.17 in gold to John Q. and Eliza A. Adams. The |sellers of |>the property included William Gilliland, Rachael E. Gilliland, O.C. |Felton, |>E.A. Felton and Nancy Allen. |> |>Mrs. Nancy A. Allen, the widow of Moses Allen, died on May 2, 1889. |Her |>grave in the Old Bartlett Cemetery is marked. The burial place of |her |>husband has not been determined. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Allen |included |>the following children: Emily A. Allen, who married Daniel |Gilliland, Jr. |>and later O.C. Felton; Rachael E. Allen, who married William |Gilliland; and |>Elisha W. Allen, who died between the time the 1860 census was taken |and |>before his father's estate was settled on June 22, 1869. |> |>Daniel Gilliland, Jr. and William Gilliland, brothers, who married |Emily and |>Rachael Allen, were sons of Daniel and Precilla Boutright Gilliland. |Daniel |>Gilliland, Sr., with horses, cattle and farming tools, was among the |>original settlers in the Colorado District of the Austin Colony. He |settled |>his family down stream from the Brazos Ferry location on December 31, |1821. |>The Gilliland family Bible confirms that William Gilliland and Rachel |E. |>Allen were married on December 3, 1851, and Daniel Gilliland, Jr. and |Emily |>Allen were married July 25, 1854 in Milam County. |> |>Submitted by: Rev. E.F. Allen, Jr. |> |>(Note: I have photographs of the Allen sites in the Old Bartlett |Cemetery |>for DeWayne Wallace...I just need your snail mail address again, |please. |>mab) |> |> |> |> |>==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== |>RootsWeb Supports GenConnect |>Help Support RootsWeb |>http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html |> |> | | | |==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== |Support Your Local Genealogy Or Historical Society... You Can Often |Find Helpful Points Of Contact And Resources There. |