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1. GIDEON
A.1
ALLEN
was born April 22, 1804
in North Carolina, and died April 24, 1875 in Plain Dealing,
Louisana. He
married MARY
ANN
HORN 1828 in Twiggs County,
GA, daughter
of JOAB
HORN and
NANCY
DIXON. She was born November 20, 1807
in Twiggs County, Georgia, and died January 19, 1899 in Plain
Dealing, Louisana.
GIDEON ALLEN came to Twiggs County Georgia as a child in
the early 1820's. His parentage is unknown except that they
came from North Carolina. The Georgia Journal
(Milledgeville) Newspaper, published a number of postings
regarding letters left a the Marion Post Office for John
Allen. I suspect this may be Gideon Allen's father. (click here to read more about this
theory).
Letter's were
left as early as July 1.1821. Also letters recorded
July 1, 1822; July 1, 1826. This places the Allens
in Twiggs County around Marion as early as 1821. No Allen's are listed
in the 1820 census, so it's likely they settled there between
the time census was taken and July
1821.
GIDEON ALLEN was listed as a
member of the Troop of Cavalry organized to be called on for
Military Aid to protect the surveyers in Cherokee county. Cherokee County was
created by an legislative act on Dec. 26, 1832 from the
Cherokee lands in north Georgia. The land was surveyed 6 years
before the final deportation of the Indians and was formed
into one large county called Cherokee. On
April 10th, 1832 an
election was held at the Marion court house to elect officers
for the cavelry troop.
William Wimberly was elected as Captain and Reuben A.
Nash, John R. Moore were elected as 1sy and 2nd Lieutenants
respectively.
Henry Swearington was elected Ensign. The other 61 men on
the muster were privates. Gideon Allen
was listed 12th
in the muster roll.
In 1844, GIDEON ALLEN and his family left
Twiggs County and migrated to Bossier Parish Louisianna. This
was during the time when most people in the Marion area
vacated the county due to the railroad. The ALLEN family
was no exception and arrived in Bossier Parish in February of
1845. The Bossier Citizens and
Landmarks in The
Bossier Banner, by Mrs Mollie Banks
Gray wrote this account
of his arrival to the
area:
"He came to Bossier Parish
in 1845 to bring Major Hamiter’s
slaves; he lived on the Hamiter place until
1855. He
entered land where the house stood near Red Land from the
government and bought more at intervals until he owned
several thousand acres. Supposedly, he
acquired a good amount of property and
money."
GIDEON ALLEN started purchasing
property in the Red Land area of Bossier Parish for a number
of years. Over time he acquired several thousand acres and a
mill. His residence was built in 1856 located in Red
Land.
GIDEON ALLEN died at home on April
24, 1875. The Bossier Banner published his obituary on 29 April 1875, p. 3e,as
follows:
"Died, at his residence,
near Red Land, Bossier Parish, La., at 15 minutes past 8
o’clock P.M., on the 24th day of April, of Paralysis, GIDEON
ALLEN; aged 71 years and 2
days."
In the probate records in the
Clerk of Court's Office, Bossier Parish Court, Benton,
Louisiana, a petition is recorded dated
22 November 1875. The succession includes his widow, Mary Allen (nee Horn), a
daughter, Elizabeth Allen, who had married John J. Scott, was
deceased, leaving two daughters, Virginia P. and Lena H.
Scott. John G. and Rufus
H. Allen were surviving sons of Gideon Allen.
Other daughters
living at the time were Matilda Allen
(who was married to Martin Martins), Mary A. Allen (wife of
A.J. Spurlin), Georgia Allen (wife of J.B. Bixbe, Jr.).
Property owned by Gideon
Allen included a "considerable" amount of land, a Gin Stand
and Grist Mill, livestock, etc.
Children of GIDEON ALLEN and MARY HORN are:
i.
MATILDA2 ALLEN, b. Bef. 1835, Twiggs County, Georgia;
m. MARTIN
MARTINS, January 17, 1847, Bossier Parish,
LA.
2. ii.
JOHN G.
ALLEN, b. March 06, 1835, Twiggs County,
Georgia; d. September 27, 1906, Plain Dealing,
LA.
3.
iii.
MARY AMANDA ALLEN, b. May 16, 1837; d. July 27, 1888,
Grayson Co., Texas
???.
4.
iv.
ELIZABETH ALLEN, b. March 04, 1840, Twiggs County, GA;
d. July 21, 1865, Bossier Parish, LA.
5,
v.
RUFUS HARRISON ALLEN, b. April 02, 1842, Twiggs County, GA;
d. February 01, 1927.
vi.
WILLIAM P.
ALLEN, b. August 22, 1844; d. August 21,
1849.
vii.
JOSIAH W.
ALLEN, b. February 03, 1847; d. July 15,
1888.
viii.
NANCY E.
ALLEN, b. January 20, 1851; d. November 21,
1865.
6. ix.
GEORGIA ANN
ALLEN, b. August 18, 1853, Bossier Parish,
LA; d. December 25, 1894, Desoto Parish,
LA.
Generation No.
2
2.
JOHN G.2 ALLEN (GIDEON A.1)1 was born March 06, 1835 in Twiggs
County, Georgia, and died September 27, 1906 in Plain Dealing,
LA. He married
EMILY L.
SPURLIN December 21, 1854 in Red Land,
Louisiana, daughter of GREEN SPURLIN
and MALINDA TRUITT. She was born August
01, 1837 near Meridan, Mississippi, and died February 19,
1931 in Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
He was known as John G.
Allen. What
did his middle initial represent, Gideon or Green? I've seen
refernence to both.
The Masonic records his name as John Gideon Allen. I've also seen John
Green Allen probably after his presumed uncle, Green Allen. Not sure which is
correct, therefore I will refer to him with his middle initial
G as he did in most signatures.
John G. Allen came with his
parents to Louisiana in 1845 and settled with them in the Red
Land community. He married
EmiIy S. Spurlin on 21 December 1854 by a minister of the
Gospel, Robert Martin in Bossier Parish, Louisiana according
to the marriage license on record.
On
April 6, 1862, John G.
Allen enlisted in the Confederate Army
along with his brother Rufus H. Allen and was assigned to
Company C, 6th Louisiana Cavalry. He enlisted as a
private and later was promoted to sergeant. Family stories claimed
he served with that unit at Chickamauga, 19-20
September 1863, however I have been unable to confirm whether
that regiment actually was in that campaign. According to
a veteran obituary published shortly after his death in the
1907 edition of "The Confederate Veteran" magazine, he went
directly to Corinth Mississippi after enlisting and was
promoted to second sergeant just after the battle at Denmark,
Tennessee. The 6th Louisiana Cavalry was attached to
General Forrest's regiment during that time. He served
in this capacity until late 1864 when he
was transferred to west of the Mississippi River and was
promoted to first lieutenant in Company D, of the 1st
Louisiana Cavalry until his surrender at Shreveport on May 25,
1865.
After the war, he served the
public in several capacities as a county clerk and justice of
the peace. On 11 July 1878, The
Bossier Banner newpaper on p. 3c:, John G. Allen was
announced as a candidate for the House of Representatives from
Bossier Parish, subject to nomination of the
Democratic-Conservative Party.
He moved to Plain Dealing in
the 1890’s. An election
held in Plain Dealing on Monday, 8 April 1902 for town
officers to serve terms of two years, J.G. Allen was elected
mayor.
A few years prior to his
death, he went blind. In his Confederate Pension
Application submitted in 1898, he commented "...lost sight in
the right eye due to glaucoma."
John G. Allen was a very active
Mason in the Red Land Lodge from 1856 to 1891, when he
demitted and went to Plain Dealing Lodge (No. 237, F.
and A.M) .until his death He was a master mason and was
reputedly the oldest Mason in the state before his
death. A committee of
the lodge wrote a tribute titled "In
Memory of Brother J.G. Allen" that was entered into the
minutes of the lodge (20 November 1906) and was published
in the Bossier Banner on 10 January 1907. Supposedly it was also
published in Bossier Square and Compass.
Children of JOHN ALLEN and EMILY SPURLIN are:
i.
VIOLA H.3 ALLEN, b. December 23, 1855; d. May 16,
1871.
ii.
PAUL E.
ALLEN, b. March 05, 1857; d. November 25,
1871.
7.
iii.
GREEN G.
ALLEN, b. August 06, 1859, Orangeburg, SC
????; d. March 01, 1938.
iv.
JAMES R.
ALLEN, b. October 24,
1861.
v.
ALICE E.
ALLEN, b. August 25, 1864; d. November 23,
1937; m. SAMUEL H.
COCHRAN, December 17, 1884, Bossier Parish,
LA.
vi.
EUGENIA ALLEN, b. October 08, 1866, Savannah,
Georgia ???; m. R.E.
LEE.
8.
vii.
JOHN CLAUD ALLEN, b. July 10, 1869, Plain Dealing, LA;
d. January 18, 1927, Plain Dealing,
LA.
viii. MATILDA (MATTIE)
M.
ALLEN,
b. January 03, 1872;
m. W.T.
NORMAN.
3. MARY
AMANDA2
ALLEN
(GIDEON
A.1)
was born May 16, 1837,
and died July 27, 1888 in Grayson Co., Texas ???. She married
ALFRED
JACKSON
SPURLIN
December 15, 1853 in
Bossier Parish, LA, son of GREEN
SPURLIN
and MALINDA
TRUITT. He was born 1828 in Alabama,
and died October 17, 1888 in Red Land (Plain Dealing),
LA.
Children of MARY ALLEN and ALFRED SPURLIN are:
i.
W. J.3 SPURLIN, b. Abt. 1857, Bossier Parish,
Lousianna.
ii.
FRANCIS EUGENIA SPURLIN2, b. July 11, 1861, Bossier Parish,
Lousianna; d. January 14, 1890, Wager Ranch, Vernon, Texas; m.
JOHN JACKSON ROBERSON2, December 20, 1877, Bossier Parish,
LA.
iii. LOUISE JANIE SPURLIN2, d. Died as
Infant.
iv.
JIM
SPURLIN2, m. CLARA MCCLELLAND2.
v. MALINDA SPURLIN2, m. HARRISON WALDROP2.
vi. ALLEN SPURLIN2, b. November 15, 1867; d. March 26,
1890; m. IDA HOLMAN2.
vii. JOSEPH SPURLIN2, m. NORA
BOGGS2.
viii. DICKSON SPURLIN2, d. Died
Young.
ix. ELWOOD SPURLIN2, d. Died
Young.
x. BETTY SPURLIN2, m. FRANK WALDROUP2.
xi. NALINDA SPURLIN2 (Nalinda was a twin of
Malinda who died at
birth.)
4.
ELIZABETH2 ALLEN (GIDEON A.1) was born March 04, 1840 in Twiggs
County, GA, and died July 21, 1865 in Bossier Parish, LA. She married
DR. JOHN JOSEPH SCOTT October 11, 1859 in Bossier Parish,
LA3, son of SAMUEL CALLIHAN SCOTT. He was born October
23, 1837 in Scott's Ferry, Edgefield District, S.C., and died
Bef. November 22, 1895.
Elizabeth died during
childbirth of Gideon Allen Scott. In the JJ Scott family
bible, he noted she "departed this life suddenly in child
birth." The baby
died a few months later from whooping cough, at an age of 3
months and 10 days.
Elizabeth was buried next to her mother, Mary
Horn on
July 22, 1865 in the
Salem Cemetary, Plain Dealing,
LA.
Elizabeth was very close to
her parents. She was listed in the as one of the
beneficiaries listed in Gideon Allen's estate.
Unfortunately, she was not alive at the time of his death so
it passed to her husband. Family stories arose about the
"proverbial yankee doctor she married who supposedly stole whatever fortune the
Allens accumulated." However most likely, the bulk
of Gideon Allen's estate was sold to pay off debts leaving
little to the beneficiaries.
Children of ELIZABETH ALLEN and JOHN SCOTT are:
i.
VIRGINIA PALMYRA3 SCOTT3, b. November 22, 1860, Bossier Parish,
LA.
ii.
LENA RUANA SCOTT3, b. April 24, 1862, Bossier Parish,
LA.
iii. GIDEON
ALLEN
SCOTT4,
b. July 21, 1865,
Bossier Parish, LA; d. October 31, 1865, Of Whooping Cough,
Bossier Parish,
LA.
5. RUFUS
HARRISON2
ALLEN
(GIDEON
A.1)
was born April 02, 1842
in Twiggs County, GA, and died February 01, 1927. He married
NANCY
MISSISSIPPI
LIVERMAN
February 04, 1861 in
Bossier Parish, LA. She was born Abt. 1841 in
Mississippi.
Children of RUFUS ALLEN and NANCY LIVERMAN are:
i.
EMMETT A.3 ALLEN, b. April 23, 1864, Bossier Parish,
LA; d. December 05, 1865, Bossier Parish,
LA.
9.
ii.
LULU
ALLEN, b. Abt. 1870,
LA.
iii.
CARRIE ALLEN, b. Abt. 1868,
LA.
10.
iv.
MARCUS JOSIAH ALLEN, b. May 24, 1866,
LA.
v.
EVY ALLEN, b. Abt. 1873, Bossier Parish,
LA.
vi.
PAIOL ALLEN, b. Abt. 1879, Bossier Parish,
LA.
6. GEORGIA
ANN2
ALLEN
(GIDEON
A.1)
was born August 18, 1853
in Bossier Parish, LA, and died December 25, 1894 in Desoto
Parish, LA.
She married JOHN
BARCLAY
BIXLER,
JR.. He was born Abt.
18455.
Children of GEORGIA ALLEN and JOHN BIXLER are:
i.
JOHN GIDEON3 BIXLER.
ii.
GEORGIA ALLEN BIXLER6,6,7, b. Abt.
18728.
iii.
WILLIAM LORIN BIXLER9.
iv.
LYDIA VAY
BIXLER9, b. Abt.
187910.
v.
NETTIE BIXLER11.
vi. EMMETTE
VAY
BIXLER11.
Generation No.
3
7.
GREEN G.3 ALLEN (JOHN G.2, GIDEON A.1) was born August 06, 1859 in
Orangeburg, SC ????, and died March 01, 1938. He married
CAROLYN HOLMAN January 18, 1883 in Bossier Parish,
LA. She was born
May 29, 1862, and died January 17, 1942.
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8.
JOHN CLAUD3 ALLEN (JOHN G.2, GIDEON A.1) was born July 10, 1869 in Plain
Dealing, LA, and died January 18, 1927 in Plain Dealing,
LA. He
married MARY (ANNIE) HOLMAN. She died May 23, 1894
in Plain Dealing, LA following a difficult birth of their only
child. The official cause of death was listed as a "slow
fever", probably due to an infection obtained during
childbirth.
He married for the second time
to MARY LOUWELLEN ALLEN May 20, 1896 in Bossier Parish, LA,
daughter of JOHN ALLEN and MARY WYNN. She was born November
24, 1876 in Winnfield, LA, and died October
1930.
He was known as "Claudie" to
family members. Claudie worked as a carpenter in Plain
Dealing and the Red Land area. The Bossier Banner published his
obituary on 20 January
1927, p. 4a...
" He was 58 years old, from
Bossier City.
He died at Wednesday morning (19 January 1927), 3
o'clock at North Louisiana sanitarium. He was taken to the
hospital on Friday, by his son Corbie L. Allen of Plain
Dealing. He was
in critical condition, "dying from an attack of
paralysis."
Funeral was at Plain Dealing Baptist church at 2
o’clock Wednesday. Burial in the Plain Dea1ing
cemetery."
Further on, the article also says
he died at 3:30 on Monday morning, 17 January in a Shreveport
sanitarium. The article
mentioned a Rev. John Winham, pastor of a Baptist church in
Texarkana, Arkansas -- a "distant relative." The boyhood home
of the deceased was near Red Land. Deceased's great
grand-father was Rev. Allen Winham, of Rocky Mount.
The article also mentions
the...
"ties of friendship which connected
them [Allen fami1y] with other families of that place [Rocky
Mount or Red Land], those of Rev. A.R. Banks’ family in
particular." He was the
son of Emily Allen (then 88 years old) and John Allen. Born 10 July
1869. He was
survived by a widow, Mrs. J.C. Allen, 4 sons and 2
daughters.
Survived by his mother, 3 sisters -- Mrs. S.H.
Cochran of Shreveport, Mrs. Jena Lee of Little Rock, and
Mrs. W.T. Norman of Winnfield, and a brother G.G. Allen of
Plain Dealing. Among
those listed as present at the funeral were a "Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Allen, Jr. and
baby."
Child of JOHN CLAUD ALLEN and MARY HOLMAN is:
i.
CORBIE L.4 ALLEN, b. April 06, 1894, Plain Dealing, LA;
d. April 08, 1949.
Children of JOHN CLAUD ALLEN and MARY ALLEN are:
ii.
BERTIE OPAL4 ALLEN, b. July 10, 1897; d.
1898.
11.
iii.
CLAUD TARKINGTON ALLEN, b. July 09, 1900, Bossier City, LA;
d. April 02, 1990, Greenville,
SC.
iv.
GLENN ALLEN, b. October 17, 1902, Bossier City,
LA; d. 1903, Bossier City, LA.
12.
v.
MATTYE EUGENIA ALLEN, b. October 20, 1904, Bossier City,
LA; d. 1988.
13.
vi.
GROVER CLEVELAND ALLEN, b. March 23, 1907, Bossier City, LA;
d. December 27, 1927.
vii.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT ALLEN, b. March 23, 1907, Bossier City, LA;
d. April 1987, Cameron, TX.
viii.
LOLA LOUISE ALLEN, b. February 14, 1912, Bossier City,
LA; d. 1913, Bossier City, LA.
ix. TOMMIE PIRKLE ALLEN, b. February 22, 1914, Bossier City,
LA; d. 1967.
9.
LULU3 ALLEN (RUFUS HARRISON2, GIDEON A.1)12 was born Abt. 1870 in Louisiana. She married
? GRAHAM.
Only known child of LULU
ALLEN and ?
GRAHAM is:
i.
MAURICE4 GRAHAM, m. CARL
(CAL)
STRAYHAM.
10.
MARCUS JOSIAH3 ALLEN (RUFUS HARRISON2, GIDEON A.1)13 was born May 24, 1866 in
Louisiana.
Only known child of MARCUS JOSIAH ALLEN is:
i.
HORTENSE4 ALLEN13, b. January 18, 1908, Plain Dealing,
Lousianna; m. ??
BAKER13.
Generation No.
4
11.
CLAUD TARKINGTON4 ALLEN (JOHN CLAUD3, JOHN G.2, GIDEON A.1) was born July 09, 1900 in Bossier
City, LA, and died April 02, 1990 in Greenville, SC. He married
IONA OLIVE ARNOLD June 18, 1921 in Shreveport, LA (in
the parsonage of the Texas Ave. Methodist Church), daughter of
EDWARD ARNOLD and PEARL PEET. She was born November
26, 1904 in Toledo, OH.
Claud T. Allen was in the
leather-working business; leaving Bossier City, La. around
1937 or 1938 to go to Greenville, S.C. to help establish a
belting company --Carolina Belting Company. He served as its
vice-president until 1963 or 1964. Other information
pertaining to him is private.
Children of CLAUD ALLEN and IONA ARNOLD are:
i.
BETTY ALINE5 ALLEN, b. <private> Bossier
City, LA; m. RICHARD OTTO
RICKE.
ii. JOHN
CLYDE
ALLEN,
b. September 16, 1931,
Bossier City, LA; d. April 23, 2003, Columbia, SC; m.
CLAIRE
GIFFORD
HORGER,
<private>
12.
MATTYE EUGENIA4 ALLEN (JOHN CLAUD3, JOHN G.2, GIDEON A.1) was born October 20, 1904 in Bossier
City, LA, and died 1988.
She married JUEL W.
LEA June 25, 1922.
Children of MATTYE ALLEN and JUEL LEA
are:
i.
ALLEN WENDELL5 LEA,
b. 1926; d. 1984; m. PAWNEE PATTERSON, August 12,
1949.
ii.
LESLIE GENE
LEA, b. 1927; d.
1982.
iii.
ARDEN LEA,
b. 1935; d. 2000.
13.
GROVER CLEVELAND4 ALLEN (JOHN CLAUD3, JOHN G.2, GIDEON A.1) was born March 23, 1907 in Bossier
City, LA, and died December 27,
1927.
Family stories have
been told that Grover Allen died as a result of a
automobile accident.
He was driving a Model-T down a Lousianna road and ran
off the road flipping the car in a deep ditch. He drowned in the
water. Probably occurred around
Bossier City. I have not seen any published accounts of
his death.
References
1. Transcribed by: Kay
McMahan <kayn@webtv.net>, Bossier Parish, La Masonic
Records,
(http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/bossier/misc/lodge.txt),
"Electronic."
2. Kathy Hart, EMAIL
from Kathy Hart re: Spurlin Genealogy, (Posted on Rootsweb
[LABOSSIE-L] Mailing List on Jun 20,
1999).
3. Compiled by Jeanette
Holland Austin, Georgia Bible Records, (Genealogical
Publishing Co., Inc.,
Baltimore, 1985).
4. Compiled by Jeanette
Holland Austin, Georgia Bible Records, (Genealogical
Publishing Co., Inc.,
Baltimore, 1985), 3.
5. Misc Compiled
Information, Georgia Allen Bixler Notes,
"Electronic."
6. Clifton D. Cardin,
Officail Bossier Parish Historian, A Brief History of the City
of Bossier City.
7. Kathy Hart, EMAIL
from Kathy Hart,
(EMAIL Posting on rootsweb LA-BOSSIE mailing list),
"Electronic."
8. Misc Compiled
Information, Georgia Allen Bixler Notes,
"Electronic."
9. Kathy Hart, EMAIL
from Kathy Hart,
(EMAIL Posting on rootsweb LA-BOSSIE mailing list),
"Electronic."
10. Misc Compiled
Information, Georgia Allen Bixler Notes,
"Electronic."
11. Kathy Hart, EMAIL
from Kathy Hart,
(EMAIL Posting on rootsweb LA-BOSSIE mailing list),
"Electronic."
12. Gail Bunch, EMAIL
from Gail Bunch Re: Question.
13. Andy Baker, EMAIL
from Andy Baker,
(7/15/2001), "Electronic."
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