Capt. Allen McDonald

Allen McDonald was born 22 JUN 1803 in Tennessee, and died 25 NOV 1862 in Scott County, Tennessee. He was the son of James McDonald and Sarah Cox.

A Merchant, Justice of the peace, Court Clerk and in one source referred to as "esquire" indicating he might have practiced law. Allen was shot during the 1864 war and able to get as far as Christina's brother Andrew's place before he died from loss of blood.

(Info given from a McDonald family member.)

biography

Allen McDonald was the first Scott County Court Clerk, a Deputy Marshall, Justice of the Peace, merchant, farmer, and census enumerator. He served in Company G of the 7th Tennessee Infantry (Union). In a reimbursement claim made by Samuel Roberts of the Welsh Colony Brynyffynon "for supplies furnished in Scott County, Tennessee, to Union Troops during the Rebellion" he was called "Captain MacDonald".

"Many of the warmest advocates and firmest helpers of the Union often sheltered in our house, in times of privation and peril. I could name Col. Staples, Major Duncan, Capt. Cotton, Capt. Macdonald, Capt. Evan Jones, and many others." ---Samuel Roberts, Conway, North Wales, Great Britain, April 22, 1881 , page 151, Samuel Roberts, by Wilbur Shepperson, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville,1961.

According to his pension file, Allen was captured either on either the 6th or the 12th of September. "Said soldier had been a prisoner of war in Knoxville Tenn, and been either parolled, or made his escape from the enemy, Some few days before he came to their (Andrew Lawson's) house, which was the tenth of November, 1862. ...the rebels were raging through the country and that it was impossible to get a physician.." He died of "camp fever" at the Lawson home, either on November 20 or 25. Allen could have visited Brynyffynon the last time on his way towards home.

Allen McDonald was listed as a "Lt." on the "Memorandum From Prisoner of War Records" in his file, but as a private in the muster roll that records his death. In 1863 Colonel Bradley inspected the 7th Regiment in Kentucky. "It was quite impossible to distinguish the officers from enlisted men as all were dressed alike in Private apparel and each acted on his own authority.....I took charge of all the books and papers ...but could make very little sense out of them....the records were very imperfectly kept and incorrect...". ---page 169, Scott County in the Civil War.

Because of his prominence as a merchant and county official, along with the irregular organization and haphazard record keeping of locally raised Union forces, all in the context of the confusion of partisan war, I believe that Allen McDonald served as a Captain but appeared in the few after the fact documents as both a Lieutenant and Private.

family

Allen McDonald married Lakie Jeffers and had the following children- Elihu James, John, Elmira, Nancy, Sally by first wife who died. He then married Christeen Lawson and had the following children Mandy Scott and Frazier- ..... He also was the father of Dan Jeffers and Emerson Jeffer Dans mother was Pherbie Smith Emerson mother was Judee Jeffers. Allen died during the Civil war.

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He married

1. Lakie Jeffers, daughter of William Jeffers and Mary ?. She was born 1807 in Tennessee, and died DEC 1849 in Scott County, Tennessee.
2. Christine Lawson 25 DEC 1849 in Campbell County, Tennessee, daughter of Thomas Lawson and Nancy Jeffers. She was born ABT 1830 in Campbell County, Tennessee, and died 1902 in Oklahoma. She was buried in Dibble Cemetery, McClain County, Oklahoma.
3. Pherbie Jeffers. She was born ABT 1820 in Tennessee. (not married)
4. Judy Jeffers. She was born ABT 1812 in Tennessee, and died 20 DEC 1881 in Scott County, Tennessee. She was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Scott County, Tennessee. (not married)

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