Hugh Joseph Allen, Sr.

• Residence: Bexar county, part of, Bexar, Texas, United States - 1850
• Residence: Bexar, Texas, United States - 1860
• Residence: Texas, United States - 1870
• Residence: Precinct 1, Burnet, Texas, United States - 1880
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1880 Census
Precinct 1, Burnet, Texas

Hugh Allen 79 SC SC SC
Mary Allen 65 IN

1870 Census
Llano, Sandy Mountain, Texas

Daniel Allen 29 TX
Mathilde Allen 21 MS
William B Allen 1 TX
Hugh Allen 70 NC
Hugh Sanden 6 TX

1860 Census
Bexar, Texas

Hugh Allen 59 SC
Caroline 57 VI
Daniel 20 TX
Sarah J. 18 TX
Rebecca 13 TX
C. B. Settenbarn 38 Prussia

1850 Census
Cibilo Creek, Bexar, Texas

Hugh Allen 49 SC
Caroline Allen 48 VA
James M Allen 18 TN
Hugh Allen 16 TN
Mary Allen 14 TN
Elizabeth Allen 12 TX
Daniel Allen 10 TX
Sarah Allen 8 TX
Rebecca Allen 2 TX
William Walters 28 KY
Emanuel Wiscowy 30 Holand
january 13, 1878

marries Mary Edwards in burnet, texas

november 12, 1870

marries Elizabeth Mescal in burnet, texas

may 19, 1860

District Bexas, County McCulloch, Texas
Sold 320 acres; Texas Land Title Abstracts

april 25, 1859

Texas
Bought back land he had sold to William Turner on Cibilo Creek and moved family back. Sold Ketemcy property.

november 21, 1858

Texas
Wrote letter to Governor, re: Indian attacks (See story).

march 6, 1858

Hugh bought 320 Acres on Katemcy Creek, McCulloch County.
Hugh was the first white settler in the Katemcy Creek area. For a living, he hunted, killed and skinned the Texas Longhorn cattle.

may 9, 1854

Texas
Sold 120 acres from William Ware estate.

febuary 4, 1854

Texas
Received 120 acres of the estate of William Ware under their agreement.

january 17, 1854

Selma, Bexas, Texas
Made Trustee of school in Selma, Texas.

march 30, 1849

Upshur, Texas
Hugh sold to Alexander Allen 523 acres of the Upshur county property for $523.

october 7, 1847

Texas
Bought additional property in the same area from William Greenwood, cost $45. This was "our William Greenwood."

august 3, 1847

Selma, Bexar, Texas
Bought 320 acres from William Bracken for $320 in Bexar Co., on Cibilo Creek, resided there---2 mi from Selma, just outside of San Antonio, Texas

october 27, 1845

Texas
Sold an additional 177 acres of headright for $300 to Alexander Allen.

september 19, 1843

Upshur, Texas
Received a second parat of headright of 640 acres in Upshire Co., 20 miles from Selma

june 4, 1831

Texas
Completed his residence of 3 years, applied for and received headright of 1280 acres.

june 11, 1837

Texas
Arrived in the Republic of Texas and lived in Bexar Co., w/wife, 2 Sons & 5 daughters--received a land grant in Red River Co., Clarksville, Tx., 1200-1600 acs., situated in Titus and Cass Counties.

nov. 9, 1826

Tennessee
16 A Survey on Jones Fork of Caney Fork; Smith Co., Tn., Surveys Book 1, Pg. 217

Name: Hugh Sen. Allen
State: TX
County: Bexar County
Township: Wilson
Year: 1860
Record Type: Slave schedule
Page: 077
Database: TX 1860 Slave Schedule

Frontier Times Magazine, Vol 9, #4, Pg 170-171

FROM MRS. MADDUX
We are in receipt. of a letter from a real Texas mother, Mrs. Mattie A. Maddux, 922 West 9th Street, Dallas , Texas, who has been a regular reader of Frontier Times for the past six or seven years, and which we are glad to publish for the good information it contains.

Mrs. Maddox is a daughter of William Greenwood, who settled in Mason county in the early fifties, and was one of the prominent citizens of that section for many years . The letter fo11ows:

"Dear Mr. Hunter : An article in the November number of your magazine gives Mr. Turner credit for being the oldest settler at Camp San Saba. His grandfather settled near that place in the latter '5Os . He moved to that county from near San Antonio and lived there several years. He was also my grandfather, and when I was a child I spent many pleasant hours in the old log house built by Grandfather Allen. One Christmas my father's family went to visit them, and when we arrived my grandmother had a big fat turkey roasting before the big log fire. There was also another settler at the time grandfather lived there by the name of Rumsey, or Ramsey. I remember going fishing with a pin hook in a little branch near the home. It had no name that I can remember.

I also remember that we went to a bluff where the bees were coming out of a hole, and Jack Couch was suspended by a rope and he took out the honey if there was any. One night one of my uncles and this man Couch thought they would go out and get a
turkey. It wasn't long until they heard a turkey gobble. They went toward where the call seemed to come from. Presently the air was full of arrows, and my uncle was shot in the back. Soon afterward my grandfather Hugh Allen, left that county. Then Mr. Bill Turner moved there. I do not know whither he occupied. the house grandfather built, but I am inclined to think he did. I once knew all of these people. I never was at Camp San Saba. It was a household word for several years. I thought you might want to keep the record straight is why I am sending you this note. Albert Turner is younger than myself, and I remember quite well when they moved to that county. They spent the night in my father's home. I expect I enjoy your magazine more than any of your readers. As soon as the postman delivers the little yellow back magazine I repair to my room and read every page before closing it. I am eighty-one years old today and am getting pretty feeble".

marriages:

Hugh Allen Birth: May 21, 1801; Stokes County, North Carolina, USA Death: Sep. 5, 1837 Red Rock Bastrop County Texas, USA Son of Hezekiah Allen and Martha Lawson Husband of Mary Edwards married 01/13/1878 in Burnett County, Texas, Elizabeth Mescal married 12/11/1870 in Burnett County, Texas, Caroline Matilda Frazier married about 1820 in Tennessee Burial: High Grove Cemetery, Bastrop County Texas, USA

more data....

1826 -9 Nov; ( Smith Co., TN Surveys Bk 1 p217)

-ALLEN, Hugh-16A survey on Jones Fork of Caney Fork Begin E50P S50P W50P N50P Entry 309 24 Aug 1824. SCC Wm Austin & Hardy Allen. .

1886 Letter from Hugh Allen to son
"He did not expect to live long. He was almost blind and crippled."

Hugh Allen received a land grant in Red River Co, Texas-1200 or l600 acres, situated in Titus and Cass Counties. He came to Texas in 1838 and lived in Bexar Co, Texas in 1847 on Cibilos Creek-2 miles from Selma.

RANDOL PAFFORD to THOMAS PAFFORD, $150, Hannah's Branch of Smith's Fork, it being the place where the old THOMAS PAFFORD now ilves adjoining HEZEKIAH DAVIS near R. PAFFORD's spring, adjoining CHARLES HILL, THOMAS LAWRENCE's southeast corner, head of Sugar Camp Hollow on conditional corner made by THOMAS LAWRENCE and BLAKELEY ALLEN, conditional corner made by HUGH ALLEN and LEWIS LAWRENCE, head of DAVIS' old field, 80 acres part of 100 acre tract that HEZEKIAH DAVIS has and part of a 100 acre tract made by WILLIAM WHITE.
Witnesses: LEWIS LAWRENCE, THOMAS LAWRENCE

-Hezekiah Allen to Stephen Atnip for $250 200A Dist 10 Beg Henry Taylors E line..then line made by Hezekiah Allen, decd & Hugh Allen includes where said Allen now lives. 9 Aug 1849. Hezekiah Allen. Wit: J. Fuson & John Fuson Court 6 Jan 1851.

Hugh ALLEN Self M Male W 79 SC Farmer SC SC
Mary ALLEN Wife M Female W 65 IN Keeping House NC VA

cibolo creek history

History

Cibolo Creek was called "Xoloton" by the early Coahuiltecan Indians of the area and "Bata Coniquiyoqui" by Tonkawa indians. During the expedition of the Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo in 1721 the stream was named "Río Cibolo." In 1768 the Marqués de Rubí included Cibolo Creek in his list of potential sites for posts to solidify the Spanish hold on Texas. In the late 1840s and early 1850s the communities of Schertz, Sutherland Springs, Cibolo, Boerne, La Vernia, and Bulverde were established along the creek.

LETTER FROM HUGH ALLEN TO GOVERNOR RUNNELS

TAKEN FROM TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS 1846-1859, pgs. 308-309-310

No 203 LETTER FROM HUGH ALLEN TO Hdated NOV. 21, 1858

SAN SABA RIVER BELKNAP CROSSING 18 MILES NORTH OF FT. MASON, TEXAS

GOV RUNNELS MY DEAR SIR

I WISH TO INFORM YOU THE CONDITION THAT I AM PLAICED (PLACED) IN ON THE ACCOUNT OF NO PROTECTION NOR SECURITY OF LIFE OR PROPERTY. I HAVE LIVED 20 YEARSE ON THE FRONTEERS OF TEXAS AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I EVER MARKED PAPER ON THE ACCOUNT OF INDIANS DEPREDATION, BUT THO TROUBLED OFTEN BY THEM LAST MARCH THE 27 AT LATE DUSK MY SONE WAS SHOT WITH AN ARROW SLIGHTY IN ONE MILE OF MY HOUSE THAT KNIGHT AT 12oc I REPORTED TO MAJOR THOMAS COMMANDER AT FT. MASON REQUESTED MEN TO BE AT MY HOUSE BY SUNRIZE NEXT MORNING HTE DISTANCE OF 18 MILES AT 12oc SARGENT NcNELTY CAME WITH 10 MEN WENT TO THE SAN SABA RIVER IN 400 YARDS IOF THE PLACE THE DEPRECATION WAS COMMITTED THEARE THEY FISHED AND WALLOWED ABOUT INTIL PAST 2oc THEN THEY WENT TO THE PLAICE THARE WE FOUND THREE ARROWS SHOT INTO A LOG MOCKESON TRACKS AND HORSE TRACKS THEY THEN FOLLOWED THE TRAIL ABOUT 2 MILES AND RETURNED BACK AND THERE CAME A RAIN THEY THEN RETURNED TO FT. MASON AND I UNDERSTAND REPORTED THEY FOLLOWED THE TRAIL 15 MILES AND THE RAIN DESTROYED THE TRAIL THAT WAS PARTE OF G. COMPANY 2CAY

AND ON THE 27 OF

OCT LAST THE INDIANS CAME AND STOLE THE LAST HORSE WE HAD AND KILLED WHAT BEEF THEY WANTED AND DROVE OFF THE NEXT MORNING I SENT MY SONE TO FT. MASON LIEUTENANT SHAFFER OF B COMP WAS IN COMMAND HE SAID TO MY SONE THAT IT WAS NOT THE INDIANS IT WAS WHITE MEN SO RECEIVED NO HELP THREE DAYS AFTERWARDS A GOVERNMENT TRAIN COMING FROM FT. CHADBOURNE CAME WITH WHITE BLANKETS LIKE THE RESERVE INDIANS GETS OF GOVERNMENT THE REASON THE CITISONS DO NOT CALL ON THE MILITARY FORCES WHEN THEY CALL THEY ARE HERD AND HERD NO GOOD IS DONE THE REPORT OF MANY TO THE WAR DEPARTMENT TTHAT IT IS WHITE MEN HAS COST MANEY A WOMAN AND CHILDS LIFE AND NOW THE WOODSARE FULL OF INDIANS SINE IN ONE MILE OF MY HOUSE I DARE NOT TO LEAVE MY HOUSE TO DO ONE MILE ON ANEY BUSINESS FOR FEAR MY FAMILELY IS MURDERED BEFORE I CAN GET BACK I PAY MY TAXES AS OTHER CITISONS FOR PROTECTION AND HAS GAILED TO GET IT NOW MY DESR SIRL CALL ON YOU FOR SOME PROTECTION IN SOME WAY THE IDEY OF WAITING INTIL WE SEE WHAT EFECT THIS LARGECAMPEIGN WILL HAVE I THINK EVER SINCE VAN DORN ROUTED THEM AND DISMOUNTED SO MANEY THEY HAVE BIN DOWN TO GET MORE HORSES AND I THINK HE WILL DRIVE THEM DOWN ON US SO NO MORE AT PRESENT BUT TEMAINS YOURS, ETC HUGH ALLEN SEN ENDORSED HUGH ALLEN NOVR 21

IN APRIL 1859 HUGH MOVED HIS FAMILY BACK TO CIBILO CREEK. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SOLD THAT PROPERTY TO WM TURNER, HUSBAND OF HUGS DAUGHTER MARTHA ANN. HE AND WM TURNER TRADED THE CIBILO CREEK FOR THE KETEMCY CREEK PROPERTY. WM TURNER MOVED HIS FAMILY ONTO THE KETEMCY PROPERTY SOMETIME AFTER OCT. 12, 1860 WHEN HE PURCHASED IT FROM HUGH ALLEN. MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THAT PROPERTY IN THE HANDBOOK OF McCULLOCH COUNTY HISTORY, VOLUME 1 AND PUBLISHED BY: PIONEER BOOK PUBLISHERS. THE ORIGINAL STONE FLOOR OF HUGH'S CABIN CAN STILL BE SEEN TODAY. THE PROPERTY IS NOW CALLED WAU-BAN-SEE. THE ORIGINAL BUILDING BUILT BY WM TURNER IS STILL THERE TODAY AND WAS A HISTORICAL SITE UNTIL CLOSED BY THE PRESENT OWNERS.

Added by JKallman 20 May 2010:
The spring located at this ranch house was a long ago meeting place for Indians.
The name, Wau-Ban-See, is an Indian name meaning "Earth Mirrored in the Water."

texas land title abstract

Grantee: H. F. Fisher; B.Miller
Certificate: 236
Patentee: Hugh Allen, Sr.
Patent Date: 19 May 1860
Acres: 320
District: Bexar
County: McCulloch
File: 5871
Survey/Blk/Tsp: 378
Patent #: 102
Patent Volume: 30
Class: Bex. 3rd.

TAKEN FROM TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS 1846-1859, pgs. 308-309-310

No 203 LETTER FROM HUGH ALLEN TO Hdated NOV. 21, 1858

SAN SABA RIVER BELKNAP CROSSING 18 MILES NORTH OF FT. MASON, TEXAS

GOV RUNNELS MY DEAR SIR

I WISH TO INFORM YOU THE CONDITION THAT I AM PLAICED (PLACED) IN ON THE ACCOUNT OF NO PROTECTION NOR SECURITY OF LIFE OR PROPERTY. I HAVE LIVED 20 YEARSE ON THE FRONTEERS OF TEXAS AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I EVER MARKED PAPER ON THE ACCOUNT OF INDIANS DEPREDATION, BUT THO TROUBLED OFTEN BY THEM LAST MARCH THE 27 AT LATE DUSK MY SONE WAS SHOT WITH AN ARROW SLIGHTY IN ONE MILE OF MY HOUSE THAT KNIGHT AT 12oc I REPORTED TO MAJOR THOMAS COMMANDER AT FT. MASON REQUESTED MEN TO BE AT MY HOUSE BY SUNRIZE NEXT MORNING HTE DISTANCE OF 18 MILES AT 12oc SARGENT NcNELTY CAME WITH 10 MEN WENT TO THE SAN SABA RIVER IN 400 YARDS IOF THE PLACE THE DEPRECATION WAS COMMITTED THEARE THEY FISHED AND WALLOWED ABOUT INTIL PAST 2oc THEN THEY WENT TO THE PLAICE THARE WE FOUND THREE ARROWS SHOT INTO A LOG MOCKESON TRACKS AND HORSE TRACKS THEY THEN FOLLOWED THE TRAIL ABOUT 2 MILES AND RETURNED BACK AND THERE CAME A RAIN THEY THEN RETURNED TO FT. MASON AND I UNDERSTAND REPORTED THEY FOLLOWED THE TRAIL 15 MILES AND THE RAIN DESTROYED THE TRAIL THAT WAS PARTE OF G. COMPANY 2CAY

AND ON THE 27 OF

OCT LAST THE INDIANS CAME AND STOLE THE LAST HORSE WE HAD AND KILLED WHAT BEEF THEY WANTED AND DROVE OFF THE NEXT MORNING I SENT MY SONE TO FT. MASON LIEUTENANT SHAFFER OF B COMP WAS IN COMMAND HE SAID TO MY SONE THAT IT WAS NOT THE INDIANS IT WAS WHITE MEN SO RECEIVED NO HELP THREE DAYS AFTERWARDS A GOVERNMENT TRAIN COMING FROM FT. CHADBOURNE CAME WITH WHITE BLANKETS LIKE THE RESERVE INDIANS GETS OF GOVERNMENT THE REASON THE CITISONS DO NOT CALL ON THE MILITARY FORCES WHEN THEY CALL THEY ARE HERD AND HERD NO GOOD IS DONE THE REPORT OF MANY TO THE WAR DEPARTMENT TTHAT IT IS WHITE MEN HAS COST MANEY A WOMAN AND CHILDS LIFE AND NOW THE WOODSARE FULL OF INDIANS SINE IN ONE MILE OF MY HOUSE I DARE NOT TO LEAVE MY HOUSE TO DO ONE MILE ON ANEY BUSINESS FOR FEAR MY FAMILELY IS MURDERED BEFORE I CAN GET BACK I PAY MY TAXES AS OTHER CITISONS FOR PROTECTION AND HAS GAILED TO GET IT NOW MY DESR SIRL CALL ON YOU FOR SOME PROTECTION IN SOME WAY THE IDEY OF WAITING INTIL WE SEE WHAT EFECT THIS LARGECAMPEIGN WILL HAVE I THINK EVER SINCE VAN DORN ROUTED THEM AND DISMOUNTED SO MANEY THEY HAVE BIN DOWN TO GET MORE HORSES AND I THINK HE WILL DRIVE THEM DOWN ON US SO NO MORE AT PRESENT BUT TEMAINS YOURS, ETC HUGH ALLEN SEN ENDORSED HUGH ALLEN NOVR 21

IN APRIL 1859 HUGH MOVED HIS FAMILY BACK TO CIBILO CREEK. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SOLD THAT PROPERTY TO WM TURNER, HUSBAND OF HUGS DAUGHTER MARTHA ANN. HE AND WM TURNER TRADED THE CIBILO CREEK FOR THE KETEMCY CREEK PROPERTY. WM TURNER MOVED HIS FAMILY ONTO THE KETEMCY PROPERTY SOMETIME AFTER OCT. 12, 1860 WHEN HE PURCHASED IT FROM HUGH ALLEN. MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THAT PROPERTY IN THE HANDBOOK OF McCULLOCH COUNTY HISTORY, VOLUME 1 AND PUBLISHED BY: PIONEER BOOK PUBLISHERS. THE ORIGINAL STONE FLOOR OF HUGH'S CABIN CAN STILL BE SEEN TODAY. THE PROPERTY IS NOW CALLED WAU-BAN-SEE. THE ORIGINAL BUILDING BUILT BY WM TURNER IS STILL THERE TODAY AND WAS A HISTORICAL SITE UNTIL CLOSED BY THE PRESENT OWNERS.

Added by JKallman 20 May 2010:
The spring located at this ranch house was a long ago meeting place for Indians.
The name, Wau-Ban-See, is an Indian name meaning "Earth Mirrored in the Water."

Hugh Allen received a land grant in Red River Co, Texas-1200 or 1600 acres, situated in Titus and Cass Counties. He came to Texas in 1838 with his wife, 2 sons and 5 daughters and lived in Bexar Co, Texas in 1847 on Cibilos Creek, 2 miles from Selma, Texas. Hugh was the first white settler in the Katemcy Creek area (McCulloch County). For a living, he hunted, killed and skinned the Texas Longhorn cattle.

Son of Hezekiah Allen and Martha Lawson. He married Caroline Matilda Frazier around 1820 in Tennessee. He next married Elizabeth Mescal,12/11/1870 in Burnet County, Texas,
then Mary Edwards, 01/13/1878 in Burnet County, Texas.