John M. Allison

Buried in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Gibson County, Indiana.

Married after 1830.

Per letter from Iva Mae Cain in 1951to Bessie Barnard:

Mary Jones-Ellis married John Allison, a farmer who had migrted to Indiana from Kentucky. Mother told me they (Allisons) were English and he had a brother Joe Allison. Their father had been an officer in the Revolutionary War, a wagonmaster general. From this mental picture of him that I have, I think your grandfather must have resembled him pretty closely. He had black hair and eyes, was rather stockily built, and had a peculiar walk that Mother said she could always tell by the sound of his step. He set his foot down firmly as though he meant it to stay there. Mary and John were very devoted Methodists and their home was the stopping place of all the Methodist Preachers. They moved from Daviess County to S.W. Indiana, Posey County, I believe.

John Allison and Mary were the parents of 12 children, nine of whom lived to maturity. After they had raised their own family they took the children of a son, Alexander, and cared for them for some time, I don't know how long, also a nephew, Wiley Hobbs. Then they took a little boy named Permenius Ragsdall to raise, but he did not live to be grown. The children who lived to grown, sons and daughters of Mary Jones Ellis Allison were William and David Ellis, Smith Roten Allison, Alexander Allison, Aletha, Jincia, Malinda, Lucinda and my mother, Mary Adeline.