E-book history of the Allen family by Maud Bliss Allen

Samuel Allin (1756-1841), Revolutionary War soldier of North Carolina and Kentucky : a record of his many descendants, 1756-1960
by Maud Bliss Allen


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Lewis Allen biography

[With many thanks to Josephine Brinkerhoff Johnson and JoAnn Johnson Hadden, authors of Roots That Nourish Us: Ancestors of Joseph Brinkerhoff and Phoebe Allen, which this biography is based upon]

LEWIS ALLEN, son of Rial Allen and Margaret (Peggy) Evans, was born 11 June 1813 in Somerset, Pulasky County, Kentucky. His family moved to Calloway County, Kentucky about 1828, when Lewis was about 15. When he was 23, Lewis Allen married Elizabeth Alexander (1 March 1819 Union County, South Carolina - 23 March 1869 West Point, Lincoln County, Nevada), daughter of Jonathan Alexander and Tabitha Nix, in Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri.

Their first child, Tabitha Jane Allen, was born in Far West in 1838, after which they moved back to Calloway County, Kentucky, where their second child, Beulah Ann Allen, was born on 24 May 1840. The family continued to live In Calloway County through 1846, except for a brief period in 1844-45 when they lived in Henry County, Tennessee.

Samuel Allen and Rial Allen by Maud Bliss Allen

SAMUEL ALLEN was born "Under the shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains in that"--I am starting this from memory but will refer to grandfather Andrew Jackson's own words in his Journal.  "Andrew J. Allen's grandfather, Samuel Allen was born under the Blue Ridge the side of which is blue in the evening light.  He was born in a wild land, of game, forests, and rushing waters.  Here on the ford of a creek that runs into a roaming river is a cabin that was chinked with red mud.  He came into the world a subject of King George III in that part of the realm know as the province of No Cai, but was of English and Irish descent so far as we have been able to learn."  This is the exact quotation from Andrew Jackson's record.  "My father said his grandfather was of Irish nationality and his grandmother's surnames was ---- Warren.  I did not remember their given names.  From Granddaughter 75 years of age with perfect memory and faculties, Mrs. Eliza Frazure, "I have often heard my father say his grandmother was an Irish woman through and through."

RIAL ALLEN was the third child, second son of Samuel and Nancy (Easter) Allen.  He was born in North Carolina, probably in Orange County as Samuel Allen's war record says he (Samuel) was married in Orange County, N.C., although he enlisted in Bedford Co., Va.  The record of Andrew Jackson Allen, written by himself, says that Rial Allen was born in N.C. in 1791.  It would appear that a son ought to know the year of birth of his father, however, if this is correct, his wife, Margaret Moore Evins was seven years his senior as she was born in 1784 in Knox Co., Tenn., and James Allen his first child was born in 1807.  SO if the date 1791 is correct he certainly married very young, James being born when he was 16 years of age.

Rial Allen's house

Rial Allen headstone

White Cemetery (Rhoades) 

Andrew County, Missouri

Rial Allen notes by Steven Bodily

Rial's birth date is uncertain. If you subtract from the headstone inscription it puts his birth on Feb. 17, 1789. My family group sheet says 1791, no date. The LDS Family Search has several dates. Sep. 19,1791; Sep. 29,1791 and the years 1780, 1783,1785. Thanks to Theron Dowell for originally posting Rial's burial at White Cemetery. 

Supersticious?

Rial bought a place some two miles from the original place of his father’s, and here his children were born. The home of Rial Allen was made of logs. This house was on a hill but he moved it down by the river, and after it was moved, he sawed off all the eaves so that the witches would not molest him for it’s removal. The house was one of the finest homes there at the time it was built. It was made of logs with a window on each side of the fireplace, as was the style at that period. Years later it was weather boarded and made to look more modern, and the eaves were again built out.

Rial Allen history by Maud Bliss Allen

Rial Allen

by Maud Bliss Allen

born in 1791, son of Samuel Allen and Nancy Easter
died 26 September 1865, buried at St. Joseph, Missouri

Rial Allen was born in 1791, the son of Samuel Allen and Nancy Easter. Part of his boyhood was spent in South Carolina in Chester County, the home of the Easters. When Rial was 13 years of age, his father Samuel Allen, with the Adams, Easters, Warrens and others left Chester county, So. Carolina and traveled north to Kentucky to make their home. The reason for this migration was the desire to follow the game to the north. Game was getting scarce in the Carolina’s and the early pioneers of that time depended greatly upon the deer and other wild game for their livelihood, began to follow it toward the north where the woods were more dense and their quest more plentiful. Here Samuel Allen built a home in a beautiful valley where Rial and his sister and brothers were reared.