James Allan

Notes:

Marianne Matkin has a copy of his will. She reports that he was born before 1797 in London, England. Based on the years that his children were SAID to be born, along with the age of his wife, he must have been born considerably before that date.

James married Mary Strickland about 1807. Mary (daughter of Jacob Strickland, II and Priscilla Taylor) was born on 17 Oct 1773 in Guilford County, North Carolina; died on 25 Jan 1815 in Franklin County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Hannah Terrell after 1815. Hannah was born before 1799; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sometimes also shown as Thomas K.

Sharon Holland provided to me some interesting information recently re: Mary Strickland's two marriages:

"5. Mary was born October 17, 1773, and married John Gilbert, brother to William, and settled in Franklin County Georgia where he died. She then married James Allen and moved to Habersham County Georgia where she died leaving 5 Gilbert children named: Bill, Jim, Betsy, John, and Nancy, and three Allen children namely Thomps, Bob, and Henry."

If Mary was married around age 18 had 8 children, averaging one every two years, her children would have been born between 1791 and 1807 in Georgia. I noticed she had one son by James Allen named THOMPS ALLEN.

Could this be the same THOMPSON ALLEN, born ca 22 December 1802 in Elbert County, Georgia, that married Elizabeth WOOLDRIDGE OF Abbeville District, South Carolina and later settled in Sabine County, Texas? Elbert County is near both Franklin County and Habersham County, Georgia. I do not have any information about Thompson Allen's parentage, but it appears that both his birth year and birth location could very easily make him a son of Mary Strickland by her second husband James Allen. Additionally, many of the early settlers of Sabine County, Texas were descendants of the Strickland family. In fact, Lily Ethur Carter estimated at least 60% of the early settlers were Stricklands.

Harriet married Madison Strickland on 13 Nov 1834 in Habersham County, Georgia. Madison (son of Hardy "Devil" Strickland and Priscilla Ann Strickland) was born on 25 Sep 1812 in Georgia; died on 12 Sep 1895 in Jackson County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Memoriam
Thompson Allan

With a sad heart, a long time friend of this true and noble man, pens a few words as a tribute to him whose name appears above. He was an honest man, a gentleman, and a patriot of the highest type, adorning every station he filled, and was honored most by those who knew him best.
He was born in Habersham County, Georgia Board in that part which is now Banks county, on the 20th day of September, 1820, and died on Friday last, the 17th instant, at his home, on the same place where he was born, lacking but two days of being 55 years old.

He received a good high school education, studied law and was admitted to the bar in early manhood, and practiced his profession for several years. He afterwards went to Washington City, where he received the appointment of Chief of the Pre-emption Division of the General Land Office, early in 1856, and remained till the State of Georgia seceded from the Union, when he resigned and came home to cast in his lot with his own people. While at his post, by his fidelity, ability and integrity, he made his desk one of the most important branches of the Land office. It had been neglected and was an annoyance to the chiefs of the Bureau and the Interior Department, because for some time, no one who had been assigned to the duties, had been competent to the discharge thereof.


It was but a few months before Thompson Allan brought order out of the chaos and caused the division to reflect much credit upon the Land Office and the Department. The writer hereof happens to know that the Secretary of the Interior was greatly delighted that he had found one so competent and effecient in a place of so much importance.

After the Confederate government was organized, he was called to occupy a very important post in the treasury department; and when the bureau of taxation was established by the Confederate congress, he was selected as the most competent man that could be found to fill that position. He was appointed commissioner of taxation, and held the office till the close of the war. He discharged his duty with fidelity and with a high sense of justice-giving satisfaction to the government and the country.

He was in a position where a man, by sacrificing honor, could have made thousands upon thousands, but he came home at the close of the war without a dollar, or a cent of assets saved while it was going on.

When Hon. Madison Bell was elected by the republican legislature comptroller general, he tendered Mr. Allan the situation of his assistant in the office, which he accepted, discharging his duty with fidelity till the end of the term for which Maj. Bell was elected. He was a firm uncompromising democrat from his youth, to the day of his death. The situation was tendered him by Maj. Bell, because they had been old personal friends from boyhood, and Maj. B. knew his ability and worth as a business man. He took the situation with a distinct understanding that his political principles were not to be in the least compromised.

His disease was an ulceration of the stomach, from which he has suffered much for several years. His few last days were comparatively free from pain, and he died, surrounded by his wife and children, in perfect peace. His funeral took place on Sunday last. He was buried with Masonic honors by the fraternity, attended by one of the largest concourses of people that ever assembled in Banks County, Georgia Board?u?

?/u?He was a true friend and a true man, of great ability, superior judgement and good sense; but he was modest and unobtrusive, and did not receive that distinction in life which he richly deserved. Peace to his ashes and honor to his memory.

A Friend

Source:

http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.allan/162.2.2.1/mb.ashx

Obituary postd by l. ramirez on 19 July 2005

Notes:

Robert Allan, son of James and Hannah Terrell Allan; Husband of Elizabeth Strange Allan; Father of Alice Hannah, James Thompson, and Sarah Elizabeth Allan; Loyal, faithful brother; State Representative; Military Officer; Mason; Surveyor; Merchant

OBITUARY: ROBERT ALLAN
ALLANDALE, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA
Departed this life, near Manassas Junction, Virginia, on the 14th October, ROBERT ALLAN, aged thirty-seven years and seven months, 2nd Lieutenant of the "Banks County Guards," known as Company A, 2nd Regiment Georgia Volunteers. He died of Typhoid fever, after an illness of thirty-one days. His body was brought to Georgia and interred in the family burying-ground, near the residence of his family, in Banks County. The burial service was performed by the Masonic Fraternity of Phi Delta, with the usual honors. Thus cut down in the prime of life, the Confederate Government has lost a firm and valiant officer ? the State of Georgia, one of the foremost to assert her rights in her Legislative Halls. As one of the first to volunteer in her army, his patriotism shines forth in living light. Banks County has been deprived of one of her best and most useful citizens ? the Masonic Lodge of a worthy and consistent member ? the community of a liberal and public-spirited member ? his family of a kind and affectionate husband, a tender and indulgent father. Well may they mourn their irreparable loss. Doubtless the change is his gain. His firm integrity and spotless character are evidences to us that he has passed to the abode of happy spirits, where wars and disease trouble not. C. S. W. Southern Watchman (Athens, Georgia), November 30, 1861

http://www.footnote.com/page/3356_robert_allan_of_allandale_banks/

Mary married George Eberhart Deadwyler on 22 Feb 1860 in Georgia. George was born on 18 Dec 1835 in Elbert County, Georgia; died on 24 Oct 1909 in Maysville, Jackson County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She married a Mr. Holland.

Harriet married Charles Edward Moore on 1 Apr 1884 in Maysville, Jackson County, Georgia. Charles was born on 8 Jan 1853 in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia; died on 15 Jul 1923 in Maysville, Jackson County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]