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164 JOHX CRAIG ALLISON, OF WYTHEVILLE, YA.
and died in Wytheville, Va., June 9, 1882. He died Aug.
31, 1866, in his native county. Their son,
832. John Craig Allison,^ born in Wythe county, Va.,
of William and
Oct. 5, 1828 ; married Minerva, daughter
Jane (Rayburn) Guthrie, of Dublin, Pulaski county, Va.
She was born there Sept. 28, 1831 ; died in Wytheville, Va.,
Jan. 13, 1885. [She was granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth
(Mcintosh) Guthrie, of Maryland. He VN^as born April
2, 1767 ; died in 1840, in Dublin, Va. ; and was grandson of
James Guthrie, born in Ireland, lived in Maryland, who married
Esther Giles, and died in Rockbridge county, Va.] Mr.
Allison married, second, Matilda Ann Sanders, daughter of
Stephen and Mary Craig (Allison) Sanders, born in Wythe
county, Va., Jan. 26, 1840. Mr. Allison was a farmer before
was severely wounded the day General Lee surren-
the war ;
dered. He was elected county treasurer of Wythe count3% Va.,
and served for fourteen years ; residence, Wytheville, Wythe
county, Va. Mrs. Minerva (Guthrie) Allison died a tragic
death by a kerosene explosion. She was true to her Scotch
blood and was proud of her people. A noble Christian
woman, "she died a triumphant Christian death ; her voiceless
lips are sealed in silence by the words, 'I am the resurrection
and the life.' "
CHILDREN.
833. John Lee Allison,* b. Pulaski Co., town of Dublin, Virginia, Sept.
5, 1863. He was educated in the high school at Wytheville,
Va. ; graduated at King college, Bristol, Tenn., at twenty years
of age, and from the Union Theological seminary at Hampden,
Sidney, Prince Edward Co., Va. Is a Presbyterian clergyman,
and is settled over a Presbyterian churcli at Radford City, Va.,
where he resides. He m., Feb. 28, 1888, Laura B. Stanley.
Children, b. at Wytheville, Va. :
834. Mattie Lee Allison,'' b. Aug. 7, 1889.
835. Laura B. McCiure Allison,''' b. Oct. 10, 1890.
ALLISONS OF TENNESSEE AND LOUISIANA.
836. Thomas Allison.^ According to my information, he
was from Philadelphia, Penn., and his forefathers were living
in Pennsylvania before the Revolution. Mr. Allison lived in
South Carolina, then in Smith county, Tenn. He had two
brothers ; one was Samuel Allison, of Carthage, Tenn., who
at different times was a member of the legislature, sheriff,
and clerk of the court for Smith county.
CHILD.
837. Joseph B. Allison" (838), b. May 28, 1800; res. Smith county, Tenn.