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166 ALEXANDER ALLISON, OF NASHVILLE, TENN.
CHILDREN, BORN IN PARISH OF LIFFORD, IRELAND.
849. Andrew Allison^ (850), b. Dec. 26, 1775 ; d. at Carthage, Tenn., Sept.
29, 1818. He married Matilda Porter, of Lifford, Ireland.
He was born
850. Andrew Allison ^
[849] (Andrew ^
).
in the parish of Lifford, county of Donegal, Ireland, Dec. 26,
of Alexan-
1775. He married, about 1798, Matilda, daughter
der Porter, of Churchminster, near Ballandreat, parish of
Lifford, Ireland ; who was some six years his junior. It is to
be presumed that Mr. Allison was not fully satisfied with his
home locality, nor with the prospect of reaping great harvests
from the rocky and sterile soil of Lifford, for in his young
manhood, somewhere about 1802, he settled in Hartsville,
Tenn. He died at Carthage, Tenn., Sept. 29, 1818. He
was a merchant. He organized the first lodge of Masons in
that section, and was master of the lodge at his death.
CHILDREN.
851. Alexander Allison,' b. in Lifford, Ireland, about 1800. Res. Nashville,
Tenn., where he was a successful wholesale dry goods merchant,
and was prominent in all its public enterprises. For three terms
he was mayor of that city, and d. in 1862, leaving no issue. He
m., in 1824, Cynthia Hart, daughter of James Hart. Alexander
Allison, after the death of liis wife, Cynthia Hart, m. Madeline
Allcom. He had one son, by his first wife, who was killed at
the battle of Monterey, Mexico, and one son by his last wife,
who d. about 1845. Mrs. Allison d. about 1878.
852. Andrew Allison «
(855), b. in Hartsville, Tenn., Sept. 24, 1805; d. in
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 24, 1860. He m. Rebecca Greer Allen in
1832.
married Andrew Allison, and in 1798 (see his record). His son, Rev. James
Porter, a Pi-esbyterian clergyman, distinguished for his learning, ability,
and zeal, was a'patriot in the troubles of 1798, and was condemned to an
ignominious death, and executed before his church door by the unjust
decision of a court-martial. His two sons were cared for by his uncle in
Tennessee. One became an able jurist in Louisiana. The other sons of
Mr. Porter, of Lifford, were Alexander Porter, Robert Porter, and William
Porter, who came to the United States in August, 1798, with their sister,
Mrs. Andrew Allison. Alexander first settled in Wilmington, Del., and
finally in Nashville, Tenn., and was a successful merchant. He d. of
Asiatic cholera, at Dresden, Tenn., in April, 1833. His wife was Susan
Massingill, of East Tennessee. Their son, Dr. James Armstrong Porter,
was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1800; married Sally Ann Murphy. Resided
at Nashville, where he died in 1853. He was a man of distinguished
ability, and held a professorship in tlie university at Nashville. His son,
Alexander James Porter, was born in Nashville, Tenn., June 6, 1822,
residence, Nashville, where he died Feb. 11, 1888. He married Martha
Watson. Their daughter, Mary Amanda Porter, b. Jan. 14, 1851, m.
Joseph Webster Allison, her relative, June 12, 1872 (see his record), their
marriage thus reuniting the branches of this family in the fourth and
fiftli generations. Their son, Alexander Porter Allison, born Memphis,
Tenn., July 13, 1876, revives the name and blood of the common ancestor
of his parents in Ireland, who died more than a hundred years before.