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168 EGBERT ALLISON, OF JACKSON, TENN.
867. James Porter Allison/ b. 1852. He is a druggist; res. Huntsville,
Alabama. He m. Mattie Higins (?) of Huntsville, Ala.
868. Madeline Allison,* m. Mr. Humphreys. She res. with her father in
Lebanon, Tenn. She has one son:
Allison B. Humphreys,^ aged 16 years in 1892.
869. Sallie Allison,* m. H. H. Buckman, a lawyer; res. Jacksonville,
Fla. Three children.
870. Robert Allen Allison ^
Andrew ^
). He was born in Carthage, Smith county, Tenn.,
Nov. 28, 1836. His home was in Lebanon, Tenn., from 1838
-56, in Nashville from 1856-'66 in ; Memphis from 1866-'76 ;
in St. Louis, Mo., from 1876-'81 and ; Jackson, Tenn., from
1881 to the present time. In 1857 he graduated at Cumber-
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land university at Lebanon, Tenn., and the same year entered
his father's store as bookkeeper and cashier ; in 1860 formed
a partnership in the wholesale hat business. After the war,
which had divested him of his property, he opened a cotton
commission house with his brother Alexander as partner, in
Nashville, and was successful ; removed to Memphis, and
with three brothers engaged in the wholesale hardware bus-
iness; and was for a time successful. In 1873 the firm lost
heavily, and he gave up the business later and engaged in
other business in St. Louis. He is now in business, and resides
in Jackson, Tenn., where he is an elder in the First
Presbyterian church. He married, Feb. 14, 1861, Isabel
Kelso, born at Fayetteville, Lincoln county, Tenn., Feb. 1,
1840. She was daughter of Henry and Rebecca (Rutledge)
Kelso. Her father was born Sept., 1818; died June, 1866.
He was a son of Henry Kelso, who was born near Kelso, in
Scotland, who married Ruth Wells of Kentucky, and he died
in 1831, in Lincoln county, Tenn.
CHILDREN.
871. Isabel Kelso Allison,°b. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 29, 1862; m., 1889,
Charles Hunter Raines, a bankei*. They res. in Memphis,
Tenn.
872.
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Anne Dixon Allison, b. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 2, 1867; d. in Jack-
873.
son, Tenn., Feb., 1S82.
Rebekah Rutledge Allison," b. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 28,
Jackson, Tenn.
1871; res.
874. Joseph Webster Allison 4
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He was born in Lebanon, Wilson county, Tenn.,
May 24, 1848. He lived in his native town seven years ; in
Nashville, thirteen years; in Jackson, seven years; and for
fourteen years has been a resident of Memphis, Tenn. The
war interfered with his early opportunities for education.
He attended a boarding school, and upon the occupation of