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FISHER ALLISON, OF ELKHORX GROVE,<br />
ILL. 171<br />
889. Lsaac Allison,' b, April 14, 1811.<br />
890. William Allison,' b. Jan. 25, 1813; d, April 27, 1831.<br />
891. Fisher Allison' (895), b. Ang. 13, 1815, at Keswick, Cumberland Co.,<br />
England ;<br />
m. Jane Gelleland Van Buskisk.<br />
892. Sarah Allison,' b. June 10, 1818.<br />
893. Jacob Allison,' b. Dec. 6, 1823,<br />
894. Henry Allison,' b. March 7, 1827; d. July 14, 1831.<br />
He was<br />
895. Fisaer Allison 3<br />
[891] (John, 2<br />
Joseph i).<br />
born in Keswick, Cumberland county, England, Aug. 13,<br />
1815 ; married, Oct, 25, 1837, Jane Gelleland, daughter of Isaac<br />
Van Buskisk. She was born June 7, 1816, in Fairview,<br />
Guernsey county, Ohio, and still lives, in Jan., 1892 ; her<br />
father was born in : Virginia her people were originally from<br />
Holland. He worked upon a farm near Moser, England,<br />
until his 19th year, when he emigrated from Keswick to<br />
Vaughan, a place near Toronto, Canada, in 1835. He removed<br />
to Dixon, 111., in 1840, and on September 6 of that year he<br />
removed to Elkhorn Grove, Carroll county. 111., where he<br />
resided till his death, March 8, 1878, He was chairman of<br />
the board of supervisors of Carroll county. 111,, for a number<br />
of years. In the early days of Carroll county, churches<br />
were few, and ministers regularly installed were scarce. Mr.<br />
Allison often officiated as a local Methodist minister in a<br />
gratuitous manner to appreciative congregations.<br />
He raised<br />
a family of thirteen children. Four of his sons went into<br />
the Union army ; two were killed and another seriously<br />
wounded in the service.<br />
CHILDREN.<br />
896, Joseph Fisher Allison *<br />
(909), born in Toronto, Canada, Oct, 19, 1838;<br />
res. Mount Carroll, Carroll Co., Ill,<br />
897, Henry Allison,* b, Toronto, Can., Feb. 27, 1840. He was a soldier<br />
of the Union army, and was a member of Company K, 15th<br />
regiment, Illinois infantry. He enlisted May 24, 1861. Afterward<br />
he was in railroad employ. His wife died April 20, 1878,<br />
leaving a daughter five years of 898,<br />
age. Mr. Allison is now a carpenter,<br />
and resides at Fort Worth, Texas. He is a member of<br />
the Masonic fraternity, and other orders,<br />
John Huss Allison,' b. at Milledgeville, 111,, Dec, 3, 1841, He was<br />
a soldier of the Union, in Company G, 39th regiment, Illinois<br />
899,<br />
infantry, and was killed at Suffolk, Va., Sept. 15, 1862.<br />
William Allison,* b, at Milledgeville, 111,, July 10, 1843. He was a<br />
member of Company H, 55th regiment, Illinois infantry. He<br />
was not married, and was killed in a railroad accident at Dixon,<br />
111., in March, 1865.<br />
900, Sarah Ann Allison,* b. in a little log cabin, on the prairie at Elkhorn<br />
Grove, 111., March 26, 1845, and remembers vividly all the scenes<br />
and incidents of pioneer life in that then new and undeveloped<br />
country. She was educated at Milledgeville, 111., and at the<br />
seminary at Rock River. Then she commenced a new life as a<br />
school teacher, which occuiJation she followed till her mar-