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