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ISAAC ALLISON, OF WARWICK, N. Y. 223
were Rev. Mr. Hopkins and his successor. Rev. William Tim- 1
low. The latter often held neighborhood prayer-meetings at
the Allison home. When the pastor came to make a pastoral
call at the Allison home, the dinner horn was blown, calling
the workmen from the fields, that they might be present with
the family at prayers. During the last war with Great Britain,
Mr. Allison was drafted into the service. He served for a
time, and then returned home on account of sickness in the
family, and his place in the army was supplied by his brother,
Nathaniel Allison. The work of his life was well executed.
In the strength of the years of his mature manhood (being in
his forty-eighth year) the summons for his departure came.
When he was dying he called his children to his bedside,
laid his hand lovingly on their foreheads, and upon them
invoked the blessings of God. He married his second cousin,
Sarah, daughter of James and Amy (Knapp) Allison of
Ridgbury, Orange county, N. Y. She was born May 13,
1794. Her father lived on a very large and beautiful
farm, about ten miles from Amity, town of Wawayanda,
Orange county, N. Y. Mrs. Allison was an attractive
woman, of medium stature, light complexioned, with rosy
cheeks, dark hair, and black eyes. She Avas a devout
Christian, generous in her nature and acts, and often ministered
to the necessities of the sick and suffering. A great
bereavement came to her. Within a space of nine days her
husband and her sons, Gabriel and Andrew, were removed by
death. She bravely took up life's burden, looking for strength
to the God of the widow and the fatherless. So carefully
did she train her sons and daughters, that they in mature
years called her blessed. When their own locks were
" whitened with the snow that never melts," tenderly and
lovingly they spoke of her to their children and grandchildren,
gratefully acknowledging her solicitous care during
their childhood and youth.
CHILt)KEN BORN IN THE TOWN OF WARWICK, NEAR AMITY, ORANGE
COUNTY,
N. Y.
1426. Amy K. Allison =(151G), b. April 3, 1813; m. Asa Yail. Ees. 28
Clifton Place, Jersey City, N. J.
1427. James Allison, = b. Dec. 20, 1815; m. Eleanor Pound. He d. near
Amity, X. Y. 'No children.
1428. Nathaniel Allison =
(1529) b. June 30, 1818; m., 1844, Martha F.
Sullinger. Res. Mexico, Mo. Physician.
1429. Isaac William Allison =
(1540), b. Nov. 17, 1820; m. Teresa A. Elmer.
He d. at Chester, N. Y., Doc. 22, 1881.
14.30. LydiaE. Allison,'"' b. July 15, 1823; m., Jan. 14, 1886, David W.
Selleck. He was a farmer. He died June 27, 1893. Ees. Fair
Oaks, N. Y. No children.