The origins of our Allen family begin in eastern Tennessee in the early 1800's. Our first known ancestor is John Allen born in Tennessee in 1835. He married Martha Elizabeth Thomason, who already had one son named William Valentine Severe, called "Tine", and lived in Cocke County. A son James Aroony Burgundy, later called "Judd" was born in 1859. He enlisted in the Civil War while Elizabeth was pregnant with their daughter, Mary Elizabeth and died before she was born.
John Allen enlisted in the army of the Confederate States of America on May 28, 1862 at Knoxville, Tennessee at the age of 24. He was a private in Company "C" of the 26th Tennessee Infantry, but served only six months. John Allen died of malaria in a hospital in Cleveland, Tennessee on November 24, 1862. |
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After the war Elizabeth Allen and her three children joined a wagon train with her brother's and sister's family and several other families in the Cocke County area to travel to Texas. |
The Allens first settled near McKinney in Collin County, Texas in 1870. There in 1873 Elizabeth Allen married another Confederate soldier from Cocke County, Tennessee, Thomas S. Carrier.
In 1878 Tine Allen, James Arooney "Judd" Allen, and a brother-in-law, Eugene Sue Mosaly bought land west of Keller, Texas in Tarrant County and began to raise cattle.
On October 23, 1881 Judd married Sarah Tranquilla Carolina Mosaly, a former neighbor in Tennessee that came on the same wagon train as the Allens. Judd Allen bought 880 acres of land west of Keller, Texas. He cultivated part of the land in wheat, corn and cotton, and had pastureland for his sheep and cattle.
Index of Family Names |
Allied Families |
Albrit Wallace |
Gilbert |
Annie Laurie |
Howell |
Benjamin Whitten |
Moore |
Betty |
Mosaly/Moseley |
Charles Floyd |
Thomason/Thomasson |
Charley |
Earl |
Earnest Leston |
Eddie Wayne |
Edward Samuel |
Eugene Sue |
Flora Vermont |
Florence Mae |
Frank |
Franklin Gilbert |
George |
George Richard |
Gilbert Clifford "Jack" |
Gilbert Wayne |
Gwyn Carol |
Hamilton |
Isaac Sumner |
James Arena "Jake" |
James Arooney Burgundy "Judd" |
James Clarence |
James Roy |
John |
John David |
John Freddie |
Lizzie Etta Jane |
Lula Myrtle |
Mary |
Mary Elizabeth |
Mary Virginia |
Mary Willie Cristle |
Melissa Lillie May |
Norma Ailene |
Patsy |
Roena |
Sarah Donnie |
Susan |
William |
William Loyd |
William Valentine Severe |
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Please e-mail if you have any of these Allens in your family tree. I will be happy to exchange information. |
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Allen Pedigree |
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John Allen Family Group Sheet |
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James Arooney Burgundy Allen Family Group Sheet |
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James Arooney Burgundy Allen |
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Inventory of James Arooney Burgundy Allen Estate |
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Judd and Sarah Allen |
Annie Laurie Allen |
Judd Allen Homestead |
Annie and Willie Allen |
Etta Jane Allen |
James Roy Allen |
Marion and Mary Willie Christle |
Roy and Ellie Allen |
Clarence and Lula Myrtle |
Sarah Donnie Allen |
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George, Earnest and Jake Allen |
Roy Allen Family, 1950 |
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