Parents: Robert Allison & Susan Smith

Occ: Row crop farmer
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Parents of Clay Allison, a noted old west gun fighter. Memorials #7940776 & #18783891 Sources: Carl W. Bretham, Great Gunfighters of the West (San Antonio: Naylor, 1962). Norman Cleaveland, Colfax County's Chronic Murder Mystery (Santa Fe: Rydal, 1977). J. Frank Dobie, "Clay Allison of the Washita," Frontier Times, February 1943. Chuck Parsons, Clay Allison: Portrait of a Shootist (Seagraves, Texas: Pioneer, 1983). Richard C. Sandoval, "Clay Allison's Cimarron," New Mexico Magazine, March–April 1974. F. Stanley [Stanley F. L. Crocchiola], Clay Allison (Denver: World, 1956). Buried in Pecos Cemetery in 1877. On August 28, 1975, in a special ceremony, his remains were reinterred in Pecos Park TX, just west of the Pecos TX Museum.
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1850 census, Dist 14, Wayne Co TN:
J T Allenson 38 TN, M R Allenson 36 TN, T E Allenson 15 TN, J A Allenson 11 TN, R A C Allenson 9 TN, J M Allenson 6 TN, T A Allenson 3 TN, E L Allenson 1 TN.

1860 census, Dist 14, (Clifton), Wayne Co TN:
J S Allison 50 TN, Mariah Allison 47 TN, Robert (Clay) Allison 18 TN, Jeremiah M Allison 16 TN, Salah A Allison 13 TN, Emily J Allison 10 TN, Sarah F Allison 8 TN, John W Allison 6 TN.

children:
1. Susan E Allison b. 15 Nov 1834-1866
2. Jesse Alonzo Allison b. 27 Jan 1839-1904
3. Robert Clay Allison b. 2 Sep 1841-1887 m. Patti Dora McCollough
4. Jeremiah Monroe Allison b. 28 Mar 1844-1887
5. Saluda Ann M Allison b. 25 Dec 1846-1931 m. Louis G Coleman and moved to Hemphill Co Texas, d. Kansas City MO #96321023
6. T A Allison b. 1847
7. Emily L Allison b. 20 May 1849-1933
8. Sarah F Allison b. 5 Jan 1852-1933
9. John W Allison b. 30 Apr 1854-1898 m. Bettie Catherine McCullough, lived in Reeve Co TX