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Re: Allen - Crenshaw

tasimmo  (View posts) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 1:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
I will check Dan Crumpton's book on Warren County burials and get back to you.

The DAR have a web site - there is an online query feature on the site. You might try that, as well.

Tom Simmons
USGENWEB
Warren County, Georgia Coordinator

Re: Allen - Crenshaw

lblynn  (View posts) Posted: 17 Aug 2009 1:44AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: ALLEN
Crumpton's Vol I only lists Elisha as a Rev War soldier. No other info is printed. Also says that this came from DAR and other records.

Crumpton's 1987 grave inventory does not indicate Elisha. All of the RS graves that I am familiar with in that area are on private land in small family plots and not church cemeteries. Look for land deeds and find where he lived. A family plot on that land will be the most probable location.

The Probate Court should be the place to find "Inventoried & Appraisals 1823-1830". Elisha's estate is memtioned first on 6JAN1825 and a year later when it sold. The location may be there.

First mention I find of Elisha Allen's death is on 8NOV1824. Minutes of the Court of Ordinary 1817-1827 and Ordinary Returns 1803-1833.

Several Allen's attended Oak Spring Academy in 1859 according to Crumpton's records copied from the "Poor School Fund" page 50, including Wm. H., Thomas U., GS, Jr., Benjamin, Elizabeth C., Lucelia, Martha S. while Elisha was the teacher. This name confuses me since Oak GROVE Academy was located on the road that ran south from Double Wells. That is the area where I expect the Allen's to have lived. Double Wells was a stage coach station and when the railroad built a depot less than a mile away, the area became know as Barnett. I've never heard of Oak SPRING Academy.

Jury records from 1876 put Elisha in District 159. This was known as the Redlick District before it was numbered. From what I have learned, it extends from the Barnett area south toward Mayfield along the Ogeechee River.

Marriage records indicate an Elisha Allen and Mary A. Beckwith were married 30MAR1837.

Contact me when yo know you will be coming down. I may be able to meet you.

Re: Allen - Crenshaw

jenningg  (View posts) Posted: 17 Aug 2009 5:40PM GMT
Classification: Query
I did send a message to the DAR site and someone emailed me back with a name and number but so far I have not been able to connect. I had left and message and received no call back, and had also tried a few more times to see if I could find someone home/available. Is there anyone else that would have information about where he may be buried?

Re: Allen - Crenshaw

jenningg  (View posts) Posted: 17 Aug 2009 5:43PM GMT
Classification: Query
This information pertains to the son of Joseph Allen, not the Elisha Johnson Allen that I am now searching for. The Elisha Allen I am searching for information on had to have been born somewhere between 1760 and 1775. Probably closer to the 1760 year. I am told he may have been born in Va.

Re: Allen - Crenshaw

lblynn  (View posts) Posted: 17 Aug 2009 11:57PM GMT
Classification: Query
Dan Crumpton did a wonderful job with the cemetery inventory of Warren and nearby counties for his book. If he didn't find Elisha Allen, he's probably not marked. The location of a family cemetery on the old Allen place may be your best assumption.

Dan also used DAR info for his first book. This only lists Elisha by name, but unlike most of the others mentioned, there is no additional information.

Many years ago, US Gov't markers were placed on all the RS graves in that area. Even back then, no one knew where Elisha was buried.

The Warren County Library has a small room with family histories. You might find one that has the Allens mentioned.

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