Hill Family History

 (last update 11 Mar 2005)

Third Generation

( JOHN BENJAMIN², WILLIAM¹)

Children of John Benjamin Allen and Nancy Day

1. Elizabeth 'Betsie' Allen [13878] was born 12 January 1819 in Louisiana, and died 4 October 1880. She married Jesse Lee Carruth on 22 March 1834 in St Helena Parish, Louisiana, son of William Carruth and Susannah Lee. He was born 5 May 1811 in Louisiana, and died 22 Mar 1893. Jesse was a farmer and in 1850 served as an Assistant U.S. Marshall for St. Helena Parish. In 1859 he purchased 100 acres of land in St. Helena Parish. In 1860 they owned 5 male and 5 female slaves. Jesse is buried in Carruth Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.

Children of Elizabeth Allen and Jesse Carruth are:

1. Nancy A. Carruth, born 8 November 1835, Louisiana; died 4 January 1921; married James Newsom, brother of Henry Newsom; born about 1833, Liverpool, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. Nancy is buried in Carruth Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
2. William Dean Carruth, born 8 January 1838, Louisiana; died March 1909; married Sybill S. [last name unknown], born about 1833, Louisiana.
3. Sarah D. Carruth, born about 1840, Louisiana; married William D. G. Birch, son of John Birch, on 10 July 1855.
4. Dicy C. Carruth, born 26 March 1842 1842, Louisiana; died 18 December 1921, Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.
5. John R. Carruth, born about 1846, Louisiana; married Drucilla [last name unknown], born about 1845, Louisiana.
6. Walter Thomas Carruth, born 9 December 1848, Louisiana; died 29 May 1904; married Darian Pearson, 23 January 1871; born 11 February 1843; died 4 September 1927.
7. Martha S. Carruth, born about 1851, Louisiana; married 1) [first name unknown] Byrd; married 2) William D. G. Birch, son of John Birch; lived in Wesson, Copiah County, Mississippi; married 3) [first name unknown] West, died before 1880.
8. James Allen Carruth, born 13 February 1853, Louisiana; died 25 December 1893; married Aurelia Cecilia Lea; buried in Carruth Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
9. Elizabeth L. Caruth, born about 1855, Louisiana.
10. Jesse C. Carruth, born 24 June 1858, Louisiana; died 21 September 1874; buried in Carruth Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.

Bibliography

• 1850 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, Eastern District, page 205a, Jesse L. Carruth.
• 1852 St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, Succession Papers, 1852, File D4.
• 1859 United States. Bureau of Land Management. Louisiana Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, General Land Office Automated Records Project, 1993
• 1860 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, page 443
• 1860 Slave Schedule, LA, St. Helena Parish, page 1
• 1870 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, Ward 2, page 89a.
• 1880 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, Ward 1, page 394d, Jessee Carruth.
• Family Bible: James Allen Carruth
• *Anna Phillips Speed & Clarence Eddie Speed, Sr., The St. Helena Parish Phillips Family - Descendants of Thomas E. Phillips
• *Smith & Virginia S. Smith, A Story of the Village of Gillsburg in Amite County, Mississippi, Vol. I,  (1979), 208
• *Irene Reid Morris, Thru the Years : Family Record of Ila Venable Brown, page 131

2. Thomas Day 'Tom' Allen [13866] was born 29 March 1823 in Louisiana and died 23 May 1897 in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. He married Martha H. Caruth daughter of Walter Carruth and Elizabeth Wales on 16 March 16 1849 in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. She was born 15 November 1829  in Louisiana and died 6 October 1861 in St. Helena Parish. Thomas then married 2) Mary Jane Pierson on 10 July 1862 in St. Helena Parish. She was born 5 June 1852 in Ireland and died 25 January 1932 in St. Helena Parish. She is said to have come from Ireland to New Orleans and all her people died of yellow fever. Mary was raised in the New Orleans Orphan Asylum for Women and trained to be a teacher.  In 1870 Thomas' nephews, Theophilis and Daniel, sons of William Allen, worked and lived on Thomas' farm. In 1930 Mary lived with her son George and son Thomas and his wife Julia. Thomas and Mary are buried in the Allen Family Cemetery in St. Helena Parish.

Children of Thomas Allen and Martha Carruth are:

1. Nancy Allen, born about 1850, Louisiana.
2. William D. Allen, born about 1852, Louisiana.
3. John Allen, born about 1853, Louisiana.
4. Sarah Jane Allen, born 30 October 1855, Louisiana; died 1 October 1943; married H. Bascom Newsom, 6 December 1871.
5. Matilda Clementine Allen, born about 1858, Louisiana; married Edward Tate Wildblood.
6. Martha Agnes Allen, born 19 February 1860, Louisiana; died 6 May 1881; married William Harvey Day; born 1 August 1854; died 18 May 1901, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
7. Unamed Allen, born 6 October 1861, Louisiana; died October 1861.

Children of Thomas Allen and Mary Pierson are:

8. Thomas James Allen, born 22 April 1863, Louisiana, died 1941; married 1) Miro Elizabeth Lee, 21 December 1888, born 18 December 1864, Louisiana, died 20 January 1901; married 2) Julia Lee, 22 September 1904, born 6 March 1876, Mississippi, died 14 March 1943. All buried in in Center United Methodist Church, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
9. Cora Virginia Allen, born about 1863, Louisiana; died 11 Sep 1952; married William Harvey Day, 17 January 1883, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana; born 1 August 1854; died 18 May 1901, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
10. Emma L. Allen, born 29 August 1866, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana; died 10 September 1889, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana; married John W. Newsom.
11. Mary Ada Allen, born 30 January 1868, Louisiana.
12. Nettie Jemima Allen, born 2 January 1870, Louisiana.
13. Dicey Cross Allen, born 4 October 1871, Louisiana; died 14 April 1957; married Jefferson Davis Venable; both buried in Days United Methodist Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
14. Infant Allen, born 7 December 1873, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana; died 7 December 1873, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
15. Julia Clarisse Allen, born 21 December 1875, Louisiana; married Andrew Jackson Allen; born 13 January 1873, died 27 July 1948. Andrew is buried in Days United Methodist Cemetery, St. Helena Parish Louisiana.
16. Alma Saline Allen, born 25 March 1877, Louisiana; married Dan Klein.
17. Stella Eugenia Allan, born 1 March 1879, Louisiana; died 8 March 1951; married John Keely Zachary.
18. Mary Ella Allen, born 5 May 1881, Louisiana.
19. George Washington Allen, born 8 May 1883, Louisiana, died 31 Jan 1937; buried in Greensburg Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
20. + Jesse Mathew Allen, born 22 June 1886, Louisiana, died 9 October 1965, Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.

Bibliography:

• 1850 Federal Census, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana,
• 1852: St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, Succession Papers, 1852, File D4.
• 1860 Federal Census, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, page 69a
• 1870 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, Ward 1, page 69a, Thomas Allen.
• 1930 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, Ward 2, page 11a, Mary L. J. Allen.
• *Anna Phillips Speed & Clarence Eddie Speed, Sr., The St. Helena Parish Phillips Family - Descendants of Thomas E. Phillips
• *Smith & Virginia S. Smith, A Story of the Village of Gillsburg in Amite County, Mississippi, Vol. I,  (1979), 208
• *Irene Reid Morris, Thru the Years : Family Record of Ila Venable Brown, page 131
• Burials, Allen Family Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
• Burials, Greensburg Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
• Burials, Days United Church Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
• Burials, Center United Church Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana

3. Sarah Ann 'Nancy' Allen [14000] was born 13 December 1826 or 1827  in Louisiana, and died 14 April 1904. She married William Stuart Bates on 10 January 1843 in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. William was a farmer born 13 July 1817 in Louisiana and died 3 July 1874. He served the confederacy during the Civil war enlisting as a Private in Company B of the 4th Louisiana Infantry. Sarah and William are buried in Bates Cemetery, St. Helena Parish Louisiana.

Children of Sarah Allen and William Bates are:

1. Elizabeth J. Bates, born 19 November 1843, Louisiana; died 14 May 1903; married David Taylor Easley.
2. Harvey Day Bates, born 6 November 1846; died 22 June 1909, married Rosalie Strickland.
3. Mary O. Bates, born 27 May 1850, Louisiana; died 15 June 1866; buried in Bates Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
4. Dicey E. Bates, born 11 February 1852, Louisiana; died 6 May 1904; married John Baylis Easley..
5. + Margaret A. Bates; born 26 June 1854; died 2 May 1883; buried Bates Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana; married Obediah H. Tate; buried in Bates Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
6. Nancy Bates, born about 1855, Louisiana
7. William Gordon Bates, born 8 February 1861, Louisiana; died 22 September 1923.

Bibliography:

• 1843 Marriage Records of St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
• 1850 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, Eastern District, page 178a, Wm. S. Bates.
• 1870 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, page 67a.
• 1900 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, Ward 1, page 11a, W. G. Bates.
• *St. Helena Historical Society, St. Helena Parish Cemeteries 1814-1987, (1988).
• *Anna Phillips Speed & Clarence Eddie Speed, Sr., The St. Helena Parish Phillips Family - Descendants of Thomas E. Phillips
• *Smith & Virginia S. Smith, A Story of the Village of Gillsburg in Amite County, Mississippi, Vol. I,  (1979), 208
• *Irene Reid Morris, Thru the Years : Family Record of Ila Venable Brown, page 131
• Burials, Bates Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana

4. William Davis Allen [14144] was born 6 August 1831, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana and died 14 February 1858 in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. He married 1) Laminda Holden on 15 February 1836, daughter of John Holden and Elizabeth Strickland. She was born 1820, and died 1846 in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. He married 2) Lydia M. Dillon after 1846 in Amite County, Mississippi; daughter of Lawrence Dillon and Dicey Miller. She was born 20 November 1823 in Mississippi, and died 21 December 1880 in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. Lydia lived in Greensburg, St. Helena Parish in 1860. At hat time she owned 4 male and 4 female slaves. Lydia is buried in Lea Cemetery, St. Helena Parish.

Children of William Allen and Laminda Holden are:

1. John Holden Allen, born 5 January 1833, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana; died 10 June 1920, Tira, Hopkins County, Texas.
2. Emily Drucilla Allen, born 17 March 1840; died 13 March 1915; married John P. Lee on 9 September 1856, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana; born 5 September 1837, Louisiana, died 28 February 1900; they lived in Greensburg, St. Helena Parish in 1860, Arcola, Tangipahoa Parish in 1880; both buried in Days United Methodist Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
3. Thomas H. Allen, born 2 January 1844, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana; died 18 October 1923, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.

Children of William Allen and Lydia Dillon are:

4. Elizabeth C. Allen, born 7 May 1848; died 13 December 1894; married George W. Fluker on  10 October 1866. They lived in Slaughter, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
5. Dicey D. Allen, born about 1850.
6. William W. Allen, born about 1852, Louisiana; married Maggie [last name unknown].
7. Theophilus D. Allen, born 21 June 1853; died 21 January 1920; married Louvanie Day on 31 December 1874, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana; born 13 October 1857; died 15 August 1927, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
8. Daniel A. Allen, born 16 June 1857; died 3 February 1935; married 1) Josephine [last name unknown] before 1880; married 2) Martha [last name unknown]; born 7 September 1867; died 8 July 1945. David and Martha are buried in Days United Methodist Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
9. + Milcha Allen, born 16 December 1861, Louisiana; died 10 June 1906; married Jasper S. Anglin; born 5 April 1858; died 21 March 1900; both buried in Center United Church Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
10. Maggie Allen, born about 1867, Louisiana.

Bibliography:

• 1850 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, Eastern District, Page 177, Wm. Allen.
• 1852: St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, Succession Papers, 1852, File D4.
• 1860 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, Greensburg, Mrs. Lydia M. Allen.
• 1860 Slave Schedule, LA, St. Helena Parish, page 1, Mrs. Lydia M. Allen.
• 1880 Federal Census, LA, St. Helena Parish, Ward 1, page 386c, Lydia Allen.
• *Smith & Virginia S. Smith, A Story of the Village of Gillsburg in Amite County, Mississippi, Vol. I,  (1979), 208
• *Irene Reid Morris, Thru the Years : Family Record of Ila Venable Brown, page 131
• *Madeleine Martin, More Early Southeast Texas Families, Nortex Press, Quanah, Texas, 1978
• Grave Markers, Lea Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana

Research Notes: The last two children, Milcha and Maggie were born after William's death. Lydia is found in the the 1860 and 1880 census records with no husband so their father is not known.

8. Clementine Allen [13872] was born about 1839 in Bevil District, Republic of Texas. She married William H. Truett on 9 October 1856 in Jasper County, Texas. He was born about 1834 in Mississippi. In 1870 William was a Court Clerk in Jasper County, Arkansas

Child of Clementine Allen and William Truett is:

1. John William Truett, born December 1857 in Texas.

Bibliography

• 1850 Federal Census, TX, Jasper County, page 229a.
• 1856 Marriage Records of Jasper County, Texas, Book MF#1, Page 100.
• 1870 Federal Census, TX, Jasper County, page 533b.
• 1880 Federal Census, TX, Jasper County, page 117c.

Research Notes: The transcription from which the marriage data was taken also lists a Clementine Allen to George W. Traylor on the same date but on page 98.