Allen Family History

 (last update 13 Aug 2004)

Sixth Generation
( THOMAS⁵, THOMAS⁴, HINCHEA³, JOHN², JOHN¹)

Children of Thomas Gilliam and Sally Williamson

 1. ANTHONY GILLIAM [15364] was born about 1783 and died in September 1851 in Williamson County, Tennessee. He married Sarah [last name unknown]. She was born about 1786 and died before 1850. His will was written 3 August 1850 and recorded in October 1851. In it he states that he desires that his "servants, Ned, Henry, Nancy, Dica, Araminta, Charlotte, Ann, Susan, Little Nancy, and Amanda...have one good suit of plain substantial clothing each, in addition to what they may chance after my decease...they shall receive their freedom and be sent to a free state...each of them shall have twenty-five dollars in cash...my old servant woman, Zilla, to be free and maintained out of his estate. The residue of the estate was to be sold and 'placed at interest' to be used to fund the education and maintenance of poor children...of good moral and good natural intellectual faculties and endowments and that promise to make useful citizens and distinguished members in society." Anthony's siblings successfully sued to break this will. Anthony is buried in Williamson County, Tennessee.

Bibliography

• 1850 Federal Census, TN, Williamson County, 6th District, page 171b, Anthony Gillum.

2. MAJOR M. GILLIAM [6873] was born about 1793 in Tennessee, and died between 1860 and 1870. He married MARY GRIMMETT on 4 January 1819 in Jefferson County, Alabama. She was born about 1799 in Tennessee. In 1860 Major's orphaned granddaughter, Maria Gilliam, daughter of Lorenzo Dow Gilliam and Celia Ann Dyer, lived in their household. Mary lived with daughter Margarette and son-inlaw Joel Childers in 1880 in Sherman Township, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Children of MAJOR GILLIAM and MARY GRIMMETT are:

1. LORENZO DOW GILLIAM, died about 1849, Johnson County, Arkansas; m. CELIA ANN DYER, 29 February 1840, McMinn County, Tennessee; b. about 1814, Tennessee, d. between 1850 and 1860.

2. ROBERT GILLIAM, b. about 1825, Tennessee.

3. JOHN GILLIAM, b. about 1829, Tennessee.

4. WILLIAM G. GILLIAM, b. about. 1833, Alabama.; m. NANCY WARREN, daughter of James A. Warren and Margaretta Pelts, 1 Dec 1859, Johnson County, Arkansas; b. about 1846, Arkansas.

5. MARGARETTE GILLIAM, b. about 1835, Alabama.

6. + SARAH GILLIAM, b. about 1836; m. Michael Warren, b. 10 Jul 1825, Greene County, Indiana, d. 3 May 1911, Ozone, Johnson County, Arkansas

7. ISRAEL GILLIAM, b. about 1838, Alabama. Served the Confederacy during the Civil War, enlisting in Co. C of the 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles  at the age of 24; m. Artemisy Poteet, 22 August 1869, Johnson County, Arkansas.

8. MAJOR PINKNEY 'PINK' GILLIAM, b. about 1839, Alabama. Served the Confederacy during the Civil War, enlisting in Co. C of the 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles on 7 Sep 1861 in Clarksville, Arkansas at the age of 23. Died 11 March 1862 on Boston Mountain, Johnson County, Arkansas.

9. ELIZABETH GILLIAM, b. about 1842, Alabama.

Bibliography

• 1819 Alabama Marriages to 1825, "Electronic." Major M. Gillian and Polly Grimett

• 1850 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Spadra Township, page 158a, Major M. Gillian.

• 1850 Marriage Records of Johnson County, Arkansas, Book N. William G. Gillian and Nancy Warren.

• 1860 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Floyd Township, page 984, Major Gillian.

• 1869 Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, compiler, Arkansas Marriages, 1851-1900, ([database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001.), "Electronic."

• 1880 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Sherman Township, page 248d, Joel Childers.

• R. W. Mickel, History of Johnson County Vol I.

• National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, "Electronic."

3. THOMAS EDMOND GILLIAM [6594] was born 7 February 1797 in Southampton County, Virginia, and died 6 March 1877. He married CELIA HARDGRAVE daughter of  JAMES HARDGRAVE and ALMIRA DYER on 2 February 1819 in Williamson County, Tennessee. She was born 2 December 1797 in Tennessee or Lincoln County, Kentucky, and died 27 October 1959. Thomas and Celia migrated to Johnson County, Arkansas in 1837. Thomas and his eldest son James served during the Mexican War in Company A of Colonel William Gray's Battalion. Thomas held the rank of Lieutenant and James that of Sergeant. Their unit left Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas on 3 August 1846 and were stationed at Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma. Thomas received a land grant for this service. In 1856 Thomas purchased 40 acres of land in Johnson County, Arkansas. In 1870 his daughter-in-law Sarah, wife of John D. Gilliam, and most of her children lived with Thomas in Johnson County, Arkansas.

Children of THOMAS GILLIAM and CELIA HARDGRAVE are:

1. ELIZABETH CAROLINE GILLIAM, b. 26 April 1820, Williamson County, Tennessee; d. 8 April; 1874; m. JOSEPH TANISH RING, 5 December 1838, Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas; b. 9 November 1811, Missouri; d. 1860, Fannin County, Texas.

2. JAMES THOMAS GILLIAM, b. 18 December 1822, Williamson County, Tennessee; d. 21 December 1906, Huntington, Sebastian County, Arkansas; m. SARA MIRANDA LASITER, 1 August 1844, Johnson County, Texas.

3. SUSANNAH J. GILLIAM, b. 3 August 1827, Davidson County, Tennessee; d. before 1900; m. MELTIRE ARNOLD KENDALL, 13 February 1856, Johnson County, Arkansas.

4. JOHN D. GILLIAM, b. 3 February 1830, Williamson County, Tennessee; d. 21 November 1867; m. SARAH ELIZABETH VIRDEN, 18 May 1853, Johnson County, Arkansas.

5. MARY ELIZABETH. GILLIAM, b. 28 May 1832, Tennessee; d. 6 November 1929. Never married. In 1870 she lived with her sister Susannah and brother-in-law Meltire Kendall. About 1917 she moved to Stigler, Haskell County, Oklahoma with her niece Bethena Celia [Kendall] Allen. Burial: Kendall Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas.

6. SARAH FRANCIS GILLIAM, born about 1834 in Missouri; died 17 April 1883 in Stephenville, Erath County, Texas.

7. SHELTON LEWIS GILLIAM, b. 3 February 1836, Williamson County, Tennessee; d. 1 February 1888, Johnson County, Arkansas, buried Hardgrave Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas; m. ELIZABETH JAN RATTEREE, 18 November 1855, b. 12 January 1839, Mississippi; d. 1924, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Bibliography

• 1837 Tax List, Arkansas Territory, Johnson County, Thomas E. Gilliam.
• 1838 Tax List, Arkansas Territory, Johnson County, Thomas Gilliam.
• 1839 Tax List, Arkansas Territory, Johnson County, Thomas Gilliam.
• 1850 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Spadra Township, page 163a, Thomas E. Gillam.
• 1870 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Grant Township, page 29a, dwelling 160, Thomas E. Gillum.

6. William A. Gilliam [15367] was born about 1802 in Virginia. He married Eliza A. [last name unknown]. She was born about 1807 in Tennessee.