Thomas P. Allison Thomas Pinkney Allison was born July 7, 1831. His early life was on the old Allison plantation on Clarks Fork Creek in western York County, South Carolina where he was born. Thomas is the fourth generation of Hugh Allison, Sr. who was born in 1714. Hugh came from Scotland at the age of 22. He landed in America September 13, 1736. Hugh settled in Harford County, South Carolina where they farmed their land and had seven children. Hugh willed his plantation to his son Robert Allison ESQ., which he passed to his son, Dr. Robert Turner Allison, one of seven children. Thomas Pinkney Allison is the second of seven children of Dr. Robert Allison and Martha Burnett Clinton. Thomas married Martha Ann Meek November 11, 1858. They moved to Arkansas in 1860 and settled in Johnsville on the Snake River and engaged in farming. Thomas entered the Confederate service in 1862 joining Cleburn's Division of Hardees Corps. He fought in four battles. Families 821 He took part in operations against Federal gun boat on the Tennessee River toward the close of the war. Thomas was severely wounded in the arm. He returned to his farm at Johnsville after the war. They sold out in the fall of 1876 and moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas. Thomas bought another farm in the fall of 1877 at Cane Hill, Arkansas. He lived there and farmed until his death February 21, 1897. His grave is marked at the Cane Hill Cemetery. Martha, his wife, died September 23, 1885, twelve years before her husband. She is also buried at the Cane Hill Cemetery. Thomas had nine children, two of them were born native of Washington County. James Amzi Allison, born November 18, 1865, was II years old when his father moved to Arkansas. He worked on his father's farm until he married his first wife. James married Fannie Elizabeth Parks on February 17, 1889. Her family owned the Parks Corner General Store and Stagecoach Stop. The house, barn and smokehouse are still standing today. James and Fannie bought a farm at Apple Hill. They had one son, Randall Parks Allison, born February 25, 1899. Randall was 23 when his mother died. She is buried in the Parks Family Cemetery at Parks Corner. James Amzi married again November I, 1925 to Mary Uell Chamberlain. He bought another farm in Lincoln where he and Mary lived. They had no other children. Randall Parks Allison went by R. P. He went to school at Apple Hill. Randall, age 25, two years after his mother's death, married Rixie Crisp in March 1926. He moved back to his father's farm at Apple Hill. They had two sons, James Randall and John Allison. Their mother, Rixie died in the winter of 1932. She is buried near Fayetteville. Randall was a carpenter by trade. He was a perfectionist down to the last nail. Many of the homes he built are still standing. He died December 1976 at 77 years. James Randall Allison, born June 8, 1928 went to Apple Hill School. He married Bonnie Tatum. James served in the U. S. Army. They had four children. David Randall, Shirley Mae, Michael Wayne and Sharon Azzalia. James and Bonnie live on the Parks place that his father left to him. It has been in the Parks family for !59 years. John, born in 1932 married Kathaleen Bartholomew. They had three children. They live in Prairie Grove. Sharon Allison Richina remembers her Grandfather Randall very well. He would tell some of the funniest stories. He had a lot of them. My favorite was the one about the panther that followed him home in the dark along the railroad tracks just when he had our hearts thumping good, he would scare us grandchildren. Of course he would laugh at us. Grandpa always laughed at his own stories, even after the 100th time. As I got older, I would laugh at him laughing. God bless all of our pioneers, who fought bravely from the time they came to this country. Generations that fought battle after battle, war after war for our freedom. By: Sharon Richina