Thomas Pickney Allison

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.

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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