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8th Great Grandfather Gislem Gershom Allen and wife Patience "Patty" Snow,
parents of Ananais Allen = Speculation!
Gislem was born on February 10, 1734, in Raritan,
NJ, the child of Ananias Allen and Hannah Hester Allen. He was an
Indian Agent.
Patty is a mystery.
She may have been born in 1739 in Surry County, NC
and lived to 1820.
She may have been "Eli" kidnapped daughter of
American Indian Dragging Canoe or Little Dragging Canoe.
Patience and Gislem married on May 12, 1755,
in Orange County, NC. They had several children, including Squire Allen
(1763) and Ananias Allen (1756).
Appears Squire married Martha Tilda Snow who
is believed to be a kidnapped daughter of Dragging Canoe. a Red Chief or War
Chief of the Western Nation of the Cherokee.
At age 86 Gislem died in Jackson, TN.
Patty appears to have died in 1820 in Jackson, TN.
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7th Great Grandfather Ananais Allen and wife Jane Elizabeth Laxton, parents
of Mary "Polly" Allen
Your 7th Great Grampa Ananias "John" Allen was born in
June 1756 in Orange County NC. He was the son of Gislem Gersham Allen
and Patience ???____. Your 7th Great Gramma Jane Elizabeth Laxton
Allen was born there in September 1757, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Grayson
Laxton of Kings Creek County, British Colonial Virginia . In 1775 John
and Jane married in Wilkes County. They had nine children, including
Mary "Polly" Allen (Mrs. Rippitoe) {See Next Generation}.
In July 1781 Ananias served as a Private under Capt. John
Cleveland in the Wilkes County Regiment during the Revolutionary War.
He was engaged with the British and the Tories at the lands by the Drowning
Creek and Little Pee Dee River. He was discharged in Oct. 1781.
A short 3 month term of service. He did not receive a pension due to
the briefness of his militia service.
In 1823 Ananias bought land in the Huntsville Meridian
section of Alabama. By the 1830 census, he had 11 slaves. The
land he settled on was in Stevenson, an area recently taken from the
Cherokee Indians.
John died 23 Sept. 1840 at the age of 84. His grave
has the following inscription: Pvt. Cleveland's Co, Col. Smith's NC Regt.
Rev War. His grave is located at the Allen Cemetery in Stevenson, AL
and his marker was provided through the DAR.
Unsourced info on Ancestry indicates that his wife, Jane,
died on the 22nd of September, one day before Ananias died. If this is
true (and they were both living during the 1840 census and were in their
80s), she may well be buried with him at the Allen Cemetery. I can
find no cause of death for either of them. Lifelong loving couples
have been known to die within days of one another and this may be the case
here.
ANCESTRAL DNA
CIRCLE MATCH:
Sophia, who is your 6xGG
Mary Polly Allen's sister, is your 6th Great Grand Aunt.
Your DNA match, brbyler is the same generation as
your Great Grandmother, Mildred LaFaye Pippin who married Bruce Edward
Durham
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6th Great Grandfather John Rippetoe and Wife Mary "Polly" Allen
Mary Polly Allen
John
Rippetoe 
Your 6th GGmother "Polly" was born in 1795 in Wilkes County
NC. Her parents were Ananias "John" Allen and Jane Elizabeth Laxton
Allen.
John Rippetoe was born in 1784 in Burke County NC in the
town of Morgan. His parents were William David and Ruth Ann Antle Rippetoe.
John and Polly married in Adair County, KY on July 20, 1812
when she was 17 and he was 28. After the birth of their 2nd
child, your 5th Great Grandmother Sallie, the family left Kentucky and moved
to Jackson County, TN about 5 miles from Cookeville. John was still working
on his farm at age 87 and he died after the June 1880 census, meaning that
he was 96 years of age or older at his death! Polly was 64 when she
passed away in 1859. She and John are buried at the William Rippetoe
Graveyard in Cookeville, Putnam County, TN.
Their children were:
Emily (Mrs. Bullington) born 1813
Sarah "Sally" (Mrs. Laycock) {see next generation}
Celia Ann (Mrs. Roberts) who married Rev. Joseph Porter Roberts
William Alexander who married Sophia Buck
Wilson Law who married Cornelia Jane Allison
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5th Great Grandfather Thomas Laycock and Wife Sarah "Sallie" Rippetoe
Laycock
On the Laycock side of your heritage, Thomas Laycock was
born in 1819 in Orange, NC and he died after June 1880 census. Little
is really known about his life, as far as I can find. He is the son of
Timothy and Polly Warren Laycock.
Your 4th GGmother Sallie was born in 1819 also, but in
Adair, Kentucky. She died in 1862 in TN. Sallie's dad was John
Rippetoe, who lived to be 96 years old and her mom was Mary "Polly" Allen.
Thomas was a miller and a farmer and they owned their land.
Their children were all born in TN, including Celia who is your 4th Great
Grandmother.
DNA
CIRCLE
MATCHES:
4th Great Grandmother
CELIA EMMALINE LAYCOCK and husband RICHARD FREELON PIPPIN
Your 4th Great Granddad was Richard Freelon Pippin, born on
March 1, 1837 in Jackson County, TN. When Richard was born his dad
Lewis was age 31 and mom Jane 30. Richard married three times! Celia
was his first wife. Note: His other two wives were Amanda
Jane Huddleston and Sarah M. Bohannon.
4th Great Grandmom Celia was born a few days after
Christmas, on December 30 in 1838 TN. Whereas Richard was born to
parents in their 30s, Celia's parents Thomas and Sarah were both just 19.
When the Civil War was brewing, your 4th GGdad Richard was a
Confederate Soldier - Private then Corporal - in Company B, 28th TN Infantry
in which he enlisted on
September
7, 1861 at Camp Zollicoffer, TN. This company was also called the "2nd
Tennessee Mountain Volunteers." Although he was never officially
discharged, he was forced to leave his command at Tullahoma TN on the
22nd or 23rd of July 1863, after almost two years of battle. He did receive
a pension (application #7653). Interestingly, Richard was cut off from his
command at Tullahoma and was forced to hide in some bushes for several days
while quite a number of the Union enemy passed by. He and Capt. A. C.
Pippin managed to get home, but they were unable to get through to rejoin
their men. Richard did suffer and die from kidney disease which began while
serving in the Civil War while in Kentucky.
http://www.tngenes.info/military/cw/pccsa/s07653.pdf
Your 4th GGrandparents were Christian members of the local
Freewill Baptist Church for about 35 years. Despite this, Richard
owned a distillery and a farm located
on Pippin Road, 1 mile NW of Cookeville, TN. His distillery was registered
for distilling and, of course, for tax collection purposes: Registered
Distillery No. 488 in the 5th District of TN. He granted his son John
W. Pippin permission to use this real estate. Wonder if they distilled
handmade sour mash Tennessee whiskey?
Richard and Celia had married in 1857 in Putnam County, TN.
Their last child together was Celia Ann Pippin born January 22, 1881, the
same day that her mother died while giving childbirth. She was just 42
years of age. Sad.
Richard died on June 20, 1913 in Putnam Cou
nty,
TN at the age of 76 after a long and failing health battle of 3 yrs and 7
mos.
They are buried in William "Plunk Whitson Cemetery in Double
Springs, TN. The cemetery was original the Lewis Pippin Family Burying
Ground for members of Lewis' family. Eventually the Whitson family
acquired the land and changed the name.
