James W. Allen 
James W. was born in 1805 in Campbell,Kentucky. James W.'s father was Hiram Allen and his mother is Mary Ann Susanna Unknown. His paternal grandparents were John Benjamin Allen and Sarah Jane Sommers. He had three brothers and four sisters, named Unknown, John Calhoun, Nesbett, Sarah, Mary, Unknown and Rebecca. He is the third youngest of the eight children.General Notes
Severed in the 2nd Texas Infantry. Story related to Jeannette Scruggs about James William by her grandfather his son Samuel Newton: James W. became ill almost to the point of death and was told he could return home to die. His Wife, Penelope, took a man as a subsitute to the Mississippi River and exchanged him for James W. It was reemered him saying the man who was exchanged was probably a black man who worked for her while James W. was away at war. Penelope took her husband home and nursed him back to health . He would laugh that she was such a good nurse that afeter returning home he gathered my grandfather, Samuel Newton born in 1865. She still has the eye glasses that belonged to re great grand monther, Penelope Allen. Penelope was blind in one eye because while she was playing with her children she got sand in her eye. Without treatment it caused her to loose her sight in that eye.
James W. was captured at Shiloh or Visksburg as a Confederate soldier.
James W. and Elizabeth were married in a religious ceremony on July 17th, 1827 in St. Landry Parrish,Louisana.
They have a son named Samuel Newton.
Sources/Citations
Listed Source: File list of Descendants of Hiram Allen from Walter Belt. July 2003, Family Tree Maker.genealogy.com, Tubbs, Johnston, Allen, etc. Families of Texas, Genealogy Report: Descendants of Benjamin Allen, Betty Vaughn
Listed Source: File list of Descendants of Hiram Allen from Walter Belt. July 2003, Family Tree Maker.genealogy.com, Tubbs, Johnston, Allen, etc. Families of Texas, Genealogy Report: Descendants of Benjamin Allen, Betty Vaughn
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