Dr. George Tribble Allen was born in VA, and died near Mansfield, LA on 24 October 1869. He is the son of John Allen and Martha Tribble. John Allen was a member of the PA militia during the revolutionary war, and is the son of either David or Daniel Allen and Mary Schuette or Sheets. George T. Allen married Anne Elizabeth Conly, daughter of George Conly and Elizabeth Wells.

Family tradition states that Dr. George T. Allen was born 10 Feb1792 in KY, but the only census I have found giving his age was the 1860 census, which states that he is 65, and born in VA. All earlier censuses give his birth range as between approximately 1790 and 1800. In later censuses, two of his children consistently give VA as the location of his birth. I believe his dates come from the family Bible of his nephew Rev. Walker M. Allen, which I have yet to locate. Perhaps the location of a copy of this Bible can help sort out the true facts.

Family tradition also states that Dr. George T. Allen is buried at the New Bethany Cumberland Presbyterian Church, DeSoto Parish, LA, which his nephew, Rev. Walker Montecue Allen, founded. This church was moved many years after Dr. Allen’s death and burial, and cannot be located at this time. Only one or two people still living (2004) seem to remember that there was perhaps a few tombstones behind the old church. It is said that he was traveling from TX to MS, stopped to see his nephew, and while there his gun accidentally discharged into his body, resulting in his death a few days later. There is no estate in his name in the DeSoto Parish Courthouse.

Dr. Allen is mentioned in letters from his brother-in-law William E. Conly in 1828 from AL, to his wife’s extended family in SC. There is a marriage on record in Lawrence Co., AL of George T. Allen to Anne E. Conley, which I believe to be the correct people, dated 28 Dec 1820. Anne Elizabeth Conly is the daughter of George Conly and Elizabeth Wells. Anne E. Conly was referred to as "Annie" in a letter from a nephew during the Civil War.

Family tradition states that Anne Elizabeth Conly was born 1801 in Grenada, MS, but this is a misinterpretation of the information compiled by her nephew in the early twentieth century, which states she was "of Grenada, MS" and was born in 1801. The only census I have located which gives her birth location is the 1870 census in Choctaw Co., MS, where she is living with her son, Rev. M. C. Allen. It shows her age as 69, and the location of her birth as SC. Several of her younger siblings also give SC as locations for their birth for other censuses, so she was unquestionably born in SC. Grenada (at that time Yalobusha) Co., MS wasn’t opened up to white settlement until after the 1833 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit. Few whites were settled in the Choctaw and Chickasaw territories, and most were either interpreters or traders. George Conly doesn’t seem to have been either of these, as he clearly operated a cotton plantation and owned many slaves for this purpose both in AL and in MS.

Apparently Dr. Allen had quite a bit of the wanderlust, and traveled from TN, after his marriage, first to IL in 1828, where his son Montecue Cuthbert Allen was born, then to Nacogdoches, TX by 1834, where his daughter Angelina Eva Allen was born, and then settled briefly in Yalobusha Co., MS, where he bought land next to his father-in-law, George Conly, in 1835. Soon after this, he sold this land, and purchased land in Pontotoc Co., MS, where his son, M. C. Allen, ultimately lived for many years. The patents are available at the US BLM site. Although he had land in MS, apparently he frequently traveled between there and TX, and appears in Palestine, Anderson Co., TX by 1845, and is enumerated in the 1860 census there.

After the death of his older brother and then parents, Dr. George T. Allen raised his niece, Martha Jane (b. 2 July 1813 m. Thomas B. Wilson), and nephew, Rev. Walker Montecue Allen. It is through this nephew that many of the facts about Dr. Allen are known. A 1900 Biography of Rev. Walker M. Allen is online at the Cumberland Presbyterian Archives, which mentions Dr. George T. Allen.

In the 1860 Census in Palestine, Anderson Co., TX, Dr. Allen appears (minus his wife Anne Elizabeth Conly), with daughters M. A. T. (Mary) and Elizabeth. In an adjacent household, are Thomas Cuthbertson, with wife Angeline and son Thos. A marriage record exists for Thomas Cuthbertson and Angelina Allen in Palestine dated 9 Aug 1855, so this is obviously his daughter. The Cuthbertson branch of this family reconnects to the Allen branch with the marriage of Eva Cuthbertson (daughter of Angeline Allen) to George Franklin Allen (son of M. C. Allen), resulting in a marriage of first cousins.

Children of George T. Allen and Anne Elizabeth Conly are:

1) Montecue Cuthbert Allen m. 1) Nancy Shettles and 2) Narcissa Dunn

2) Angelina Eva Allen m. Thomas Cuthbertson

I have no additional knowledge of either M. A. T. (Mary) Allen, nor of Elizabeth Allen, except that they appear as purchasers of property in Palestine, Anderson Co., TX, with their sister and brother-in-law, Angeline Eva Allen Cuthberson, and Thomas Cuthbertson.  I have a  much more complete history of the Cuthbertson family available for anyone if they would like more information.

George Allen appears on the 1846 Poll Tax list for Anderson County. (no T. as middle initial, though).

George Allen appears on the 1845 Tax List for Houston Co., parent county of Anderson prior to 1846. (again, no middle initial T.)

In the "Trinity Advocate" paper, published in Palestine, TX, Wed. Oct. 25, 1859, there are the following letters listed as "Dead Letters" in the Post Office on Oct 1, to be claimed by Jan. 1, 1860, or sent to the "dead letter office."

Allen Dr.

Allen N Mrs.

Allen S L

Cuthbertson J D

Cuthbertson C Mrs (listed twice)

Most additional information (Land Deeds, Patents, and Census information) about Dr. George T. Allen and his wife Anne Conly is located on a page of facts about his son Rev. M. C. Allen.