When Elijah Allison was born in 1802, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Robert Allison IV, was 34 and his mother, Mary McFerran, was 27. He married Catherine Pate about 1825, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Marshall, Alabama, United States in 1840 and Western Division, Walker, Alabama, United States in 1860. He died before 1870, in Franklin, Alabama, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
English and Scottish: patronymic from the Middle English female personal name Alice, Alis (see Allis ) + -son, meaning ‘Alice's son’.
English and Scottish: from the Middle English female personal name Alison, a common pet form of Alice, Alis. See Allis and compare Ellison .
Scottish: in some cases, a late variant of Allanson (see also Allinson ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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