Early Residents

EARLY A. ALLEN (died, 1872) married Mary Morrison in Ocala. War Department records showed that Early A. Allen, private, Company C, 9th Florida Infantry, Confederate States Army, enlisted June 21, 1862. The last record found showed him absent sick in a hospital at Richmond. He was discharged in October 1864. The 1870 Hernando County census shows him age 38, wife Mary age 32. Others in the household were Lucy A., 17; Florida, 15; John, 13; William, 9; Charles, 7; Walter, 3; illegible, 1. Early Allen died on July 14, 1872, at his home in Hernando County. According to great grandson Zack C. Waters, "He was shot in the chest at Cold Harbor. He lived three years but the wound never healed - so I always say he may have been the last Cold Harbor casualty. I think there were several of those Allen boys in Capt. Hope's Co." In her Civil War Widow's Pension Application dated Nov. 5, 1903, Mary was shown as 67

Name: John Earl ALLEN Sex: M Birth: 4 MAR 1805 in GA Death: 13 SEP 1888 in Crystal River, Citrus Co., FL

Marriage 1 Lucy Thomas Bobbett ANDERSON b: ABT 1809
Married: 23 NOV 1824 in Gray Jones Co., GA
Children
Early Alexander ALLEN b: 26 SEP in Pike Co. Al
Andaline Susan Thomas ALLEN b: 28 AUG 1825
Eason William ALLEN b: 1827 in Pike Co. Al
Permilla H.L. ALLEN b: 30 DEC 1829 in Pike Co. Al
Mary Ann ALLEN b: 1832 in Pike Co. Al
Loduskie ALLEN b: 1837 in Pike Co. Al
Fadria Amanda ALLEN b: 1841 in Pike Co. Al

Marriage 2 Elizabeth Conover RIDNAUGHT b: ABT 1809
Married: 28 AUG 1851 in Alacula Co., FL
Contributed by Norita Moss

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