FLOATER REPRESENTATIVES
GRENADA and MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
MARCELLUS HUTSON ALLEN, of Winona, was born May 9, 1834, in Marion County, Alabama, the son of Francis Asbury Allen and wife, Ruth (Adair) Allen. Paternal ancestors were of English, maternal of Irish descent; his paternal great-grandfather, Charles Allen, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was wounded at the battle of Charleston. He lived to be 107 years old.
Mr. Allen attended the rural schools near Winona, and enrolled in the institution at College Grove, Williamson County, Tenn., but left school in March, 1861, and went home to enter the Confederate Army. He enlisted as a private in Company B, Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment; during the same year became Third Lieutenant of his company; was appointed First Lieutenant at the reorganization of the army; just before the war ended.
Mr. Allen was a merchant from 1865 to 1869, and since then has been a farmer.
He was Mayor of Lodi, Miss., from 1866 to 1874; was elected Floater Representative from Montgomery and Choctaw Counties in 1878, and was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907.
He is a Democrat, a steward in the M. E. Church, South, member of the A. F. and A. M., also of the Royal Arch Masons.
He was married at Winona, Miss., June 24, 1869, to Mary Malvina Evans, daughter of Duncan Evans and Marilda Adline Evans, their family is of Scotch descent. MR. and Mrs. Allen have five children; Francis Albert Allen, of Winona; Mrs. Anna Lou (Allen) Hamer, Winona; William Duncan Allen, of Kilmichael; Marcellus Hutson Allen, Jr., Winona, and John Russell Allen.
Source: Official and statistical register of the state of Mississippi by Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History, Published 1908, p.: 1091, 1092
Bio information courtesy of contributor #47076696
GRENADA and MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
MARCELLUS HUTSON ALLEN, of Winona, was born May 9, 1834, in Marion County, Alabama, the son of Francis Asbury Allen and wife, Ruth (Adair) Allen. Paternal ancestors were of English, maternal of Irish descent; his paternal great-grandfather, Charles Allen, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was wounded at the battle of Charleston. He lived to be 107 years old.
Mr. Allen attended the rural schools near Winona, and enrolled in the institution at College Grove, Williamson County, Tenn., but left school in March, 1861, and went home to enter the Confederate Army. He enlisted as a private in Company B, Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment; during the same year became Third Lieutenant of his company; was appointed First Lieutenant at the reorganization of the army; just before the war ended.
Mr. Allen was a merchant from 1865 to 1869, and since then has been a farmer.
He was Mayor of Lodi, Miss., from 1866 to 1874; was elected Floater Representative from Montgomery and Choctaw Counties in 1878, and was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907.
He is a Democrat, a steward in the M. E. Church, South, member of the A. F. and A. M., also of the Royal Arch Masons.
He was married at Winona, Miss., June 24, 1869, to Mary Malvina Evans, daughter of Duncan Evans and Marilda Adline Evans, their family is of Scotch descent. MR. and Mrs. Allen have five children; Francis Albert Allen, of Winona; Mrs. Anna Lou (Allen) Hamer, Winona; William Duncan Allen, of Kilmichael; Marcellus Hutson Allen, Jr., Winona, and John Russell Allen.
Source: Official and statistical register of the state of Mississippi by Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History, Published 1908, p.: 1091, 1092
Bio information courtesy of contributor #47076696
FLOATER REPRESENTATIVES
GRENADA and MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
MARCELLUS HUTSON ALLEN, of Winona, was born May 9, 1834, in Marion County, Alabama, the son of Francis Asbury Allen and wife, Ruth (Adair) Allen. Paternal ancestors were of English, maternal of Irish descent; his paternal great-grandfather, Charles Allen, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was wounded at the battle of Charleston. He lived to be 107 years old.
Mr. Allen attended the rural schools near Winona, and enrolled in the institution at College Grove, Williamson County, Tenn., but left school in March, 1861, and went home to enter the Confederate Army. He enlisted as a private in Company B, Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment; during the same year became Third Lieutenant of his company; was appointed First Lieutenant at the reorganization of the army; just before the war ended.
Mr. Allen was a merchant from 1865 to 1869, and since then has been a farmer.
He was Mayor of Lodi, Miss., from 1866 to 1874; was elected Floater Representative from Montgomery and Choctaw Counties in 1878, and was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907.
He is a Democrat, a steward in the M. E. Church, South, member of the A. F. and A. M., also of the Royal Arch Masons.
He was married at Winona, Miss., June 24, 1869, to Mary Malvina Evans, daughter of Duncan Evans and Marilda Adline Evans, their family is of Scotch descent. MR. and Mrs. Allen have five children; Francis Albert Allen, of Winona; Mrs. Anna Lou (Allen) Hamer, Winona; William Duncan Allen, of Kilmichael; Marcellus Hutson Allen, Jr., Winona, and John Russell Allen.
Source: Official and statistical register of the state of Mississippi by Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History, Published 1908, p.: 1091, 1092
Bio information courtesy of contributor #47076696
GRENADA and MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
MARCELLUS HUTSON ALLEN, of Winona, was born May 9, 1834, in Marion County, Alabama, the son of Francis Asbury Allen and wife, Ruth (Adair) Allen. Paternal ancestors were of English, maternal of Irish descent; his paternal great-grandfather, Charles Allen, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was wounded at the battle of Charleston. He lived to be 107 years old.
Mr. Allen attended the rural schools near Winona, and enrolled in the institution at College Grove, Williamson County, Tenn., but left school in March, 1861, and went home to enter the Confederate Army. He enlisted as a private in Company B, Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment; during the same year became Third Lieutenant of his company; was appointed First Lieutenant at the reorganization of the army; just before the war ended.
Mr. Allen was a merchant from 1865 to 1869, and since then has been a farmer.
He was Mayor of Lodi, Miss., from 1866 to 1874; was elected Floater Representative from Montgomery and Choctaw Counties in 1878, and was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907.
He is a Democrat, a steward in the M. E. Church, South, member of the A. F. and A. M., also of the Royal Arch Masons.
He was married at Winona, Miss., June 24, 1869, to Mary Malvina Evans, daughter of Duncan Evans and Marilda Adline Evans, their family is of Scotch descent. MR. and Mrs. Allen have five children; Francis Albert Allen, of Winona; Mrs. Anna Lou (Allen) Hamer, Winona; William Duncan Allen, of Kilmichael; Marcellus Hutson Allen, Jr., Winona, and John Russell Allen.
Source: Official and statistical register of the state of Mississippi by Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History, Published 1908, p.: 1091, 1092
Bio information courtesy of contributor #47076696
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