Allison Furr (1809-1889) and his brother Tobias (1817-1882) were the progenitors of the north Mississippi Furrs while their great uncle, Leonard Furr (1756-1835) was the progenitor of the south Mississippi Furrs. His brothers Daniel Furr (1811-1876) and John Simpson Furr (1815-1842) also moved to Mississippi. Allison was born Friday, July 7, 1809 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. He was the first born of the 11 children of John Furr (1786-1837) and Sarah "Sally" Boger (1789-1857). Allison went to Mississippi in 1846, but returned to Concord, North Carolina. He went back to Mississippi in two covered wagons in 1848. This time he built a two story house on the land he purchased from the Indians. He farmed and raised his family on this land.

Allison was married four times, twice in North Carolina and twice in Mississippi. He had 13 children, five in North Carolina and eight in Mississippi. Three of his sons fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. His children were a homemaker, farmer, merchant, landlord, city/county official, real estate agent, banker, house painter, and carpenter. Four of his children moved to Texas while the rest remained in Mississippi.

Allison died Monday, July 15, 1889 in Toccopola, Mississippi. He, his first wife, two sons, and two daughters are buried in the Lebanon Cemetery, Lafayette County.

From "Mississippi A Guide to the Magnolia State," compiled and written by the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration, The Viking Press, New York, 1943, page 487:

Toccopola (Ind., the crossing of the Roads), was, before the white man came, an Indian village so old that in the annals of the Chickasaw the date is unknown. In 1840, however, two Carolinians, Tobias and Allison Furr, settled here. Tobias Furr built a water mill on the creek and Allison established a store at the crossing of two roads. Other settlers made home in the vicinity, and eventually the Indian name TOK-A-PULA was corrupted to Toccopola. Immediately following the War between the States, W. B. Gilmer, who was forced by a wound received in the war to forsake farming for school teaching as a profession, establishing Toccopola College, an academy for boys and girls. This college continued operation until 1907. Toccopola's future was shattered when the Gulf, Mobile & Northern R.R. passed it up in preference to Pontotoc, its rival.

On 1 October 1847, Allison Furr purchased 400 acres in Cabarrus County for $50 from William A. Furr, James B. Furr, Samuel M. Furr, Elizabeth C. Biggers, Jacob Shoulabaringer and wife, Mary Ann and Sarah L. Furr (Deed Book 18, page 91).

On 28 September 1850, Allison Furr sold 82 and 1/2 acres in Cabarrus County to William S. Brewer for $600 (Deed Book 18, page 394).

On 10 December 1868, Allison Furr sold 35 acres in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, to Souter and Wood for $105.

On 29, 1877, Representative Vannoy Hartrog Manning presented to the United States House of Representatives "The petitions of Silvia Cannon, Emma Sharpe, James Kennedy, Mrs. M. A. Cochran, Margaret C. Sloan, Solomon McMillican, Allison Furr, and William H. Carothey, of the counties of Union and La Fayette, Mississippi, for compensation for stores and sup- plies taken by the United States Army."