Allee, Francis M. (1844-1906)

ALLEE

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Date: 9/14/2019 at 23:19:22

Francis M. Allee
June 25, 1844 - Feb 17, 1906

[From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.388]
F.M. ALLEE, one of the substantial farmers of Lincoln Twp, was born in Parke Co, Indiana, June 25, 1844 son of LIMUS ALLEE, who was of American birth. His parents were Quakers who came from the North of Ireland at an early day, settling on a farm in Hancock Co, Indiana. LIMUS ALLEE was born in that county but removed to Parke Co, same state, when a young man. He was a carpenter by trade, and was married to SARAH A. WARNER and they had 7 children: F.M., John, William, Mary E., Martha, Susan and Etta. The mother died in Parke Co, from an accident caused by her clothes catching fire. Mr. ALLEE was again married to RUTH HIGGINS and in 1857 moved to Vermillion Co, Illinois, where he bought a farm. He died in 1859; he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and served as Assessor his township. He was a man of sterling integrity and industrious habits. FRANCIS M. ALLEE, our subject, enlisted at the early age of 17 years in the Ninth Indiana Battery and served three years and seven months, or through the war. He was in the battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7 and many skirmishes. He was on the steamer Eclipse at Jonesville, Tennessee, January 25, 1865, when the boiler exploded and he received a severe wound, and was thrown into the river. He served all his time, however, with no hospital record and no other wounds. Mr. Allee was also under ROSECRANS and his corps the Sixteenth, was commanded by General A.J. Smith. They followed General Price, the noted Confederate General, from St Louis across the state of Missouri to Kansas City, where a battle was fought at Big Blue River and thence from Kansas City into Kansas, then back to Glasgow, Missouri, where the army went into camp for election; was in the battle of Nashville. He was honorably discharged at Indianapolis, Indiana, June 26, 1865 being then just 21 years of age. Thus the days of his earliest manhood were spent in the defense of his country. Mr. ALLEE lived on a farm in Parke Co, Indiana, until 1880, when he came to Pottawattamie Co and settled on his present farm of 150 acres of fine land. Socially he is both a Mason and an Odd Fellow and politically is a stanch Democrat. He is serving his second time as Township Trustee. He has descended from old Revolutionary stock, his grandfather having fought in the battles for our independence and he fought to preserve the Union. He was married in Parke Co, Indiana, to NANCY C. WOLFE, daughter of JOSEPH and ELIZABETH WOLFE, and by this marriage there were two children: Preston and May. The former was married to ORA RATCLIFF and settled on a farm in Indiana and had one daughter, Nellie; the latter died in infancy. Mr. ALLEE's first wife died and he was married to MARY E. HUXFORD, nee GRIFFITH, the daughter of WILLIAM R. and EDITH GRIFFITH. The father was born in Belmont Co, Ohio, in 1824 and was the son of MAHLON GRIFFITH, who died in Muskingum Co, Oh. He was a farmer and was the father of three children: Mahlon, William R. and Leahann. He was a member of the Methodist Church. Mr and Mrs William R. Griffith were the parents of nine children: Mary E., William W., Mahlon, Theodore (who died at age 12 years), Almon, John R., Perry, Edgar G. and Leahann. Mr Griffith lived in Belmont Co for some years; then moved to Muskingum Co and in 1865 settled in Parke Co, Indiana. In 1877 he came to Pottawattamie Co and settled on a farm in Valley Township, where he still resides, at age sixty-seven. Both Mr and Mrs Griffith are members of the Methodist Church. Politically he is a Democrat. He was of Welsh descent and is a man of great force of character and upright morals and has labored hard to lead a just and honorable life.