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Subject: Joseph C. Allison-Biography
Date: 5 Apr 2005 23:46:49 -0600

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Surnames: Allison, Ragsdale, Brown
Classification: Biography

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Joseph C. Allison, ex-trustee and farmer of Veal Township, was born about three miles from the town of Washington. He is a son of Joseph and Mary (Ragsdale) Allison( See sketch of John A. Allison for ancestral history), and was educated in the common schools of his natice township and the public schools of Washington. He began teaching school in 1865, and continued that occupation during the winter seasons for about twelve years, and farmed during the summer. In 1870-71, he taught school in Newton County, Missouri and in 1873, settled on his present farm. He was married in 1872, to Charlotte Brown, a native of the county, and daughter of Alex and Malinda Brown. She was born in 1853, and has borne her husband these four children: Frederick L., born in 1875; Ufa J. born in 1878; Edith B. born in 1880; and Nelson H. born in 1883. Mr. Allison is a Democrat and was voted trustee of Veal Township in 1874; and was re-elected in 1876. He has been a fairly prosperous farme!
r, and owns 90 acres of well-improved land. He is a Mason and in 1862, enlisted in Company G,Forty-second Indiana Volunteer's and served his country for three months, but was honorably discharged on account of disability. He was at the battle of Stone River.
History of Knox and Daviess County Indiana
Goodspeed Publishing;Chicago; 1886
Page: 894
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