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."
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."
Family Members
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Henry Nelson Furr
1810–1886
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Daniel Furr
1811–1876
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John Simpson Furr
1815–1841
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Tobias Furr
1817–1882
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Elizabeth Caroline "Betsy" Furr Glass
1819–1892
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Mary Ann Furr Shulenberger
1821–1900
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William Allen Furr
1824–1849
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James Burton Furr Sr
1826–1897
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Pvt Samuel Monroe "Sam" Furr
1828–1918
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Sarah L Furr Brewer
1831–1883
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Mary Ann Furr Starnes
1836–1910
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John Simpson Furr
1838–1881
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William Meek Furr
1840–1906
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James Stacy Furr
1845–1934
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Sarah Elizabeth Furr Newell
1847–1940
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Mattie J. Furr Freeman
1849–1933
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Paul Barringer Furr Sr
1858–1950
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Henry Byron Furr
1868–1944
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Hester "Hessie" Furr McPherson
1870–1931
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Rufus Joe Furr
1873–1907
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Joseph Lee "Joe" Furr
1874–1950