Believed to be buried here in an unmarked grave
Married Mary Baker 7 Aug 1836 in St Francois County, Missouri.
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John Alley in the 1860 United States Federal Census
Name: John Alley
Age: 63
Birth Year: abt 1797
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Missouri
Home in 1860: Piney, Oregon, Missouri
Post Office: Thomasville
Dwelling Number: 45
Family Number: 47
Occupation: Farmer
Real Estate Value: 2000
Personal Estate Value: 1000
Household Members Age
John Alley 63
Mary E Alley 43
Sarah J Alley 17
Arty H Alley 16
William Alley 14
Nancy Alley 12
Oral Alley 10
Cally Alley 8
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The following are excerpts from "Ozarks Civil War History and Time Line"
"Civil War Cause and Effect upon Oregon County, Missouri"
This is the civil war document presented to the Oregon Co, MO, Genealogical Society
Credit for the hard work and research goes out to: Lou Wehmer and Carl Burkhead

*****For more information and fascinating reading, go to and if used, PLEASE be sure to give Lou Wehmer and Carl Burkhead the proper credit:

" In Howell County William Monks was appointed registering officer, and to beef up his authority was given a Major's commission in the new militia. He immediately armed one hundred men, who seem to have spent a lot of their time in Howell County insuring former rebels they were no longer welcome there. The opposite was happening here in Oregon County.

Capt. Alley, who had been a Confederate all through the war, but was an honest man and wanted to see the law enforced, informed Governor Fletcher of the condition of the county. Governor Fletcher at once appointed him an enrolling officer, ordering him to enroll and organize the county into militia companies, to form a posse-comitatus to aid the sheriff in enforcing the law. As soon as he received his commission, he rode into the different townships, put up his notices requesting the people to meet him for the purpose of enrolling. Jamison, with about forty men, rode into the township where the first meeting was to be, posted another written notice on the same tree, the purport of which was that if Capt. Alley, the old, white-headed scoundrel, appeared on the day to carry out the orders of the Governor, he would meet him and shoot his old head off his shoulders. Alley, being satisfied that he would carry out his threat, went to the place before daylight and concealed himself nearby. About 10 o'clock on the day appointed, Jamison and about forty followers came charging in on their horses revolvers in hand, cursing and declaring that they would like to see the old white-headed scoundrel put in an appearance so they could make an example of him; that they didn't intend to let any man enforce the law against them."

Monks later wrote that he accepted the militia commission solely to ensure the security of Howell County from depredations of outlaws in neighboring counties, and that Gov. Fletcher asked him to take command after receiving pleas by Capt. John Alley, former Confederate officer and the registrar of Oregon County. Outlaws had killed returning Union veterans and threatened Capt. Alley's life, preventing him from enrolling voters according to law. Monks claimed that a secret organization of ex-Confederates known as the Sons of Liberty cooperated with the outlaws. Their combined efforts were dedicated to preventing Union men from ever living in the area, by means including intimidation, robbery, arson, and murder. The outlaw chief Jim Jamison personally vowed to kill Monks if he ever entered Oregon County."

The complete article can be found at:
http://www.alton-mo-business.com/history/civilwarhistory.htm

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/alley-john

ALLEY, JOHN (unknown–unknown).John Alley, early colonist, soldier, and politician, was among Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred. He immigrated to Texas as early as 1826, when a Mexican census listed him as a farmer and stock raiser between twenty-five and forty years of age. The census indicated that he was married at the time and had two small sons. In 1827 Mexican officials granted him title to a league of land now in Jackson and Lavaca counties. On July 17, 1835, Alley was present at William Millican's gin, where delegates adopted resolutions condemning Mexican policies on American colonists. On October 3, 1835, the day after the battle of Gonzales, Austin wrote Alley to inform him of the outbreak of hostilities and request intelligence regarding the approach of Mexican general Martín Perfecto de Cos. By November Alley had been appointed captain in the Texan "Army of the People," in which capacity he served on General Austin's headquarters staff. On December 6, 1835, he was elected commissioner to organize the militia for Jackson Municipality. In February he served as judge at the election of delegates to the Convention of 1836. Alley left Texas on April 18, 1838, and named Darwin M. Stapp his agent during his absence from the republic.

John was the son of William Alley 1778-1827 and his first wife, Sarah Akers Alley 1778-1797.

William and his second wife Mary Baker Alley along with sons John, Thomas and William moved to Texas from Missouri. William and Mary were killed by Indians in 1827 in Texas.
For William's death, a Land Grant from the Mexican Government (Fayette Co., TX) "TO THE HEIRS OF WILLIAM ALLEY" proved by surviving eldest son John Alley, was awarded 16 May 1827. He also got a partial league in Jackson county on May 14, 1827.

John was a grandson to John and Margaret Alley who came to Missouri in 1793 from PA. John came from Missouri to Texas where he spent about 15 years then moved back to Missouri.