Allen Graham

b. 1810 · Tennessee

Born 1810, Tennessee

Children include Harriett

Allen Graham was born in Tennessee about 1810. In 1883 a county history called him "one of the pioneer settlers of southwest Missouri".

In 1850 he was living in White River Township, Desha County, in southeastern Arkansas, where the White River meets the Arkansas and the Mississippi. He was forty. In his household were Julia H. Graham, twenty nine, born in Missouri, and John Graham, twenty one, born in Tennessee. The younger children were all born in Arkansas: Harriett C., eight, Manerva E., six, Joseph H., four, and Tilman C., one. Two girls named Clark lived with them, Levina T., seventeen, and Elvera B., nine, both born in Missouri.

His daughter Harriett went to school at Newton College in Newtonia, Missouri, and taught school in Newton and Jasper Counties. In January 1865 she married Peter Fishburn, a Union cavalryman of Jasper County. Their second son was named Tilman, the name of her younger brother.

Children

Harriett Clementine Fishburn (1842-1904)

Sources

United States census, 1850, White River Township, Desha County, Arkansas, household 180; NARA M432; FamilySearch 1:1:M67H-8R8.

1850 United States census, White River Township, Desha County, Arkansas, household 180, NARA M432, FamilySearch 1:1:M67H-8R8; History of Jasper County, Missouri (Mills and Company, 1883), sketch of Peter Fishburn

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Cite: Heirology, "Allen Graham (b. 1810)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/allen-graham-1810-2f3613.