Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 421-422 [Graves]

     JAMES R. ALLEN, the well known farmer near Mayfield, Graves county,
Kentucky, is himself a North Carolinian, and is one of that ceaseless
stream of emigrants who have been born in the rich Old North state, and
have afterward crossed the mountains to the wider fields of the states of
the Mississippi valley.  His father was James Allen, who was born in
North Carolina in 1814, and afterward moved to Tennessee, and in 1865
came to Marshall county, Kentucky, where he resided till his death in
1884.  His wife was Linda Russell, born in North Carolina in 1817, and
she died in 1880.  The children of these parents were: Joel Allen, who is
a well to do merchant of Clear Spring, Kentucky; Cable, in the tobacco
business in Mayfield; John, a farmer of Graves county, who died in 1887
at the age of forty-seven; Sallie, the wife of Dr. Shelton, of
Boydsville, Kentucky; Margaret, who died at the age of thirty-six.
     James R. Allen was born to these parents in North Carolina in 1862,
and was educated in the public schools of Marshall county, Kentucky. 
When he left school he began farming in Marshall county, and in 1887 came
to Graves county, where he has carried on agricultural pursuits ever
since, and his five hundred and seventy-five acres of well tilled land
place him in the front rank of the farmers of the county.  He is an
adherent of the old Democratic party, and attends to the duties of the
good citizen with commendable earnestness.  In 1887 Mr. Allen married
Miss Nellie Tryee, and the children who were born to them are May,
Celcie, John, Ruth, William, James, and Dewey.

Allen Russell Shelton Tryee
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NC TN Marshall-KY

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