History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 587.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

WILLIAM WRIGHT ALLEN, P. O. Georgetown; was born in Bourbon County, Ky.,
October 1824; his father, Joseph Allen, was born in Loudoun County, Va.,
in 1792; in 1812, he removed to Bourbon County, settling five miles east
of Paris; he was a very successful farmer, and had accumulated about 300
acres of land in Scott County at the time of his death; he was quite an
extensive stock raiser; in 1824 he removed to Scott County, Oxford
Precinct, where he remained until his decease in 1846; he participated in
the war of 1812; the grandfather of our subject was David Allen, who was
also born in Loudoun County, Va.; he came to Bourbon County with his wife,
five sons and three daughters; the mother of our subject was Catharine
Skillman; daughter of Isaac Skillman; they were natives of Virginia; she
was born in 1800; came to Bourbon County, in 1816, and married in 1818;
she is now living in Oxford Precinct, Scott County; she had eight children,
the third of whom was our subject who was brought by his parents to Scott
County when but three months old; he attended the common schools of Scott
County; in 1849, he commenced business for himself, engaging in farming,
for which purpose he removed to Fayette County, where he remained only one
year, then returned to Scott County, where he has since followed farming;
on Feb. 12, 1848, he married Miss Frances Skillman, of Fayette County; she
was born in 1832, and died in August, 1849; in 1851, he married Keziah
Brand, born in 1828, in Bourbon County; she was a daughter of Richard
Brand, the son of Dr. Brand, of Paris, Ky.; Frances Brand was born in
1798, near Stanton, Va.; she was married there and came to Bourbon County,
Ky., in 1827; by his first marriage he has one daughter, Frances Wright,
who is married, and now lives in Scott County; by his last marriage he has
three daughters: Mattie C., Anna L., Josie S., living, and one son dead;
the son was James William, who was attending school, and was accidentally
killed by one of his playmates and school friends with a gun; he was
hunting birds while enjoying recess at school.  During his life-time Mr.
ALlen has accumulated 350 acres of choice land, situated on the Oxford
Pike; he calls his farm "Maple Grove."

Allen Skillman Brand
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Bourbon-KY Loudoun-VA

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