WARREN COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Cynthia Fredonia Bodine Simpson Allison
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Contributor's Note:   Death Announcement for Cynthia Fredonia Bodine Simpson 
Allison, found in the Scrapbook of Odessa Lenora Pollard Simpson, her daughter
in-law.

"In the death of Mrs. James Allison on August 31, at the age of 81m another 
landmark has removed from the, and a valued and beloved neighbor and friend from 
the community.

Born Cynthia Fredonia Bodine, grand-daughter of Johnathan and Cynthia Biles, in 
the year 1846, she was married in early womanhood to Henry Clay Simpson, a 
confederate soldier. John Simpson, of Gatesville,Texas, and Mrs. R. H. Brown, 
Viola, with whom Mrs. Allison made home for the past several years, are the 
children of this union.

After the death of Mr. Simpson she married James Allison, also a confederate 
veteran, and a member of one of the pioneer families of Middlde Tennessee. Ten 
years later her husband died, leaving her with four daughters, Mrs. W.W. King, of 
Morrison, Mrs E. A. Brown, Fayetteville, Mrs. G. E. Reynolds of Albany, GA, A 
daughter Hattie, died in the bloom of her young womanhood at the age of twenty-
one.

Mrs. Allison was a life-long member of the Cumberland Prebyterian Church at White 
Hall, which she joined in her girlhood and where the funeral services were 
conducted by the pastor, the Rev. W.H. Craven, assisted by the Rev A.J. Davies, 
pastor at Mr. Zion in Tennessee.

he Buried in the family lot in Mt. Zion Cemetary, the long funeral procession and 
the numerous floral offerings testifying to the love and esteem in which she was 
held.

Although a quiet and retiring woman, she was nevertheless possessed of courage and 
strength of character, as is evidenced by the manner in which she faced the world 
in her widowhood and reared her small children to Christian menhood and womanhood, 
to become value and trusted citizens. "Let her own works praise her in the gates."