The Allee Family - Texas Rangers, Lavaca County TX
Submitted by: Michael Owens  OldHikory@aol.com 12 Feb 2000
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I came across a copy of this article from THE VICTORIAN ADVOCATE, Thursday, 
April 10, 1997 - 3A

"Old Clinton was home to many interesting families"

Leonard B. Meyer of Hallettsville has provided some additional information on 
one of the burials in the old Clinton Cemetery near Cuero.

He says Julia A Allee, 1829-1864, was the mother of the first Alfred Alonzo 
Lee (Alfred Al. Lee, which somehow became Allee), who is buried at Weesatche, 
rather than the son.

The Allees are the famous Texas Ranger family and Alfred Y. Allee was killed 
in 1895 at Laredo and is buried at Runge, according to the Meyer's 
information.  Another of Julia's sons, Alonzo Rolland Allee, was k9illed at 
Goliad in 1897and is also buried at Runge.

Alfred Alonzo first married Ann Lovelady, daughter of a pioneer preacher, and 
after she died about 1850, he married Julia Wilcox in Lavaca County on Aug. 
31, 1854, with Lovelady officiating.

Meyer's connection is that his great-grand father, Andrew Jackson Butts, had 
been married to Jane Lovelady, another of the preacher's daughters.  Butts 
was twice widowed before marrying Susan Bownds, Meyer's great -grand mother.

Meyer would like to locate the grave of Jane Lovelady Butts, who died in 1847 
and is buried somewhere in Victoria County, as well as the grave of another 
of her sisters, Sarah Lovelady Jones, wife of M. M. Jones.  She died in 
DeWitt County about 1860.

Julia Wilcox Allee had a sister, Meyer notes, Mary Jane Wilcox, who married 
Jackson Jacobs.  He was killed while serving as Sheriff of Goliad County.

A son of the first Alfred Y. Allee, Alonzo William, was killed at Crystal 
City in 1918.

It all gets a bit confusing, but many in South Texas know the Allee family 
connections to the Rangers best through the latter Alfred Y. Allee, a ranger 
for 37 years who followed in the footsteps of his father, Alonzo W. Allee, 
and his grandfather, the original Alfred Y. Allee.

He had also served as a deputy sheriff in Bee County during Miriam "Ma" 
Ferguson's term as governor when he and other Rangers resigned, returning 
only after the election of James Alfred in 1935.
Allee, who died in 1987, was one of the more colorful of the old-style 
Rangers in recent times.

A son, Alfred Y. Allee, Jr. also joined the Rangers.

It is an interesting family whose Texas roots go back to the area where Julia 
A. Allee was laid to rest in the old Clinton Cemetery during the Civil War, a 
war that would end in Confederate defeat and bring Reconstruction to the 
South, putting Clinton on the may as one of the most turbulent  towns in 
Texas.

All that is left of the county Seat of DeWitt County is the cemetery, as we 
previously mentioned being so nicely cleaned and restored by Fred Lott of 
Nursery.

Many South Texas families have roots in and around Clinton, including some of 
the most historically interesting  families to be found anywhere in the state.

Such that of Julia A Allee.

Mother to a family of Texas Rangers.


Michael Owens
Nashville, Tennessee