Limestone Co. TX - OBIT:  A. B. Allison

Submitted By:  Anna Penny  alp@vvm.com

   
                          A. B. Allison, Dead-1910
                                      
                                      
   From Groesbeck Journal, Dated Feb. 3, 1910
   
   Another Ex-Confederate Responds to the Last Summons and Rest"Beneath
   the Shade of the Tree"
   
   Again has the trumpets call sounded and once more has the brave soul
   of another soldier of the lost cause, abandoned it's tenement of clay
   and gone to join the host of kindred spirits who are emcamped beyond
   the pale realm. At 7:00 Saturday afternoon, just as the evening shades
   were gathering and night was casting it's sable garments over the
   earth, the tired spirit of A. B. Allison forsook its temporary abiding
   place, and began its journey to the Haven of Rest where there is
   neither suffering nor sorrow, and where the weary cease from trail and
   strife.
   
   When the end came, which was not unexpected, Mr. Allison was
   surrounded by his children, save two, Leon, who lives in Oklahoma, and
   Miss Odallee, who is teaching school in a distant part of the state
   and could not come to be with him in the last moments. It was a
   fitting close to an eventful life, peaceful, tranquil and quiet, he
   met the grim tyrant with the stoicism and fearlessness that
   characterized his life as a soldier and a citizen. Funeral services
   were conducted at the residence of his son, A. A. Allison, where he
   died, Sunday morning (Jan. 30, 1910, my insert, all Groesbeck Journals
   have been released on Thursday of each week) by Rev. J. B. Dodson,
   pastor of the Methodist Church, after which the Masonic faternity took
   charge of the remains and after holding it's ante-burial service,
   accompanied the remains to the depot where they were shipped to
   Marquez and on Monday interred in the family burial ground by the side
   of his wife who preceeded him in death some years ago.
   
   The deceased was 69 years of age and has lived in this and Leon County
   practically all his life. He was a young man when the war began and
   was among the first volunteers to respond, enlisting in Leon County
   and was attached to Hood's Texas Brigade in which he served throughout
   the war. He was in many notable engagements, one of which was at
   Gettysburg and was with Pickett in his charge of the heights and
   capture of Round Top, a charge made famous by the gallantry displayed
   by those engaged in it, and which will live as long as history last.
   
   When the was closed he returned to his home in Leon County and began
   the work of rebuilding a dsvastated country and by having aside
   comptectency for himself and family. He succeeded, and for many years
   he was considered one of the wealtiest men in the county. Mr. Allison
   lived many years at Oletha, afterwards locating in Groesbeck and
   engaging in business from which he retired after a few years and went
   to Aspermont in Stonewall County. But his health failed and he came
   back to Groesbeck, sometime ago, making his home with his son and
   where he lived when death came. He was a goodman, a good citizen and
   in his death the country has suffered a loss.

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