Llano County, TX - Bios:  Allsup, Henry Pulliam

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Submitted by: phill@redrock.net (Phyllis Hill)
February 5, 2000


                           HENRY PULLIAM ALLSUP

Henry Pulliam Allsup must have come to Llano County after 1873 as he is said
to have married Syrilda Jane Hines on 5 June 1875.  He was born in Lincoln
County, Tennessee 25 November 1832, the son of Joseph and Harriet Scott
Allsup.  The family went to Hickory County, Missouri after 1850 and Henry
married Edith A. (or Editha) Moore there about 1854.  They were the parents
of 8 children, 4 of whom died between 30 August and 15 December 1870; the
youngest child died 30 August 1866 and the mother died in 1867.  Henry
married her sister Frances, who died in childbirth and he married again to
Elizabeth (Hall) Chrisope, who also died after the birth of a son.  An older
brother, Daniel E. Allsup, was living in Burnet County, Texas in 1860 and
1870.  He was in Llano County in 1880 and could have been the reason Henry
brought his young family to the area.  At that time he had Andrew Henry,
Daniel Boone, Mary Abigail and James Riley.  His son by Frances Moore, John
Reuben Allsup, was living in Hickory County with his Moore grandparents.
Henry's children by Syrilda, all born in Llano County, were:  William
Franklin, b. 20 June 1876; Don Carlos, b. 11 May 1878; Christopher Columbus,
b. 25 January 1880, Sarah Oma, b. 5 July 1882, Judson Bailey, b. 12 August
1884; Martha Ora, b. 15 August 1886; Charles Spurgeon, b. 11 August 1889;
Carrie Elizabeth, b. 19 December 1892, and Lilly Pearl, b. 29 July 1895.
All the children were born on a farm about a mile from Packsaddle in Llano
County.  Carrie Elizabeth died 24 January 1893 and is buried in the Old
Montgomery Ranch cemetery near her grandmother, Sarah Noble Hines and uncle
James L. Hines.  Henry Allsup was a farmer and blacksmith and a Baptist
preacher.  His daughter, Pearl Allsup Haines, wrote that her father "used to
preach with a revolver beside his bible, as sometimes the cowboys got pretty
rough".  In 1896 the family moved to Reck, Carter County, Oklahoma Territory,
Chickasaw Nation, moving again in 1900 to Greer County, Oklahoma where Henry
died at Willow 20 December 1903.

This biography was written by me for the Llano County Historical Society for
their new History of Llano County, Texas.  I have made some additions and
corrections as I have found additional information.