Burgess Allison Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: Burgess Allison: migrated from Cumberland, Md., in 1801, where he was born in 1759. He came with his parents who settled in now Hancock County, on a farm in Grant District. He remained with his father until twenty-seven years of age. He served in the War of 1812. Was married to Miss Sarah Barkley in 1816. Subsequently purchased a small tract of land and proceeded to improve it. He has lived on this land up to the present and has been engaged in farming and dealing in real estate. He had at one time in his possession over seven hundred acres of land, all improved. He is the father of eight children, four of whom are still living. His wife died in October, 1871, at the age of seventy-six years. They having lived together over half a century.