George 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: George Allison: was born in Washington County, Pa., in 1795; he married Jane Glenn, of said county, in 1816. In 1824, he with his wife and four children, James Robert, Mary and Elizabeth, came and settled on King's Creek, now Hancock County, West Virginia, where they remained until 1829, when they removed and settled on the north branch of Tomlinson's Run, where he is still living. One more son, Alexander, was born to them after their settlement in West Virginia; has followed farming as his vocation; his wife died in November, 1866.