The Skaggs-Files

1840 United States Census: , Bradley, Tennessee; Roll: 61; Page: 517; Image: 127; Family History Library Film: 0024542.
William McAllister Sr. 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Name: William Mcalister
Birth Year: abt 1760
Age: 80
County: Bradley
State: Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 80 thru 89: 1 William about 80
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1 Hannah Retta/Henrietta about 60
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 4
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 4
on same page:
William McAllister 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Name: William Mcalester
[William Mcalister]
County: Bradley
State: Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 5
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 5

1840 United States Federal Census about William Mcallister
Name: William Mcallister
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Bradley, Tennessee
Birth Year: abt 1760
Age: 80
Military service: Veteran

Re: REIFF, MCCALLISTER, DUNCAN, REDFEARN
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William McAlister, was born in Scotland, according to family records, or Dorcester Co., MD, based on his Revolutionary War pension application, on March 23, 1762. The family version portrays William emigrating with brother James to Fort Baltimore, MD c. 1778. He then enlisted as a private for two and a half years in the American patriots army before his discharge in 1780. He migrated to North Carolina while brother James went to Kentucky two years later. William married Martha Hambright in 1783 and their first son, Athial, was born the following year, reportedly in MD. Following were John (1787), William (1788, NC), Jessie (1791, NC), Mary (1795), Martha (1800) and Ezekiel (1802). The eighth and final child was Wesley (Aug. 15, 1802 - Sept. 6, 1880), the great-grandfather of Tull Campbell. William McAlister later remarried to Henrietta Shipley on May 5, 1828 in Hamilton Co., TN and was awarded in Revolutionary pension in September 1832. William McALLISTER died Oct. 3, 1842, in Bradley or McMinn Co., TN, at the home of his youngest son, Wesley in 1840.
(It is proved he lived in Bradley County, Tennessee in 1842 because of a lawsuit.)

Wesley McAlister married Sarah Hellum/Hellams (March 27, 1806-Jan. 29, 1898) about 1822 in GA or McMinn Co., TN near the Georgia border. Tully's maternal grandfather, William H. McAlister (Dec. 15, 1823 - Aug. 30, 1895), moved to Georgia, where he met his wife Sarah A. (Sept. 1, 1836 - after 1900) and raised their children. Wesley , son William H. and their wives also moved to Center Township, Greene Co., before they died. All are buried in Clear Creek Cemetery, Center Township.
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Good Digging In
The National Archives
by Robert M. McAllister
August, 2001

The records which most genealogists use at the National Archives (NA) in Washington, DC, and in the Regional Centers, are the microfilmed census and other material, like military service records. There are a lot of other paper records of interest to genealogical researchers, some of which are poorly indexed. To help genealogists locate these records, some authors have published finding aids, which are used by a small staff of research assistants. In two recent trips to the NA, I was fortunate in being helped by two of the latter.

Wanda Shelton asked me to locate five pension records in a group referred to as the "Lost Pensions." My first attempt to locate these records was on Monday, August 27. Room 410 in the NA is the place to find the indexes, and where the Reference Service Slips are filled out, so that the actual records can be brought to Room 203 for your inspection, and copying. After describing what I wanted, the reference assistants brought out a well-thumbed book, "Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, Inventory 14 (Revised), Record Group 217," compiled by William F. Sherman, with additions and index by Craig R. Scott, CGRS, Willow Bend Books, Lovettsville, VA, 1997. It appeared that Entry #722, Final Payment Vouchers, Third Auditors Office, contained what I wanted.

After submitting the service slips, I went to Room 203 and waited for the records to be brought to my desk. Three McAllister files were in the retrieved records. The first file in Box 12 consisted of papers describing the pension awarded William McCallister (W10) on September 18, 1833. His pension was eighty dollars a year, paid for wounds and disabilities received for services rendered to the United States during the Revolutionary War. He had served in Captain Sullivan's Infantry Company. He had been residing in Bradley County,TN for five years, and before that he lived in McMinn County, TN. The original pension was approved by Lewis Cass, Secretary of War. In 1842, a further confirmation of the pension was signed by a Justice of the Peace in Bradley County, and was witnessed by John Hambright. The last item in the file was a voucher for $40.00, dated October 31, 1842. William had died on October 3, 1842.

I should emphasize that I reviewed the actual paper records. They have not been microfilmed.

The second file, in Box 17, was for James McAllister who died in Henry County, KY, on November 30, 1849. A certificate filed in Jefferson County, KY named the estate administrator. The form for recording his death, and ending of his pension payments of twenty dollars a month, noted that he left no widow. There is no record of this James McAllister in the CMA computer data base.

The third file, also in Box 17, was for John McAlister, who died in Logan County, KY, on November 27, 1828. Other Kentucky counties in which records were filed were Todd and Fayette. Ephraim McAllister, a son of John, certified the date of death. John had been receiving a Revolutionary War pension of eight dollars a month since July 21, 1818. There is no record of this John McAlister in the CMA computer data base.

I could find no index for this series, Entry #722, Final Payment Vouchers. There may be more McAllister records in them.

After copying these files, I returned to Room 410, where I reviewed the reference book cited above. The exact description of the five files in Wanda Shelton's request, "Settled Accounts for Payment of Accrued Pensions," was found in Entry #724, rather than #722. I decided to return and copy the files in that group.

On Friday, August 31, I went back to NA Room 410, filled out the slips for the five files in Entry #724, and turned them in. Mr. Charles Johnson who had helped me on August 27, decided to take me into the stacks to locate the boxes. Using the Box numbers in Wanda's request, which were the same as in Craig Scott's book in the NA copy of "Lost Pensions," we could not locate any of the files. We returned to Room 410, where we talked to the research specialist who had worked with Scott when the records were indexed. He told us that the box numbers had been changed. He helped us to determine the correct ones. With this new information, we went back into the stacks, and found the files we were looking for. Mr. Johnson put the boxes on a cart and took them to Room 203, where I signed them out for review.

The first file (#2658, in Box 272) was for Henrietta, widow of William McAllister (W10). Essentially, the file contains the records for stopping William's Revolutionary War veteran's pension of eighty dollars a month, since Henrietta had died on November 15, 1858. The correspondence continued into 1860. There is no information in the file mentioning anyone of interest other than Henrietta and William.

The second file (#8105, in Box 58) was for Joseph McAllister (J18), who died in Pulaski, KY, July 22, 1833. Although he left no widow, the following children, with their counties of residence, are contained in the documents: Robert (Pulaski); Harvey (Pulaski) George (Knox, KY); John (Greenup, KY) and Adam (Dixon, TN). Witnesses to one of the documents were Joseph M., James and Nathaniel McAlister, and Jefferson Gilmore. These McAllisters were probably Joseph's brothers. Nancy Gilmore had been Joseph's wife. I believe that Nathaniel is N07, and that James may be JA03. Joseph had been awarded a pension of eighty dollars a month on March 3, 1831. His five sons probably continued to receive an equal share that amount for the rest of their lives. Although Joseph and Nancy Gilmore McAllister had a daughter Martha, she is not mentioned in the documents, probably because she died before 1833.

The third file (#6587, in Box 273) was for Daniel McAlister (D14) of Shelby County, KY, who died August 21, 1846. He had lived there for forty one years, and had come from Virginia. His wife Susan had died several years prior to1846. His heirs were his daughters Lucy Carson and Nancy Harris. They applied for the balance of his pension of thirty six dollars a month, in Oldham County, KY. The D14 file in the CMA computer data base does not list Daniel's wife's name. The death dates for their son Samuel and daughter Susannah can be shown as prior to August 1846.

The fourth file (#1548 in Box 220) was for John McAlllister (A17-3) of Richmond County, NC, who died December 24, 1848. He had lived in Richmond County for sixty years before his death and had previously resided in Kintyre, Scotland. His widow Sarah made a claim for the continuation of his pension of sixty dollars a month, on March 15, 1852.

The fifth file (#6759 in Box 274) was for John McCallister, discharged Private of Captain Nesmith's Company of Oregon Mounted Volunteers. The papers were filed in Marion County, Oregon Territory. John McCallister had fought in the Indian War with the Yakima Indians on the Rogue River in southwest Oregon near the California border in 1853. There is no family file in the CMA data base for this John McCallister.

The research in the NA was well worth the effort. Solid, well-documented information was discovered about four CMA family lines, plus some information about three families we did not even know existed.

This experience taught me that it pays to be persistent, even when researching in the National Archives.
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William McAlister Fought In The Revolutionary War
Monday, September 02, 2002 - by John Wilson

William McAlister was a Revolutionary War soldier who made his way from Maryland to Bradley County. A number of his descendants have been prominent in Hamilton County. The name has been spelled variously.

William McAlister was born March 23, 1762 in Dorchestor County, Md. He married Henrietta Shipley on May 8, 1828, in Hamilton County. She died Nov. 15, 1857, in Hamilton County.
William McAlister applied for a Revolutionary War pension in 1832 while living in McMinn County. He and died Oct. 3, 1842, in Bradley County. Henrietta applied for a pension as his wife in 1853 and received the pension. After her death, Gilbert W. Dearing was the administrator of her estate after she died Nov. 15, 1857, in Hamilton County.

Appearing in the early Tennessee censuses were James G. McAlister, born in the 1770s; Athiel McAlister and William McAlister Jr., born in the 1780s, and a James McAlister, born in the 1790s. Wesley, James B., Jesse, Charles R. and John S. McAlister were born in the 1800s.

Andrew Jackson McAllister was born near Madisonville in Monroe County. He was likely a descendant of the Revolutionary War soldier. He moved when a boy with his parents to near Harrison in Hamilton County. Some of the McAllisters fought on the Union side, including William McAllister, father of A.J. McAllester. William McAllister died at the notorious prison camp that the Confederates operated at Andersonville in South Georgia. His widow was Eliza Ann Wilson McAllister. His other children included Pulaski G., Amanda, Teresa, Elizabeth, Malinda, Thomas, William W., James Buchanan and Mary. Pulaski fought for the Union Army with Company G of the Fifth Tennessee Infantry. He married Laura, who was from North Carolina. James Buchanan McAllister worked first as a brakeman and later as a passenger conductor for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad. He lived at St. Elmo. His first wife, Marilla J. Pinion, was from Georgia and was the daughter of Berry Jefferson Pinion. After she died, he married Hester Browning, who lived from 1872 to 1936. James Buchanan McAllister had a son, William Thomas McAllister, who also lived at Chattanooga and worked for the railroad. He was a member of First Christian Church. He married Mary Crabtree. Their daughter, Caroline, married George W. Wallace. Another son of James Buchanan McAllister was Paul Newton McAllister, who died in 1909. Other children of James Buchanan McAllister were J.B., who lived at Memphis; a daughter who married C.E. Harvey; a daughter who married William Miller, and a daughter, Rachel Caroline, who was an unmarried schoolteacher who died in 1957. James Buchanan McAllister died in 1941.

Teresa, daughter of William and Eliza Ann McAllister, married John H. Templeton, and they moved to Jasper County, Mo. John H. Templeton was a son of Wiley Templeton, who formerly lived near the McAllisters , but later moved to Missouri also. Malinda, daughter of William and Eliza McAllister, married Linnaeus Risley. Elizabeth, another daughter of William and Eliza McAllister, lived with the Risleys in Chattanooga, but she died on March 3, 1880, of consumption. Mary, the youngest daughter of William and Eliza Ann McAllister, married Thomas S. Haydon in 1880. He died in the late 1890s and she was a widow for many years. She died in Chattanooga on Dec. 11, 1931. She had two daughters, Bessie and Myrtle Alice. Bessie married Fred A. Tomlinson. She died at the home of her sister on Dec. 8, 1940. Myrtle Alice married William T. Watts and later Val Demar Johnson.

A.J. McAllister lived at Harrison until 1867 when he moved into Chattanooga and opened a grocery. He had earlier been a railroad worker and “was a great favorite of the railroad men.” But he had to leave railroading after he lost a leg in the war while fighting for the Union. A.J. McAllister “always took an active interest in public affairs.” He was a longtime member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

A.J. McAllister married Martha Jane McNabb, who had first been married to James Arthur Bell. He died in 1876. She was from a prominent pioneer Hamilton County family. Her parents, Major Robert Lusk McNabb and Eliza Boyd McNabb, were early residents at Ooltewah, having moved there the year of the Indian removal. Martha Jane McNabb Bell McAllister was also active in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. She was for many years a member of the Woman’s Club at Chattanooga. She wrote a number of unpublished poems and wrote several plays that were performed by womens’ organizations of her church. She died in 1937 after suffering a heart attack. Her children by her first marriage were Arthur Bell, who was superintendent of the McAllester Hosiery Mill, and Nellie E. Bell, principal of H. Clay Evans School.

The sons of A.J. McAllister and Martha Jane McNabb Bell McAlleste were Samuel J. and William Lusk, and the daughters were Mary E. and Edith. Mary married a dentist, Dr. Charles E. Smith. Edith married Joseph P. Adkins, an Army officer who committed suicide. She later married L.D. Miller, a Chattanooga attorney who became Criminal Court judge.

A.J. McAllister was living on Early Street in Chattanooga when he died of Bright’s disease in 1905. He was 59. The funeral was conducted by Dr. E.G. McLean at the McAllister residence. He was buried at Forest Hills Cemetery in St. Elmo. Some leading citizens served as pallbearers, including W.J. Dobbs, Hiram D. Rider, D.E. Lee, W.B. Cox, Kelly O’Rear, William G. Oehmig, T.F. Ware and G.F. Alexander.

Samuel J. McAllester, son of A.J., was born Aug. 7, 1884, in Chattanooga. He graduated from the University of Tennessee after finishing high school with the class of 1901. He taught science and history at Chattanooga High School and for four years was a teacher of mathematics and history at Baylor School. Sam McAllester decided to switch from teaching to the law. His law training was at the University of Chattanooga, then he began his law career in 1912. His specialty was corporation law. In 1913, he married Margaret Spears, daughter of attorney William Douglas Spears. W.D. Spears was the senior partner in the Chattanooga law firm of Spears, Moore, Rebman and Williams. W.D. Spears was a three-sport athlete at McCallie School, then he was an All-American football player at Vanderbilt University. Sons of Samuel McAllester were Samuel J. and Spears McAllester. Margaret Spears McAllester died in 1922 when her sons were still young. She attended the Christian Church, while Samuel J. McAllester was at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Samuel J. McAllester was active in Republican politics and became United States Commissioner for the district and a judge in Bankruptcy Court.

The younger brother, William Lusk McAllester, was born December 29, 1889, on College Hill. He was an outstanding athlete, playing baseball, football and basketball in high school. He went to City High and then to Baylor, but he transferred back to City when his brother became athletic director there. He played three sports at the University of Chattanooga for two years. But he then decided to play baseball professionally, joining Knoxville of the Appalachian League. He later played for Montgomery, then he was spotted by big league scouts. In the spring of 1913, he joined the St. Louis Browns as a catcher. William McAllester played against Ty Cobb and Casey Stengel was his teammate at Montgomery. He remembered Walter Johnson as the greatest pitcher he ever saw. He played the full season and reported the following spring to St. Petersburg for spring training. But he ruined his baseball career when he hurt his arm and shoulder in a hard slide during practice. William L. McAllester returned to Chattanooga and went into coaching. He helped his brother, Sam, at Baylor, then he coached at City and later at McCallie. In 1921, he coached McCallie to the Southern championship. While at City, his greatest ambition was to beat McCallie. He discovered a natural open field runner, who was a deaf mute – Louis “Dummy” Davis. He kept Davis a secret until the day of the game, when the surprise player led City to a 49-6 trouncing of the Blue Tornado. He was football coach at the University of Chattanooga for three years, then was succeeded by Frank Thomas. William McAllester went to law school at night and earned a degree at the Chattanooga College of Law. But in 1921 he turned his attention to business, founding the Southern Hosiery Mills. The name was later changed to McAllester Hosiery Mills. He remained passionate about sports, and for many years he funded the “Knothole Gang” that allowed youngsters to get into ballgames and to take part themselves.

William Lusk McAllester in 1923 married Winifred Ewing, daughter of H.O. Ewing. They made their home on Lookout Mountain at 814 W. Brow Road. They had a daughter, Ewing, and three sons, William L. Jr. and twins Robert McNabb and Chamberlain. All three sons were 6’2” and played prep football at Choate, the Yale preparatory school. They then all graduated from Yale. At one time, each owned and flew his own airplane. William L. Jr. was a vice president of McAllester Hosiery Mills and he founded McAllester Electronics. The McAllester twins set up a Chattanooga law office. Ewing McAllester was the best all-around athlete at Vassar. She was twice city tennis champion and state champion, and she also won the state title in North Carolina.