Person:Joseph Allison (10)

1860 census, Orange County, North Carolina: Enumerated with daughter Alvira and son-in-law David A Taylor

Information from McMenamy & Miller and Related Families database on RootsWeb: REFN: 524 Roberson McMenamy was mentioned in the will of his father-in-law, Joseph Allison. as follows: (none of the estate passing to Joseph Allison's daughter Martha Livingston Allison McMenamy could be used to pay debts of Roberson McMenamy!)

Joseph Allison is now referred to by residents of Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina as the "General in the graveyard". He severed in the North Carolina State Legislature and Senate for many years and he also held county offices and was an officer in the State Militia.

The Allisons and Woods families founded the Little River Presbyterian Church in the Little River area, a few miles to the west. Today Eno is composed of two handsome churches, a small post office-country store, and two large colonial homes. Tobacco is the major crop in the county.

1. ↑ Surveyed December 1975 : http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/orng/cem020.htm. Old Eno Presbyterian Church Cemetery (Old) - transcription. (Location - In north central Orange County, .3 miles west from Rte 86 north, via Carr Store Road (SR #1352) to Eno Cemetery Road (SR #1383), south on that road 1.1 miles to the cemetery. On the shore of Lake Orange, formerly the east fork of the Eno River,).
   1. Allison, Joseph (General) (b. 31 Dec 1787 - d. 23 Jul 1861); husband of Martha Allison. 'And He Served His Generation.' Footstone: J.A.