Person:John McALLISTER (1)

  See 1860 Iowa Census with Sarah McAllister, pg 715 at Burlington, Des Moines Co., IA.

1860 Census for White Oak Twp., Warren Co., IA pg. 835 (a different census record is pg. 637) recording John B. McAllister: living with David Braucht, his second wife Eliz. (Sayre), and John B. McAllister, age 14, with Rebecca Braucht (actually Imboden-McAllister-Braucht), age 66. These can not be the same John B. listed here considering birthdates of mother and son, plus age 14 in 1860. The John B. McAllister in 1860 census is predictably a grandson to Rebecca Imboden, and perhaps a son of this John McAllister. John's brother, Daniel, mentioned in his diary that he in April of 1837 he worked for his uncle Randle McAlister driving a boat horse on the Schoolkill Canal for $8 per month until about November. The boat was jointly owned by Randle and his brother James for shipping coal from Pottsville to Philadelphia (made 16 trips that season). After that fall Daniel returned home and attended school at the Lankard School House apparently conducted by John Nance (who at one time also rented a house to Rebecca Imboden Braucht. However, also see John Wittle McAllister who lived in the Powell Valley area; married and had children as follows: John McAllister; Joseph McAllister, who married Elizabeth Smith and had children; Emma Jane, Sarah Ann (married a Mr. Donaldson); Thomas W., born 4 Sep 1857 and worked on the railroad that gave him free passages to Ohio periodically; Randall; Elick; James; Helen (who married a Mr. Musket); and Elizabeth, (who married a Mr. Staples).

Alternative suggestion: The John B. McAllister in the 1860 Iowa Census may be John Benjamin McAllister and is the Benjamin referred to in Daniel Braucht's diary in next to last paragraph:

"While I was at Taneytown Prairie I made arrangements with Uncle Daniel McAlister to take Benj., 6 years old, his brother Randel’s son, to raise, his father and mother having died a short time before. He was a bright and good boy."

The age fits with the findings of the above quoted 1860 Iowa Census. If that is the case, then he would be the son of Randle McAllister and Elizabeth Moyer who is indicated in Daniel Braucht's Journal to have died when "Benjamin" was 6 years old.