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Allen Carrigan

14 Feb 1833 – 21 Nov 1881

Birth14 Feb 1833
Death21 Nov 1881
Added byDonna Schulte Loth on 24 Apr 2015
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Allen Carrigan first appears in the 1850 United States Federal Census for the County of Maury, State of Tennessee, with his mother Nancy and four sisters: Polly, Nancy, Adeline and Louisa. He is eighteen years old at the time. His father, John Carrigan, head of a household that included 14 free white persons, appears in the 1840 census for Maury County. In 1860, Allen, his wife Obediance (Harris) and their three oldest children John, Susan and Mary T. are shown living in Maury County near Columbia. He appears in tax records for District 3 in Coryell County throughout the 1860s. Some time after its organization in October 1862, Allen joined the Tennessee 19th (Biffle's) Cavalry Regiment, usually known as Biffle's 9th Cavalry. Biffle's 9th participated in battles at Parker's Crossroads, Thompson's Station, Brentwood, Chickamauga, Atlanta Campaign, Franklin and Nashville. It may have been during one of these battles that Allen was captured and sent to Camp Morton, a Union-controlled prisoner of war camp in Indianapolis, Indiana. He remained at Camp Morton until one month before the end of the war, when he was paroled after taking the oath of loyalty to the United States. "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I, Allen Carrigan, Biffle's "[illegible single letter]" 19th [illegible] OF THE COUNTY OF Maury, STATE OF Tennesee, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR, IN PRESENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD, THAT I WILL HENCEFORTH FAITHFULLY SUPPORT, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE UNION OF THE STATES THEREUNDER; AND THAT I WILL, IN LIKE MANNER, ABIDE BY AND FAITHFULLY SUPPORT ALL ACTS OF CONGRESS PASSED DURING THE EXISTING REBELLION WITH REFERENCE TO SLAVES, SO LONG AND SO FAR AS NOT REPEALED, MODIFIED, OR HELD VOID BY CONGRESS, OR BY DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT; AND THAT I WILL, IN LIKE MANNER, ABIDE BY AND FAITHFULLY SUPPORT ALL PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT MADE DURING THE EXISTING REBELLION HAVING REFERENCE TO SLAVES, SO LONG AND SO FAR AS NOT MODIFIED OR DECLARED VOID BY DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT: SO HELP ME GOD. [Signed with an 'X' and 'his mark' and written 'Allen Carrigan'] SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO BEFORE ME, AT Camp Morton, Ind [?], THIS 31st DAY OF March, A.D. 1865. [signed] A. A--- [illegible name and rank]. THE ABOVE NAMED HAS dark COMPLEXION, dark HAIR, AND Grey EYES; AND IS 5 FEET, 10 1/2 INCHES HIGH." After the war, Allen returned home to Maury County, where he lived and farmed with his wife and four children (youngest son James Polk Carrigan being born in 1861). Between the years 1870 and 1880, Allen and his family left Tennessee and went to Texas, where in December of 1878 he pre-empted 160 acres of land and established a homestead. From the book titled "Coryell County Families"...... "...Allen Carrigan and Obediance Carrigan traveled in a covered wagon from Maury County, Tennessee in 1850 (transcriber's note: the Carrigans did not come to Texas until between 1870 and 1880, according to census records) to the southwestern part of Coryell County, four miles southwest of Bee House. They pre-empted 160 acres of land. There they built a large log cabin near an ever-flowing spring located on a mountainside. The Indians were a threat at all times. The children were taught mostly at home. Most travel was done in wagons or on horse back. There was no church near enough to attend. Several families met in their homes weekly for scripture reading, songs, and prayer." Allen did not enjoy his Texas home for long. According to an elusive Carrigan family Bible, he died in October 1881. His wife, in an application for a Confederate pension, states his date of death was 21 November 1882. Obediance lived on until 1901. Allen and Obediance Carrigan are probably buried in Coryell County, possibly in a cemetery near the village of Bee House. It is also possible that they are buried on the land owned by them near Bee House.

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