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Samuel Tabor (Taber) Allen, early Texas public figure, son of Thomas & Eunice (Johnson) Allen, was born in 1809 in Connecticut. He sailed to Texas by way of New Orleans in 1830 & joined his uncle George Allen in Harrisburg. His goal was to seek a fortune & acquire land. Allen was active in prerepublic politics & was arrested & imprisoned with William B. Travis & others during the Anahuac Disturbances in 1832. He was a delegate from Milam to the Consultation of 1835 & was a member of the General Council. He also represented Milam in the House of Representatives of the First Congress, 1836-37. He & a group of his neighbors missed fighting at the Alamo by five days, & he missed participation in the battle of San Jacintoqv because he was moving his family to safety at San Augustine during the Runaway Scrape. In 1835 he married Matilda (or Hester) Roberts Connell, the daughter of Elisha Roberts, who settled in the San Augustine area in 1820. Matilda was a widow with two children, & she & Samuel had two additional children. Allen acquired over 20,000 acres of land & had many business interests. In October 1838 he was a member of a surveying team of some twenty men who were ambushed by a group of Kickapoo Indians near Dawson in Navarro County. Allen was killed; only five escaped. In 1850 Matilda Allen gave 120 acres of land to establish the town of Belton in Bell County. She died in April 1879. BIBLIOGRAPHY: A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell, and Coryell Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1893; rpt., St. Louis: Ingmire, 1984). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941). Margaret A. Cox
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Samuel Tabor (Taber?) Allen, son of Thomas & Eunice (Johnson) Allen, was born in 1809 in Connecticut. He came to Texas by ship by way of New Orleans in 1830, & joined his uncle George Allen in Harrisburg, Texas. His goal was to seek his fortune & acquire land. He was active in pre-Republic of Texas politics, & was arrested & imprisoned with William B. Travis & others during the Anahuac Disturbances in 1832. He was a delegate from Milam (Viesca) to the Consultation of 1835, & was a member of the General Council. Samuel T. Allen also represented Milam in the House of Representatives of the 1st Congress, 1836-1837. He & a group of his neighbors missed fighting at the Alamo by five days, & he missed participation in the Battle of San Jacinto while moving his family to safety at San Augustine during the Runaway Scrape. In 1835 he married Matilda T. (Roberts) Connell, the daughter of Elisha Roberts, an early settler of the San Augustine area in 1818. Matilda was a widow with two children, & she & Samuel had two additional children, Thomas & Eunice Margaret Amelia. Samuel never saw his daughter for he was killed by Kickapoo Indians in 1838 just before she was born. Samuel T. Allen was a member of a land-surveying team of some twenty men who were ambushed by a group of Kickapoo Indians near Dawson in Navarro County. Only five men escaped & one of the survivors, General Walter P. Lane, described the attack in John W. Wilbarger's Indian Depredations in Texas (1889). Samuel acquired over 20,000 acres of land during his time in Texas, & had many business interests scattered throughout the area. His brother, Thomas J. Allen, who had recently lost his wife, came from Connecticut to help Matilda Allen settle & manage the estate after Samuel Allen's death. Thomas & Matilda were married in 1847. In 1850, Matilda gave 150 acres of land to establish the town of Belton in Bell County. She died in 1879 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John T. Coffee, in Georgetown, Texas. Caleb J. Allen, Jr., a nephew of Samuel T. Allen, was a Union soldier in the Civil War. He described the war in letters home to Connecticut from points in Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, & Maryland. Frederick W. Abbott of London, Ontario, was related to the Allen family through marriage. He was a master elocutionist & actor who performed extensively in Texas between 1894-1900, & finally settled in San Antonio, Texas in 1914 as a teacher of public speaking at San Antonio High School. He had been a teacher of Dale Carnegie, & was a friend of Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore, who was a San Antonio resident in 1925. Mr. Abbott is buried at the Masonic Cemetery in San Antonio.
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Samuel Tabor (Taber) Allen, early Texas public figure, son of Thomas & Eunice (Johnson) Allen, was born in 1809 in Connecticut. He sailed to Texas by way of New Orleans in 1830 & joined his uncle George Allen in Harrisburg. His goal was to seek a fortune & acquire land. Allen was active in prerepublic politics & was arrested & imprisoned with William B. Travis & others during the Anahuac Disturbances in 1832. He was a delegate from Milam to the Consultation of 1835 & was a member of the General Council. He also represented Milam in the House of Representatives of the First Congress, 1836-37. He & a group of his neighbors missed fighting at the Alamo by five days, & he missed participation in the battle of San Jacintoqv because he was moving his family to safety at San Augustine during the Runaway Scrape. In 1835 he married Matilda (or Hester) Roberts Connell, the daughter of Elisha Roberts, who settled in the San Augustine area in 1820. Matilda was a widow with two children, & she & Samuel had two additional children. Allen acquired over 20,000 acres of land & had many business interests. In October 1838 he was a member of a surveying team of some twenty men who were ambushed by a group of Kickapoo Indians near Dawson in Navarro County. Allen was killed; only five escaped. In 1850 Matilda Allen gave 120 acres of land to establish the town of Belton in Bell County. She died in April 1879. BIBLIOGRAPHY: A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell, and Coryell Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1893; rpt., St. Louis: Ingmire, 1984). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941). Margaret A. Cox
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Samuel Tabor (Taber?) Allen, son of Thomas & Eunice (Johnson) Allen, was born in 1809 in Connecticut. He came to Texas by ship by way of New Orleans in 1830, & joined his uncle George Allen in Harrisburg, Texas. His goal was to seek his fortune & acquire land. He was active in pre-Republic of Texas politics, & was arrested & imprisoned with William B. Travis & others during the Anahuac Disturbances in 1832. He was a delegate from Milam (Viesca) to the Consultation of 1835, & was a member of the General Council. Samuel T. Allen also represented Milam in the House of Representatives of the 1st Congress, 1836-1837. He & a group of his neighbors missed fighting at the Alamo by five days, & he missed participation in the Battle of San Jacinto while moving his family to safety at San Augustine during the Runaway Scrape. In 1835 he married Matilda T. (Roberts) Connell, the daughter of Elisha Roberts, an early settler of the San Augustine area in 1818. Matilda was a widow with two children, & she & Samuel had two additional children, Thomas & Eunice Margaret Amelia. Samuel never saw his daughter for he was killed by Kickapoo Indians in 1838 just before she was born. Samuel T. Allen was a member of a land-surveying team of some twenty men who were ambushed by a group of Kickapoo Indians near Dawson in Navarro County. Only five men escaped & one of the survivors, General Walter P. Lane, described the attack in John W. Wilbarger's Indian Depredations in Texas (1889). Samuel acquired over 20,000 acres of land during his time in Texas, & had many business interests scattered throughout the area. His brother, Thomas J. Allen, who had recently lost his wife, came from Connecticut to help Matilda Allen settle & manage the estate after Samuel Allen's death. Thomas & Matilda were married in 1847. In 1850, Matilda gave 150 acres of land to establish the town of Belton in Bell County. She died in 1879 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John T. Coffee, in Georgetown, Texas. Caleb J. Allen, Jr., a nephew of Samuel T. Allen, was a Union soldier in the Civil War. He described the war in letters home to Connecticut from points in Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, & Maryland. Frederick W. Abbott of London, Ontario, was related to the Allen family through marriage. He was a master elocutionist & actor who performed extensively in Texas between 1894-1900, & finally settled in San Antonio, Texas in 1914 as a teacher of public speaking at San Antonio High School. He had been a teacher of Dale Carnegie, & was a friend of Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore, who was a San Antonio resident in 1925. Mr. Abbott is buried at the Masonic Cemetery in San Antonio.
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