Allison/Stevens Family

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(Submitted by Pat Lowe )
I believe this was the home of Ernest Chappell Stevens and Ann Ansley Allison, dau of Charles Aaron Allison and Sophronia Ansley. I don't know any more about his parents/siblings etc.

But I do have some info on his wife, Ann Allison Stevens, who died, in 1952, when her two sons were 3-4 years old. Therefore, her sister Miss LaVerna Allison came to live with her brother in law to help raise the boys. Miss LaVerna never married and was a school teacher in Buena Vista, Ga.

Here is a little biography of her from "Thomas Ansley, a history of descendants, Warren County, GA" vol 1, p 58-59 by Phyllis Ansley Griffin. La Verna Allison graduated from college in College Park GA. She was the principal of the Lyons High School in Lyons, GA. She also taught school in Buena Vista, GA in the Jr. High School and retired from teaching there. She was Superintendent of Sunday School at the Oglethorpe Ga, Baptist Church. She also ran a gift shop in Buena Vista GA. She was a member of the Delta Kappa Gamma sorority and Outstanding Teachers of the World. After her sister, Ann, died, La LaVerna helped to raise Ann's children.

In her later years, LaVerna and her sister Katherine, then a widow, lived together in the Atlanta area. I visited with them in their home in Marrietta and found them to be very charming and gentile women. They were very well educated and articulate women. Quintessencial southern women!

They were able to confirm a few details for me about my (our) ancestor, Henry L Allison and his three wives, Ann P Rainey, Mary Ann Lanier and her sister, Ruth Lanier. They never knew he had 3 wives. They descend from the middle wife, Mary Ann Lanier, but always thought that the last wife, Ruth Lanier, was their grandfather's mother since apparently she raised the younger children.

My 2nd great grandfather is Francis Randolph Allison, (child of Henry L Allison and Ann P Rainey, and their grandfather, William Peter Allison are half brothers.

Here are my sources for William Peter Allison
CENSUS: 1900 Marion Co Ga with Genie
1850 Census Randolph Co Ga
1860, 1870 Marion Co Ga
1920 Marion Co ED 74-9 liv with wife Genie and grdau Rosie Nutt
 

MARRIAGE: Marion Co GA Bk b p 156

FAMILY HISTORY: Info from Katherine Turner & LaVerna Allison grand daughters say WP is buried in Providence Cemetary,Marion Co Ga

DEATH: WP was 83 year old when he died from general dability (sic), old age, and worn out. Residence in 948th dist-Brantley Ga

FAMILY HISTORY:Uncle Leon told me that he read an article in the Atlanta Constitution about WP Allison who was the oldest Baptist preacher in GA. but since it is not indexed, I haven't found that article yet.

CHURCH HISTORY: Mercer University, Macon, Georgia; Baptist Ministerial Directory 1899 by Lasher;

Note: William P Allison, born Terrell Co Ga, licensed in 1880, ordained Mar 14, 1882, minister of New Providence Church 1883-85; Friendship Baptist Association Union Ga 1885-92; (Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church) Cusseta GA 1890-1891; Emmaus 1887-98; Tazewell 1893-96; Brantley GA 1899.

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Ernest Chappel Stevens was the son of Robert Williamson Stevens and Alice Fulford. He was born 23 May 1908 and died 11 October 1996. His paternal grandparents were Putnam Sparks Stevens and Louisa Josephine Hurt Stevens. Paternal great grandparents were Hampton Stevens and Attalissa Sparks Stevens.   Judy Gresham

I happened to notice a mention of William P. Allison in the email about the Drane-Stevens Home in Buena Vista. Rev. Allison was the Pastor of the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Chattahoochee County while my GGGGrandfather, William P. Fielder, was the Clerk of the Church.

If anyone is interested, I transcribed the minutes of this church several years ago and they are posted on the Chattahoochee County page. The dates that Rev. Allison served at this church are listed below. Carla Miles

THE CHURCH MINUTES OF MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA
DECEMBER 31, 1882 - JULY 1, 1893

Pastors of the Church:

G.W. Weekley, December 31, 1882 - January 6, 1884
W.P. Allison, February 3, 1884 - December 5, 1891
H.H.E. Hawkins, 1891 - July 1, 1893 (The book ends as of this date)

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