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Title: A history of northeast Missouri
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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McAllister was bomin Shelby county, Kentucky, November 19, 1838, the son of GabrielMcAllister, whose birth occurred in Maryland in 179-. Gabriel Mc-Allister was married in Kentucky. He devoted all of his life to agri-cultural pursuits, moving to Missouri about 1850. Here, near Paris,he died in 1889. He and his wife were the parents of six children:Emma, who married Shelton Gosney, and passed away in Monroe county;Nancy, who became the wife of Dr. Thomas E. Staples and died inSaline county, Missouri; James Dallas, of Eads, Colorado; Rev. AlonzoR., who died in Saline county, Missouri, in 1894; William Horace, andThomas Alexander, of Fayetteville, Arkansas. William Horace McAllister was educated in the country schools ofMonroe county, near the county seat, and he was married in this county.When his family was young he moved into Saline county, Missouri,and has there been engaged in farming up to the present day. When theCivil war broke out he hastened to identify himself with the Confed-
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HISTORY OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI 1889 erate cause, and became a soldier in Colonel Porters regiment. On theoccasion of a raid made by the regiment on Palmyra, Missouri, he wastaken a prisoner by the Federals, and was thrown into prison at Alton,Illinois. He had intended to render material aid by entering the regularmilitary service of the Confederacy, but his capture nipped his plansin the bud, and his parole forced him to maintain a semblance of neutral-ity during the remainder of the war, following his release. WilliamH. McAllister was married to Sallie Palmer Caldwell, a daughter ofRobert Caldwell, who came to Missouri during the early years of itsstatehood. He came hither from Benton county, Kentucky. In hispolitical relations Mr. McAllister is as stanch a Democrat as his son.He and his wife are the parents of only one child, Frank W. Frank Winton McAllister was a lad when his parents settled inSaline county, and he obtained his early education in the schools of thiscounty. After gra

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