Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-21

hinion. A neighbor OF the Aliens
from boyhood, their attorney and couh-
sellor in many of their civil and GRIM
lnal bouts with the law, he has per-
sonally known the Allen clansmen OF
three generations
AS counsel for Floyd Allen, he stood
beside his client when the latter open
ed fire upon the court officers anu
jury, and Judge Bolen himself narrow
iy escaped death from the bullets In
tended for the convicted man. He es-
capped by prostrating himself upon the
court room floor until the rain OF lead
had spent itself.
II is not without reason that the
Carroll county Aliens are referred to
as the members of clan. The first
Of their forbears who settled in this
vicinity in Colonial times came OF
Scotch-Irish stock-a strain often OF
sterling worth, but ever with a
touch of clannish family pride, and
usually with more than touch of pug
nacity. Impotence of restraint and
lighting courage.
In Revolutionary days what is now
Carroll was Montgomery county, Vir-
ginia. One of the members OF the
Montgomery county militia who left
his pillow and his ak to march across
The Blue Ridge in time to take part
IN the battle of Guilford Court House.
N. c.. was William Allen. The militia
detachment marched across the Ridge
by way of the Fancy Gap road, the
same thoroughfare over which armed
scouts have been scurrying to and fro
In search of this Revolutionary sol
1ier's scion, on whose head the out
ragged law has put a price.
As William Allen marched to battle
ne observed that the rolling land on
he far side of the Fancy Gap was at
.ractive When the Revolutionary war
was over he and one of his fellow SOL
became established in the quarter
which they have ruled ever since like
eudal barons.
Tradition says William Allen was a
good soldier. He was destined to be
he progenitor of many good soldiers.
He had two sons. only one of whom,
William Allen, Jr., concerns this mar
ratiye, for the second, William, was
the father of two sons, Bailey Allen
and William Carr Allen.
Bailey Allen had four sons-Lemuel,
William, Carr and Bailey Allen, Jr OF
The four three were gallant soldiers in
the Confederate service during the
r,iv;l xuar Tamuoi waS kilIad IN a
charge during the second battle OF
Bull Run. or, as is generally desig
mated In the south, the Battle OF
Manassas. William, who was a pri
yate in the same company, saw his
brother fall. paused long enough to
lift mis- stricken form and to note that
ne was dead, and then went on in the
charge upon the Union position.
Carr Allen survived four years OF
active service. He was soldier
whose dash, courage and gallantry
we're uniformly praised by his officers
As a Confederate veteran and good
neighbor, ne lived until about ter
years ago, when, at good old age. be
gas shot any killed by Mack Hewlett
and Hewlett was lynehed. after a
band. believed TO have included mem
oers of the Allen clan, had taken him
from the Hillsville jail, the keys OF
which were surrendered by the ja;ler
who was a cousin of Jack" Aliens
wife.
OF the four sons of Bailey Allen the
black sheep of the family was Bailey
defend him against numerous criminal
charges, and he was finally sentenced
TO long term in the state peniten