Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-05-22

minion. A neighbor Of the Aliens
from boyhood. their attorney and coun-
sellor in many Of their. civil and GRIM
inal bouts with the law, he has per.
sonally known the Allen clansmen OF
I three generations. " q
As counsel for Floyd Allen, ne STOOD
beside his client when the latter OPEN
ed fire upon the court officers and
jury, and Judge Bolen himself narrow.
" 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. .s35 ..
It IL not without reason that the
\ Carroll county Aliens are referred TO
Is the members Of clan. The hrst
Of their forbears who settled In this
vicinity in Colonial times came Of
Scotch-Ir1sh 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. impatience OF restraint and
lighting courage.
In Revolutionary days what Is now
Carroll was Montgomery county. Viz
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
y 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
dier's scion, on whose head the out
ragged law has put a price.
AS William Allen marched to battle
he observed that the rolling land on
the far side Of the Fancy Gap was at
I tractive. When the Revolutionary war
was over he and one Of his fellow SOL
diers settled there and SO the Aliens
became established in the quarter
which they have ruled ever since like
feudal barons. 81. Ill
Tradition says William Allen was a
good soldier. He was destined to be
the progenitor of many good soldiers.
He had two sons, only one Of whom.
William Allen, Jr., concerns this mar
rative, 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
Civil war. Lemuel was killed 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-
vate in the same company, saw his
brother fall, paused long enough to
lift his stricken form and to note that
he 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
were uniformly praised by his officers.
AS Confederate veteran and good
neighbor, he lived until about ten
years ago, when, at a good old age, he
was shot any killed by Mack Hewlett,
and Hewlett was lynched, after a,
band, believed to have included men,
bers of the Allen clan, had taken him
from the Hillsville Jail. the keys of
which were surrendered by the jai!er,
who was a cousin OF Jack Aliens
wife.
OF the four sons of Bailey Allen the
black sheep Of the family was Bailey,
Jr. Judge Bolen was called upon to
defend him against numerous criminal
charges, and he was finally sentenced
to long term In the state peniten-