The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-04-05

AAhr00- D. Wuikhluns rou1VOH, VI C1o
noke Times, In something over a t.
story for his paper, has this to
In part, Of the Allen clan and =
Carroll county horror: j. S
To understand the full story s
must go back good many years. +,
try to get the surroundings cleayt i
mind. The father Of the Allens9 8
originator Of the family, was Je 81
Allen. Some OF the oldest people =
Hillsville have been consulted regal 4
ing the family descent, but nobo6
seems to know OF It further back than
Jerry Allen. Judging from his neI6e
and from some of the family charac-
teristics, he was Of Scotch Ancestry,
but is seems impossible to ascert4tn1
when he came into this country on
from what section, or whether he vas
born here. He was man OF excel
lent character and Confederate SOL
der who served through the war
faithfully and bravely as q private
In civil life and in the county he wa
known as a man Of very quick tenn
per and a fighter, probably the cham
pion Of the county. but always using
his fists. He wa not ferociouS or
savage, but he was ready TO take Of
fense on small provocation or to ac-
cept anything that could suggest It.
self to an eager mind as a challenge.
In q cove of the mountains he
brought up seven boys and two girls.
All these sons and daughters Of his
grew up to be thrifty, OF very much
quicker mind than their average
neighbor and given to battle. All Of
them seems to have prospered abund-
antly according to the standard Of
their section. All the boys acquired
land and homes and proved them
selves to be good business men. Nat
urally they established strong and
wide influence. They had tho COM
bined force of brains, unusual oour-
age and aggressiveness and q strong
family or clan feeling which held
them together, and enabled them y
act practically aa sprganixatih
+They were proudTo' V S}BWEl ~ :,
fighting Aliens. They would NIT
singly; when 1t became necessary to
maintain their family tradition, Of
supremacy they fought together. On
occasions when their .tempers.. which
they seemed rather to cultivate, broke
over all bounds they would fight each
other.
A Battle Of Brothers.
A few years ago Floyd and Jack
Allen, brothers, became involved In |
some dispute and Jack shot Floyd
through the body. Floyd fell insensi-
BILE or fainting and Jack. in . fury
Of rage, beat him about the head
with the barrel Of a revolver until
actually the blows on his skull or the
flow OF blood revived the wounded
man, and with some weapon, knife or
pistol, he wounded Jack desperately.
Floyd Allen did not recover from his
wound in many months, and he and
his brother were regarded as at dead |
ly feud. Everybody expected that
they would kill each other. One day
they met in the court houes yard at
Hillsville. One Of them immediately
drew his revolver, but the other
quietly beckoned him aside and they |
had q conversation in undertone; the
final result Of which was that they
became firm friends.
Backing Moonshiners.
Nobody knows positively. 80 far as
can be learned here, that the Aliens |
engaged directly in moonshining. 1t
was suspected through the county, |
that they were the hackers |
Of many small Illicit distilleries, help |
ed the moonshiners by giving them
protection and warning and in plac- |
ing their product and took consider |
able shares OF the profits. sidna Allen, |
for instance, owned thousand acres |
Of good land, has handsome country |
the imaginative cor
have exaggerated It's val |
ue very iaTgeiy-and a stors, ssED!y- /
ing the neighborhood with goods. 1t
is said he has number Of tenants
on his place and that he has lent
and advanced, goods TO many |
Of his poorer neighbors.
Naturally these conditions make |
him not only powerful, but popular.
He is a kind of king Of q little prin- |
with his dependents, bound to
him by obligation and affection; for
he is good and kind II ,imperious
liberal and hospitable. his