Born in Putnam, Tennessee, United States
Ancestors 
Sister of
Samuel Allison [half], John Allison [half], Laura Francis Allison [half], Eliza Ann (Allison) Maxwell [half], George Alexander Allison [half], James Lafayette Allison [half], Joseph Anderson Allison [half], Franklin Pierce Allison [half], William Earl Allison and Unnamed Allison
Wife of
Louis Dow Maddux
— married
3 Jul 1904 in Putnam, Tennessee, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Ralph Rhea Maddux, Lawrence Page Maddux, Clifford Earl Maddux, Eugene Maddux, Alta Christine Maddux, [private daughter (1920s - unknown)] and [private son (1920s - unknown)]
Died
at age 95
in Putnam, Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Jul 2013
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Biography
Her father Capt in Union Army was home on leave when 3 CSA soldiers killed 3 union soldiers and dressed in their uniforms. Capt McCaleb thinking they were some of his own men went out to talk to them. Just as he did so Catherine came across the doorway and took a bullet meant for her father. She carried that bullet until her death. Story told by Margaret to her son Clifford Earl Maddux.
She wrote for several papers at the time as the "Maid of Cane Creek". Margaret says Capt McCaleb her grandfather taught her to read.
Margaret writes in her memoirs that in October 1962 she was the only one is this family still living along with one sister-in-law Ura Gentry Allison
Buried Gentry Cem Putnam Co TN
Sources
- Year: 1900; Census Place: Civil District 16, Putnam, Tennessee; Roll: 1593; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0076; FHL microfilm: 1241593
- Year: 1910; Census Place: Civil District 16, Putnam, Tennessee; Roll: T624_1516; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0093; FHL microfilm: 1375529
- Ancestry.com. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
- Year: 1930; Census Place: District 16, Putnam, Tennessee; Roll: 2269; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 0019; Image: 167.0; FHL microfilm: 2342003
- Find A Grave Memorial# 42962261
- Personal memory, daughter Elsie Peterson
- Memoirs of Margaret Arizona Allison preserved by Carleen Duke for the UCGA
- Stray Leaves from Putnam County by Mary Hopson
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Holly Knight for creating Allison-1129 on 25 Jul 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Holly and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret:
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~1.56%
Jo McCaleb
:
23andMe, yourDNAportal JMCb4852946
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jcrockett
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T413897 [compare], yourDNAportal JMCb4852946, FTDNA kit #549851
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~0.78%
Linda Ware :
23andMe, GEDmatch A986677 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A986677 [compare], Ancestry member lerweb
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A986677 [compare]
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MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
Robert Brown :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member robert_f_brown71
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B636614
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~0.78%
Myrtle Mandane Ennis :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Harold Ray :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch cm6095741 [compare], Ancestry member dixoncrs
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Kay Ensor :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T695656 [compare], FTDNA kit #458297
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