Dr. Franklin Marion Allen (b. February 22, 1832, d. September 15, 1900)
Dr. Franklin Marion Allen (son of Mathew Allen and Rebecca Drummond) was born February 22, 1832 in Woodruff, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, and died September 15, 1900 in Lexington, Texas. He married Augusta Basbee on January 1869 in Texas.
Notes for Dr. Franklin Marion Allen: "A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennon, Falls, Bell, and Coryell Counties-Texas" The Lewis Publishing Co. 1893
Dr. Frank Allen of Belton, Texas was born in South Carolina, February 22, 1832, the sixth in the family of twelve children born to his parents, he being a brother of Rev. John S. Allen, deceased whose sketch proceeds this.
Dr. Allen was educated in Alabama and at Cave Spring, Georgia. He began the study of medicine at Alexandria, Alabama, in 1850 with Dr. Elbert Allen, an older brother, and subsequently attended the University of Louisville, where he graduated in March 1855. He then began the practice of his profession in Alabama, and continued there until the outbreak of the late Civil War. He entered the Confederate service, as a private in Company D., Tenth Alabama Infantry, and was soon afterward made assistant surgeon of an Alabama battalion, serving as such 2 years. he was then elected Lieutenant of the company which he first entered, Company D, Tenth Alabama, and was promoted to the Captaincy. As Captain of the company he served with General Lee; was in all the battles with Lee in Virginia during the last two years of the war, and his company saw a great deal of hard fighting.
After the war, Dr. Allen again settled in Alabama, remaining there one year. October 1, 1866, he came to Texas and located at Lexington, Burleson County, where he established a medical practice, and remained until 1885. That year he came to Belton, where he has since remained. He is prominently identified with the medical profession here. He is a member of the Bell County Medical Association and also of the State Association, having severed as President of the Bell County Association for some time, and as vice president of the latter association.
he was married in 1869 to Miss Augusta Basbb, a native of Texas. her father, William B. M. Basbee, was killed while assisting to arrest a desperado. Mrs. Allen died in 1876, leaving two daughters, namely Stella, wife of A.J. Buchanan, a lawyer of Bryan, Texas; and Hallie Augusta who resides with her father.
More About Dr. Franklin Marion Allen and Augusta Basbee: Marriage: January 1869, Texas.
Dr. Franklin Marion Allen (b. February 22, 1832, d. September 15, 1900)
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