Individual Details

Allison Furr (1809-1889) and his brother Tobias (1817-1882) were the progenitors of the north Mississippi Furrs while their great uncle, Leonard Furr (1756-1835) was the progenitor of the south Mississippi Furrs. His brothers Daniel Furr (1811-1876) and John Simpson Furr (1815-1842) also moved to Mississippi. Allison was born Friday, July 7, 1809 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. He was the first born of the 11 children of John Furr (1786-1837) and Sarah "Sally" Boger (1789-1857). Allison went to Mississippi in 1846, but returned to Concord, North Carolina. He went back to Mississippi in two covered wagons in 1848. This time he built a two story house on the land he purchased from the Indians. He farmed and raised his family on this land.

Allison was married four times, twice in North Carolina and twice in Mississippi. He had 13 children, five in North Carolina and eight in Mississippi. Three of his sons fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. His children were a homemaker, farmer, merchant, landlord, city/county official, real estate agent, banker, house painter, and carpenter. Four of his children moved to Texas while the rest remained in Mississippi.

Allison died Monday, July 15, 1889 in Toccopola, Mississippi. He, his first wife, two sons, and two daughters are buried in the Lebanon Cemetery, Lafayette County.

From "Mississippi A Guide to the Magnolia State," compiled and written by the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration, The Viking Press, New York, 1943, page 487:

Toccopola (Ind., the crossing of the Roads), was, before the white man came, an Indian village so old that in the annals of the Chickasaw the date is unknown. In 1840, however, two Carolinians, Tobias and Allison Furr, settled here. Tobias Furr built a water mill on the creek and Allison established a store at the crossing of two roads. Other settlers made home in the vicinity, and eventually the Indian name TOK-A-PULA was corrupted to Toccopola. Immediately following the War between the States, W. B. Gilmer, who was forced by a wound received in the war to forsake farming for school teaching as a profession, establishing Toccopola College, an academy for boys and girls. This college continued operation until 1907. Toccopola's future was shattered when the Gulf, Mobile & Northern R.R. passed it up in preference to Pontotoc, its rival.

On 1 October 1847, Allison Furr purchased 400 acres in Cabarrus County for $50 from William A. Furr, James B. Furr, Samuel M. Furr, Elizabeth C. Biggers, Jacob Shoulabaringer and wife, Mary Ann and Sarah L. Furr (Deed Book 18, page 91).

On 28 September 1850, Allison Furr sold 82 and 1/2 acres in Cabarrus County to William S. Brewer for $600 (Deed Book 18, page 394).

On 10 December 1868, Allison Furr sold 35 acres in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, to Souter and Wood for $105.

On 29, 1877, Representative Vannoy Hartrog Manning presented to the United States House of Representatives "The petitions of Silvia Cannon, Emma Sharpe, James Kennedy, Mrs. M. A. Cochran, Margaret C. Sloan, Solomon McMillican, Allison Furr, and William H. Carothey, of the counties of Union and La Fayette, Mississippi, for compensation for stores and supplies taken by the United States Army."

"My name is Eileen Nail and I am treasurer and keeper of the mailbox for the Winston County Genealogical and Historical Society.

I went to the courthouse today to try to track down this property and I'm afraid I got so confused that I gave up. Will try again after I think about this a while.

John Furr and Tobias Furr patented land in Section 34 Township 15
Range 14N. John Furr also patented land in Section 35. None of that land matches the descriptions you sent. The patents were in the fall of 1835.

In Deed Book G page 157, Henry Furr to Tobias Furr land that belonged to John Furr, deceased of Cabarrus County, North Carolina.

ibid page 159, John Furr to Henry Furr same as above

ibid page 160, Tobias Furr to Daniel Furr same as above.
These deeds are dated 15 September, 1841, and mentions that the land was in three shares. "

Per Debi Baugh, Clemintine Rinehardt was married to another Allison Furr (21 April 1860). The 1860 census (Cabarrus County) shows him as 21 and her as 22. The 1850 census has this Allison as 40 which would be correct.

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Birth	7 Jul 1809	Cabarrus County, NC
Marriage	15 Dec 1834	Cabarrus County, NC - Hessie McKinley BLACK
Marriage	7 Jan 1843	Cabarrus County, NC - Mary Ann Susan MEANS
Marriage	28 Sep 1865	Pontotoc County, MS - Elizabeth HALL
Marriage	1 Jan 1868	Pontotoc County, MS - Catherine "Kate, Katy, and Katie" JOHNSTON
Occupation	1870	farmer - Pontotoc County, MS
Occupation	1880	farmer - Lafayette County, MS
Death	15 Jul 1889	Toccopola, Pontotoc County, MS
Burial		Lebanon Cemetery, Lafayette County, MS

Spouse	Hessie McKinley BLACK (1815 - 1842)
Child	Mary Ann FURR (1836 - 1910)
Child	John Simpson FURR (1838 - 1881)
Child	William Meek FURR (1840 - 1906)

Spouse	Mary Ann Susan MEANS (1821 - 1863)
Child	James Stacy FURR (1845 - 1934)
Child	Sarah Elisabeth FURR (1847 - 1940)
Child	Martha J. "Mattie" FURR (1849 - 1933)
Child	Margaret M. FURR (1852 - )
Child	Paul Barringer FURR (1858 - 1950)

Spouse	Elizabeth HALL (1828 - 1867)
Child	Henry FURR (1866 - 1867)

Spouse	Catherine "Kate, Katy, and Katie" JOHNSTON (1835 - 1913)
Child	Henry Byron FURR (1868 - 1944)
Child	Hester "Hessie" FURR (1870 - 1931)
Child	Rufus Joe "Ruff" FURR (1873 - 1907)
Child	Joseph Lee "Joe" FURR (1874 - 1950)

Father	John FURR (1786 - 1837)
Mother	Sarah "Sally" BOGER (1789 - 1857)
Sibling	Henry Nelson FURR (1810 - 1886)
Sibling	Daniel FURR (1811 - 1876)
Sibling	John Simpson FURR (1815 - 1841)
Sibling	Tobias FURR (1817 - 1882)
Sibling	Elizabeth Caroline "Betsy" FURR (1819 - 1892)
Sibling	Mary Anne "Polly" FURR (1821 - 1900)
Sibling	William Allen FURR (1824 - 1849)
Sibling	James Burton "Burt" FURR (1826 - 1897)
Sibling	Samuel Monroe "Sam" FURR (1828 - 1918)
Sibling	Sarah Louise FURR (1831 - 1883)

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