Hugh Brown ALLEN

   General Notes:

!Hugh is originally from Missouri and moved to Texas with his family. He left there to go to California during the gold rush. Hugh is mentioned in the story, "Tales of the Trail" by Arabella Clemens Fulton. Hugh Brown Allen and Arabella's husband Frank Fulton had originally met in California during the gold excitement and had tramped from one mine to another, all through California and at last went to the Bannock mines of Idaho. Hugh is listed on the first Poll Lists of Idaho Territory in 1863 at Placerville precinct, Boise Co. After becoming tired of mining they decide to try their hand at a new industry. They bought a pack train of fifteen mules and horses and began to pack supplies to the mines from the Umatilla Landing on the Columbia River. One winter they wintered their stock in Boise valley and decided to stay there and start ranches. This is where he met his future wife, Hannah Schooler and her family. Richard Schooler, Hannah's brother, Warren Lockman, Frank Fulton, and Hugh formed a cattle company to buy Texas long-horn cattle to raise in Idaho, and after it didn't work out the way they planned, they eventually went to Texas. Before getting there, they first went to Arkansas, evidently to pick up Hugh's family to go to Texas with them. Not exactly an easy endeavor in that day and age, expecially since Arkansas is not on the trail from Idaho to Texas. Hugh and Hannah stayed in Texas the rest of their lives near his family. But her family didn't stay, they returned to Idaho and settled in the Hagerman Valley. Frank and Arabella Fulton went on to Washington and settled at Ellensburg in Kittitas Co. !MARRIAGE:Ada Co., Idaho Marriages witnessed by Richard Schooler, Hannah's brother. !DEATH:Sycamore Cemetery, Wise Co., Texas Records !MILITARY:Hugh served in William R. Shoemaker's Co. D State Troops. In 1864 they wre transfered to the Confederate troops. !CENSUS:1850 Tarrant Co., Texas, Navarro District !CENSUS:1860 Wise Co., Texas, Catlett Creek !CENSUS:1870 Ada Co., Idaho, Boise next door is his sister Mary Ann and her husband Thomas H. (Doc) Calloway. Three house away is Warren Lockman, living with a Ligget family and four houses away is Frank and Arabella Fulton, all partners with Hugh Allen and Richard Schooler in the cattle venture. !CENSUS:1880 Wise Co., Texas, precinct 6 pg 227 next door is his sister, Sabina Eads.

   Marriage Information:

Hugh married Hannah Elizabeth SCHOOLER, daughter of Harrison SCHOOLER and Mary Elizabeth DILLON, on 28 Mar 1867 in Middleton, Ada, Idaho. (Hannah Elizabeth SCHOOLER was born on 27 May 1847 in Agency, Wapello, Iowa and died in 1910-1920 in Sycamore, Wise, Texas.)