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State of Service: PA/VA
Qualifying Service: Private
Gavin "Gauis" Allison was born, January 29, 1759, at Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
During the Revolutionary War, Gavin Allison served in the Virginia Militia and later the Washington County, Pennsylvania, Militia. He was a private in the Fourth Company, Third Battalion, of the Washington County Militia, in 1781. He lived at Cecil Township at the time. Prior to 1781, the area where Allison lived was claimed by Virginia and Pennsylvania. The boundary was settled in 1780. Washington County, Pennsylvania, was organized in 1781. This area of Cecil Township later became part of Saint Clair Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Gavin Allison married Mary W. Koontz about 1802. She was born June 22, 1776, at Loudoun County, Virginia. They were the parents of seven known children: John, Nancy Jane, Thomas, James Henry, Samuel, Jonathan N., and Mary Brownlee.
In 1834, Allison and his family moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Gavin Allison died December 28, 1838, at Clarksville, Pennsylvania. He was buried at the Old Glenwood Cemetery of Clarksville. The site of Clarksville is, as of the time of this writing, under the Shenango Reservoir, created by the completion of the Shenango Dam in 1965. Gavin Allison’s grave plot was moved to New Glenwood Cemetery, at Clark. Clark replaced the flooded site of Clarksville. After Gavin Allison's death, Mary Koontz Allison lived with her son, Jonathan N. Allison, at Delaware Township, Mercer County. By 1860, Jonathan Allison and his family moved to Rush Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Mary Koontz Allison died January 16, 1866, at Jo Daviess County, Illinois. She was buried at the Long Hollow Cemetery at Elizabeth Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois.
References:
Allison, James R., compiler: The Descendants of John Allison of Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Revolutionary War Pension R156.
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