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Note: s at Mattoon. He was one of the original locators of one half of that city, James Cunningham having laid out the east half. In 1864, Mr. Allison leased a cotton plantation thirty miles below Vicksburg and went down there to start operations. He carried about $50,000 in currency on his person and had some sixty head of mules and horses on the place. The provisions were shipped to him by boat, but the first boatload was sunk and his partner, Thomas A. Apperson, went to negotiate for another supply. At that time the land was infested with guerrillas, and before the return of Mr. Apperson, they had visited the plantation and killed Mr. Allison and run off his stock.
Note: J.L. Allison, Sr., was general land agent for the Illinois Central Railway, with headquarter
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