Property Information Package 118± Acres Selling in 5 Tracts with Historic Cabin and Barn in Wayne and Hardin Counties (5) 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] Table of Contents Aerial Map 1 Auction Tract Map 7 Information about Clay Allison 8 Tax Information for 04100200 19 Tax Information for 07100200 21 Title Commitment 24 Tract Map 27 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] Aerial Map 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] 1 Table of Contents Aerial Map 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] 2 Table of Contents Aerial Map 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] 3 Table of Contents Aerial Map 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] 4 Table of Contents Aerial Map 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] 5 Table of Contents Aerial Map 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] 6 Table of Contents Auction Tract Map 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] 7 Table of Contents Information about Clay Allison ALLISON, ROBERT CLAY C. L. Sonnichsen ALLISON, ROBERT CLAY (1841–1887). Clay Allison, gunfighter, the fourth of nine children of Jeremiah Scotland and Mariah R. (Brown) Allison, was born on a farm in Wayne County, Tennessee, on September 2, 1841. His father was a row crop farmer. When the Civil War (/handbook/online/articles/qdc02) broke out, Allison joined Phillips' Tennessee Light Artillery Company in the Confederate Army. On January 15, 1862, he received a medical discharge for emotional instability resulting from a head injury as a child, but in September he reenlisted as a cavalryman with Company F, Col. Jacob B. Biffle's Nineteenth Tennessee Cavalry. The regiment was with Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in the fall of 1864 through the spring of 1865 and surrendered at the war's end with Forrest's Cavalry Corps. He was a prisoner of war in Alabama from May 4 to 10, 1865. After the war Allison moved to the Brazos River country in Texas. Allison soon signed on as a cowhand with Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight (/handbook/online/articles/fgo11) and may have been among the eighteen herders on the 1866 drive that blazed the Goodnight­Loving Trail (/handbook/online/articles/ayg02) . He was in Colfax County, New Mexico, by the spring of 1871 when he accidentally shot himself in the foot while he and some companions stampeded a herd of Gen. Gordon Granger's army mules as a prank. In 1872 Allison's future brother­in­law L. G. Coleman and ranching partner I. W. Lacy moved to a spread in Colfax County, New Mexico. Allison drove their herd to the new ranch for a payment of 300 cattle, with which he started his own ranch near Cimarron. Eventually he built it into a lucrative operation. 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] 8 Table of Contents Information about Clay Allison Allison was a heavy drinker and became involved in several brawls and shooting sprees. On October 30, 1875, he may have been in a mob that seized and lynched Cruz Vega, who was suspected of murdering a Methodist circuit rider. Two days later Allison killed gunman Pancho Griego, a friend of Vega, in a confrontation at the St. James Hotel in Cimarron. In January 1876 a drunken Allison wrecked the office of the Cimarron News & Press because of a scathing editorial. He allegedly later returned to the newspaper office and paid $200 for damages. In December of that year Clay and his brother John were involved in a dance­hall gunfight at Las Animas, Colorado, in which a deputy sheriff was killed. For this Allison was arrested and charged with manslaughter, but the charges were later dismissed on grounds of self­defense. Allison was arrested as an accessory to the murder of three black soldiers the following spring, but evidence was sketchy and he was soon acquitted. In 1878 he sold his New Mexico ranch to his brother John for $700 and moved to Hemphill County, Texas, on land located at the junction of Gageby Creek and the Washita River. By 1880 Clay and his brothers, Jeremiah Monroe Allison and John Allison, had settled on the Gageby Creek land next door to their sister Saluda Ann and her husband Louis G. Coleman and fellow Tennesseans, the J. C. Hoggett family. Clay registered an ACE brand for his cattle. On February 15, 1881, he married Dora McCullough in Mobeetie, Wheeler County, Texas. The couple had two daughters. Though Allison served as a juror in Mobeetie, and though age and marriage had slowed him down some, his reputation as the "Wolf of the Washita" was kept alive by reports of his unusual antics. Once he was said to have ridden nude through the streets of Mobeetie. In 1883 he bought a ranch located on the Texas­New Mexico border northwest of Pecos and became involved in area politics. On July 3, 1887, while hauling supplies to his ranch from Pecos he was thrown from his heavily loaded wagon and fatally injured when run over by its rear wheel. He was buried in the Pecos Cemetery the next day. On August 28, 1975, in a special ceremony, his remains were reinterred in Pecos Park, just west of the Pecos Museum. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Carl W. Bretham, Great Gunfighters of the West (San Antonio: Naylor, 1962). Norman Cleaveland, Colfax County's Chronic Murder Mystery (Santa Fe: Rydal, 1977). J. Frank Dobie, "Clay Allison of the Washita," Frontier Times, February 1943. Chuck Parsons, Clay Allison: Portrait of a Shootist 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] 9 Table of Contents Information about Clay Allison (Seagraves, Texas: Pioneer, 1983). Richard C. Sandoval, "Clay Allison's Cimarron," New Mexico Magazine, March–April 1974. F. Stanley [Stanley F. L. Crocchiola], Clay Allison (Denver: World, 1956). What (#) The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article. Handbook of Texas Online, C. L. Sonnichsen, "Allison, Robert Clay," accessed April 10, 2018, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fal39. Uploaded on June 9, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association. report an error (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/feedback/revision-form?haid=2273&title=ALLISON%2C+ROBERT+CLAY&tid=fal39) 615-517-7675 www.mclemoreauction.com [email protected] 10 Table of Contents Information about Clay Allison • ·-.. "TellMe A Good Story!" ·'E sseans History Cly By Wagoner, around with a Colt on their "shootist"as Uncle Clay. accident with the wagon. A hip, wtlcss they violated the It is likely that Clay rode sack of feed slipped perhaps, Cou11ryHistarian law. TI1en Wyatt Earp slapped in and talked to Earp, got the and he reacl,ed for it. Perhaps From the day that Oay them in jail. If theyresisted he explan.-i.tionthat Hoytwas hur­ the wagon struck a rock or Allison married Dora "buffaloed" them ,vith a gun rahing the town the night he boulder and threw Clay into • Mt.-Coulloughhe was a changed barrel! had been shot. Had already the path of the wheel. He died man. N�paper accounts show picked up his gun and fired it a painful death but the reputa• There is no doubt that he that Wyatt Earp was a non­ illegally as he started to ride tion Clay had so painstakingly , had hcen a violent man, medi­ violen officerduring his stayIn out. Wyatt probably told Clay tried to clear up, it preceeded ' cally a<..'Claimeda manic depres­ Dodgr,C. ity.That stay ended in that it was dark, late at night him in death. sant. Mixrd with some alcohol 1879 so this puts the shooting and twoor three of themwere Clay Allison had nut beenan and it made a deadly combina­ and the entry of Clay during firing. That someone in the outlaw,not a bad-man, not one ' tion. Clay's wild times. But thetruth bunch hit Hoyt in the legand to f-ear- wuess vouhad tried to The truth in the Allison be given, it just didn't happen he died three WL'Cks later from mess with himor talc<' some­ case, is thal the pressof the day liketl,e pulpwriters printed it. blood poisoning. That would thing that belonged to him, added to Allison's reputation. Wyatt Earp was a lawman have satisfiedClay. say cattle. Ironically, Monroe Ht• was a handful,mostly when by d:orand a gambler at night. The other storv that was died a few weeks later at a wbrked ' he got to drinking, either in Pbotoby Jim Thompson He doseto his brothers written stated that Clay rode wcll on the Texas ranch of a and often engaged the other in hell-bent for leather and Texasor NewMexico. JohnW. Mrs. Emily Callens, daughter of John W. Allison, looks heart attack. John W. settled lawmen of the day: Charlie belling up to the bar, full of back in Hardin County, TN., Allison at times owned ranch at a picture of Betty and John W. Both Monroe and land near C.'lay's property, the Bassett, Bat, Ed and Jim drinks he shot off his mouth Jed a peaceful and usclul life. land records shmv. John and John Allison are burled ln Mt. Cannal Cemetery where Masterson, Neal Brown and about getting even for Hoyt's His descendants in Hardin Claymarried sisters. tbe Gre.y Coat Cutter lnddent happened. Bill 'filghman. Likely, Wyatt killing. Nobody really believed County are: the Allisons, the MonroeAllison, theyounger would be tippedif Clay WqSon that story but it read good in Breckcnridges, the Duncans, The Allison's had ranched of it appeared in the Dodge therampa ge.