The message board has spoken. Three facts stand out; Sarah Allison/mother, Mary Allison/ sister and John R. Allison/brother living together in Greencastle, Franklin County, Pennsylvania mid 1800. Now we have a set of names, a definite time period, a state, a county. Our hope now is that a more targeted search will turn up the Allison clan of our origins.
And it does.
We discover the antique world of genealogical books, chock full of facts, people, geographies about many counties in America. The Biographical Annals of Franklin County Pennsylvania is such a book. The publishers at the Genealogical Publishing of Chicago "feel that they are meeting what is now recognized as a necessity in every intelligent community...Sketches, Items of historical interest, family genealogies...beyond the bios of public men... preserved for the thoughtful reader...."
How there could ever be enough audience in a single county of Pennsylvania to support such a publishing endeavor in is a puzzle. However, we are glad they did because on page 143 we find EXACTLY the reference we were hoping for:
"5. Samuel (Allison) married Sarah Gurley and they had issue: John R, Mary and Louisa."
Source:
https://archive.org/details/biographicalanna01seil
Biographical annals of Franklin county, Pennsylvania : containing genealogical records of representative families, including many of the early settlers, and biographical sketches of prominent citizens
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