ALLEN MAXEY, the oldest child of Walter and Sarah (Allen) Maxey, was born in 1796, in Tennessee, and was first noted in the public records as a witness to his father's deed of purchase of 640 acres in Wilson County, Tennessee in 1811.

Allen's wife was Susan Unknown, but no record of their marriage can be found. She was born about 1797 in North Carolina. Allen and Susan spent some years in Alabama - - probably Lauderdale County - - where he was living on February 20, 1820 when the court of Lawrence County, Tennessee ordered that his deposition be taken, along with others named previously, as witnesses to a court action.

Allen and his family were then located in the 1830 census of Gibson County, Tennessee, by the time of the 1840 census they were in Weakley County, Tennessee.

On March 20, 1847 Allen received a grant of 180 acres from the State of Tennessee, located in Weakley County in District 12 on the waters of Cypress Creek. He started disposing of bits of this land almost immediately. On June 2, 1851 he sold to Edmund P. Latham for $40, the right to cut timber on the remainder of this land (155 acres), but on March 8, 1852 Allen sold the property to his son Allen, Jr., for $300. On several occasions when Allen owed money he conveyed by deed his entire crop of tobacco for the year - - crops that had been "raised and growed by myself and my son Allen Maxey, Jr."

As Allen died during the Civil War years no will or administration records could be located fro him in the will or minute books of Weakley County. His wife, Susan, dies intestate in 1866, and her son John applied for letters of administration in December of that year.

Son Samuel enlisted in the Confederate Army on July 15, 1862 in Columbus, Mississippi and served as a Private in Company I, 2nd Mississippi Calvary until the end of the war. He sustained a head wound in a battle in 1864 and was finally captured by Union forces in Georgia. Samuel's papers gave his place of residence at enlistment as Marion County, Alabama, where his older brother Benjamin lived, and Samuel and his second wife, Lucinda, were found there in the 1870 census. Lucinda later received a Confederate widow's pension from the State of Texas.