From the Cleveland Progress, Friday Aug 9, 1895 Under the heading Blue Ridge Items

"Uncle Thomas Allison, the oldest man in Blue Ridge, died on Sunday morning, the 28th at 12:30 o'clock. Uncle Tom will be missed very much. He was 81 years old and the father of 22 children 16 of whom are alive. His first wife died on the same bedstead about 38 years ago. His remains were entered at Mt. Pleasant Monday at 11 o'clock. The Rev. C. C. Spence preached the funeral."