Here are details on this branch of the Allen family, from which I descend:

Well friends, here is my brick wall.

Who is the father of Daniel Allen (born c. 1750-1765, died 1834/5 in Giles County, TN)? His siblings were Moses, William, Sampson, Bethel, Charity,Nancy, and Thomas Allen, Jr. Daniel was born in North Carolina or Virgnia.

I do not know where his siblings were born, except for Thomas Allen, Jr., who was born abt 1790 in Reidesville, Rockingham County, NC. Daniel Allen removed to Washington County, TN abt 1786 and married Alathea Hale there
about 1788. He owned a plantation along Cedar Creek in Sullivan County, TN. About 1800, he moved west to Smith County,near Liberty, TN (which is present DeKalb County), and about 1808 to Giles County, TN. He was said to have
been a member of the Mount Moriah Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Giles County, TN. His younger brothers Bethel and Sampson may have moved with him as far as Smith County, and then migrated to Missouri as that state was
settled. His youngest brother, Thomas Allen, Jr. moved to Lawrence County, MO abt 1840 and sired a long line of Allens, many descendents of whom remain in that part of Missouri (a beautiful area indeed.)

Descendents of Thomas Allen, Jr. believe the father was Thomas Allen or Rockingham County, and that Daniel Allen was the elder brother. Others think that this Daniel
Allen was related to the family of Joseph Allen and Daniel Allen, Sr. of Rockingham County, NC, back to the Allens of Stafford County, VA, and may have been the cousin of a man named Benjamin Allen (born mid-1700s, died TN abt 1830-40)

Daniel Allen is said by his wife to have served during the Revolutionary War in the Guilford County, NC militia under an officer named William Bethel. Indeed, the name Bethel appears to this day as a middle or first name among
his descendents. In papers filed for a Rev War pension application, his wife states that her husband was the son of a Thomas Allen, a farmer of Rockingham County, NC. But, I can find no indication of this. There are many Allens in Rockingham County, NC but I cannot figure out a connection.

Additional amplification here. Daniel Allen's eldest son was Richard Hale Allen, born abt 1794 in Tennessee. He was raised in Giles County, TN and lived there until his father died, when he moved a few miles west to Lawrence County, TN. There, he opened and ran a stage coach/tavern called "Allen's Stand" in Ethridge, TN. There is an Allen burial ground there now, adjacent to his old property. Richard Hale Allen did well in life, serving as an official in the local militia and particpating in the development of the railroad across TN and down to Corinth, MS. He also owned land in Corinth, MS and operated a large plantation there. He also may have been an official of the Confederate government during the War of Northern ggression.

Richard Hale Allen's eldest son was William Bethel Allen. He died young at the Battle of Monterey (1846) during the Mexican American War. He lead a charge of the Tennessee Volunteers, but was cut down immediately. There is a
mounument to his troops in the town square in Lawrenceburg, TN.

I descend from another son of Richard Hale Allen, Richard Bethel Allen. He was born about 1835 in Lawrence County, TN and died in Van Buren, AR in 1908. He was married to Adella Elizabeth Rose of Lawrence County, TN. Richard Bethel Allen served as an officer in the Mississippi troops during the Civil War. After the war, he ended up in Van Buren, AR, where he developed real estate and ran a brick yard.