Beverly Jean Hardy Allen is the daughter of Jeanette Jean Hilliard Hardy and Leroy Hardy. She is married to her high school sweetheart John Marshall Allen and is the mother of two children John Andrew Allen and Julianne Meredith Allen Albertson and grandmother of two grandsons, Jacob and Anthony and a granddaughter Avery Grace. She has been able to extract this story of her ancestors from research that she began in 2009 scanning government documents and books, traveling to Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma for research, and from interviews with her mother Jeanette Jean Hilliard. Discove...