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Newsletter # 9, pg 9, October 1991 History of Isaac Allred submitted by: V. Con Osborne (Isaac, William, Thomas) For more family histories written about Isaac Allred, visit his page on the Allred Family Roster. Go Note: The following history is an abridgement of a copy of Isaac's history as written by him in 1849. This copy was in the possession of my mother, Athlene Allred Osborne, a great grand daughter of Isaac. "I, Isaac Allred, the son of James Allred, was born the 20th of June, 1814, in Bedford County, Tennessee. Here I was raised on a farm until I was 17 years old, at which time my family moved to Monroe County, Missouri. Here we were admitted into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1832. Later the same year I was married to Julia Ann Taylor. The following spring I marched with the Prophet Joseph Smith to Clay County, Missouri to help liberate the Saints (the Zion's Camp March). In the fall of 1835, I, in the company of my father and others, moved to Clay County, where we stayed one year and raised one crop. But this year our people became careless to the non-members living among them; some resolutions were passed and it was decided that it was best for our people to live by themselves. In October of 1836, we moved with the Church to Caldwell County. I bought land from the government and made a far. In the year of 1837 I was ordained an Elder. In the fall of that year, at the request of the prophet Joseph Smith, I, in the company of Benjamin L. Cluff, went out to preach the gospel to the people. We traveled eleven hundred miles. I spoke at Brooks Cedars and baptized eleven. Later on that year, after putting my crop in, I left on my second mission. We traveled by steamer to St. Louis, then up the Ohio River where we commenced preaching. On this mission, I traveled two thousand one hundred miles, preached 35 times, and baptized four souls, before returning home. The Church was mobbed and driven out of Missouri in the fall of 1838. We settled in military land in Illinois and took out a lease for five years. I made some improvements and remained one year, then moved to Nauvoo, built a house and did the best I could for a living. After some months I left with Solomon Hancock for a mission to Missouri after they had driven us out. We baptized some, organized a branch and returned home. I went to work for Mr. Law, cutting timber. I remained with him for two years. The mob in Illinois raised against the church and killed the Prophet and his brother, Hyrum. The Nauvoo Legion was organized and I was commissioned colonel on the Fifth Regiment in the Legion. The Law family left the Church and relieved me of my place. I moved back to my home and went to work on the Temple and stayed until it was finished. During this the toils and privations of life, the afflictions in sickness and the death of brothers and sisters and friends, my pen cannot print. In February, 1846, we left Nauvoo and crossed the Mississippi River to the state of Iowa. I being perfectly destitute of anything to help myself. We stayed at Garden Grave for two years, at which time, I traveled from place to place suffering the entire loss of what little property I had. President (Brigham) Young, finding out my condition, sent for me to leave Garden Grove. By the help of my father, we left in the spring of 1848 and moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Here I made a crop and built a house. I was elected Constable at the August election. I was called by President Young to travel and preach to the branches of the Church. With this sketch there are thousands of other circumstances that I should have like to of written that my history be more complete, but being poor and being driven to the extremity, I must omit them. My father's family (1849) is scattered to the four winds of heaven. My oldest brother (William Hackley Allred) left the Church, the next one (Martin Carrel Allred) died, and my three youngest sisters are in three different states, and my two brothers (actually one brother, James T. S. Allred and a nephew, Reuben Warren Allred, son of Martin Carrel, who was raised as a brother after his father's death, as well as two cousins, Redick N. and James Riley) drug off into the service of the United States (Mormon Battalion) after being driven from their homes and robbed of their property. I thank the Lord that I yet live and have a standing in the Church. Wednesday, December 20th, 1849. All is well. Thank God." Note: Isaac Allred crossed the plains in 1851 as a captain of a company of Saints (followers). With his family, he settled in Kaysville, Utah. He served a mission (his fourth?) to Great Britain from 1853 to 1855. After his mission, he moved to Ogden and then to Ephraim, where his parents lived. He married Mary Henderson in Nauvoo and in 1856 he got into an argument with Thomas Ivie over sheep and was hit with a burning log from the campfire and killed. By his three wives, he fathered seventeen children.
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