Mary Allred

by Jackie Spendlove Leatham, 3^rd great granddaughter

Mary Allred was born 30 Nov. 1783 in Randolph, North Carolina to William Allred and Elizabeth Thrasher.   Mary was the oldest sister by one year to James Allred who settled Spring City, Utah in 1852.

She married David Sanders, son of Moses  Sanders, in 1802  at Franklin County, Georgia.  David was born around 1775, Irdll County, North Carolina.  A deed of land describes the Moses Sanders’ property as “being next to ‘old William Allred place’ — Old William or Old place?  Maybe the two families just moved along together.”

(Louis E. Allred Family Record, by Archibald Bennett).

Mary’s three oldest children, Moses Martin, William Hamilton, and Sarah (Sally) were born in Banks Co.(now Franklin), Georgia.  The family was in Bedford County (now Marshall County), Tennessee, when Nancy was born in 1810, and David James in 1815. 

Mary’s husband, David,  died 11 Jan 1815 at Bedford, Tennessee leaving Mary, a young widow, of thirty-three years. Only five years later, Mary passed away on 19 May 1820.  Her oldest child, Moses Martin, was seventeen, her youngest child, David James, was five.  

Although Mary died before the Gospel was restored, her son Moses Martin recognized the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and was baptized on 28 Jan 1835.  He and his wife, Amanda Armstrong Fausett, gathered with the Latter-Day Saints at Farr West (1836), Quincy (1839), and Nauvoo, Illinois.  Before Moses Martin left Nauvoo for Winter Quarters, he was blessed to lead prayers held in the Nauvoo Temple on 14 Mar 1846, 29 Mar 1846, and 31 Mar 1846. (Journal of History of the Church).   His family then removed to Winter Quarters, Council Bluffs, West Jordan (1850), Fairview (1858/9),  and eventually St. George, Utah (1865) where Moses Martin helped build the first temple in the West dedicated to the Lord in this dispensation.  Mary Allred, the mother of Moses Martin,  was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the St. George temple on the 21 Feb. 1877, and her endowments were performed on the 22 Feb. 1877. 

Mary’s grandson, Joseph Moroni, was born  25 Dec. 1836, the night his family was driven from their home in Farr West, Clay, Missouri. This same grandson was baptized on his birthday, 25 Dec. 1844 in a hole cut out of  the ice of the  frozen Mississippi River just out of Nauvoo. Joseph Moroni married Hulda Charlotte Zabriskie, the daughter of Lewis Curtis Zabriskie, on 20 Aug. 1860 at Fairview, Sanpete, Utah. Lewis Curtis Zabriskie and his wife, Mary Higbee, came to Utah with the Garden Grove Company in 1851, and eventually settled in Spring City, Utah, which was originally called “The Allred Settlement.”