Reddin Alexander Allred (1822 - 1900)

Born 21 Feb 1822 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Julia Ann (Bates) Allred — married 1843 in IL

Husband of Leonora (Cannon) Gardner — married 27 Feb 1857 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Descendants

Died 18 Jun 1900 at age 78 in Hubbard, Graham, Arizona Territory, United States

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Biography

Reddin Allred was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Biography

Name: Reddin Alexander /Allred/

Birth:

Date: 21 FEB 1822

Place: Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA

Death:

Date: 18 JUN 1900

Place: Hubbard, Graham, Arizona, USA

Marriage:

Date: 21 DEC 1843

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA

Sources

• "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9B-HBVK : 10 February 2018), Reddin Alexander Allred, 07 Oct 1851; from "Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel: 1847-1868," database, > The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (https://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/ : 2004-).

• "Utah, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, 1847-1868," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KL71-Q79 : 1 March 2021), Redden Alexander Allred, ; excerpted from Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah: Comprising Photographs, Genealogies, Biographies (Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Pioneers Books, 1913).

Acknowledgements

Reddin was born on 21 February 1822 in Nashville, Tennessee to Isaac and Mary Allred.

Reddin Allred was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

He married Julia Ann Bates December 21, 1843 Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. He married Martha Brown Sanders on 22 Nov 1851. He married Lenora Cannon February 27, 1857 in Salt Lake City. Martha died in 1897.

His twin brothers' name is Reddick Newton Allred.

His father, Isaac and his family were among the fifteen Allred families who fled before the mobs when they were driven from Nauvoo. They crossed the Missouri River on the ice and escaped into bleak surroundings of that uninviting land with the faithful followers of President Brigham Young.

In the meantime, war had been declared against Mexico, and the recruitment of able-bodied men was proceeding in all parts of the country. It is well known how the officials of the United States Government ordered that the fleeing body of Mormons be overtaken and that 500 of their young men by drafted for with into the army. And this after having permitted and even assisted in the expulsion of the Saints from their own homes and lands! The army officers had been directed to get 500 men or, upon failure of the Mormons to supply them, to count this people as traitors fleeing under false pretenses and therefore worthy of extermination.

The Saints were overtaken in Indian territory. Upon hearing the demands of the government officials, Brigham Young replied, "We are law-abiding citizens, and if we haven't five hundred in men we will make up the number with stalwart women." He then advised the young men to join the army. He promised them that they would not have to shed the blood of their fellow men and that this affliction, heaped on them in the hour of their trials, would finally turn as a blessing upon their heads.

From the group of fifteen Allred families, several members volunteered to go with the "Mormon Battalion" Among these were Reddick N. Allred, James R. Allred, T.S. Allred, and Reuben W. Allred. Reddick Newton and Redden Alexander Redden were twin sons of Isaac.

-from his father Isaac Allred's history^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26027735/reddin-alexander-allred: accessed 18 August 2023), memorial page for Reddin Alexander Allred (22 Feb 1822–9 Jun 1900), Find a Grave Memorial ID 26027735, citing Thatcher Cemetery, Thatcher, Graham County, Arizona, USA; Maintained by David Metcalf (contributor 47040881).

Acknowledgements

This profile was created through the import of 7 Generation GEDCOM Call.ged on 30 January 2011.