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Marriage: Children:
  1. Elijah Allen: Birth: 24 Feb 1853 in Provo, Utah, Utah. Death: 2 Nov 1876

  2. William Allen: Birth: 17 Apr 1854 in Provo, Utah, Utah. Death: 21 Jan 1895

  3. Eliza Ann Allen: Birth: 1 Jun 1856 in Fort Herriman, Salt Lake, UT. Death: 8 Jul 1912 in Cove, Cache, Utah

  4. James Carson Allen: Birth: 21 Mar 1858 in Ft. Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah. Death: 8 Feb 1935 in Cove, Cache, Utah

  5. Andrew Bickmore Allen: Birth: 23 Dec 1859 in Ft. Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah. Death: 14 Apr 1941 in Cove, Cache, Utah

  6. Henry Heber Allen: Birth: 11 Mar 1862 in Ft. Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah. Death: 26 Mar 1941 in Logan, Cache, Utah

  7. Joseph Smith Allen: Birth: 20 Oct 1863 in Ft. Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah. Death: 9 May 1933 in Santa Ana, Orange, CA


Notes
a. Note:   Elijah Allen - personal history Elijah Allen was born in 1826, baptized by elder Rogger Orton, Confirmed by Sidney Rigdon in Kirtland Temple 1836. About the first of February 1846, I left Nauvoo and drove a team for President Young and passed through those times in common with the saints to Council Bluffs and helped to ferry and cross the way over the Missouri River.
  ELIJAH ALLEN
  ELIJAH ALLEN, the oldest son of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen, was born in the town of Burton, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., 7 Feb. 1826. His father was a prosperous farmer who owned a large grove of sugar maple trees and a nice home. After the family joined the Church, they sold this home and moved to Kirtland, Ohio. From Kirtland the family moved from place to place and endured many hardships.
 W hi 1 e Elijah was still in his teens he went out to try and find work. He went west and crossed the Mississippi River and traveled through the country for sometime but failed to find any work so he returned, to Nauvoo, Illinois and called on President Brigham Young and asked for counsel. President Young told him to stop with him and go to work, which he did. He remained with President Young until the Church moved west and drove a team through to Winter Quarters on the Missouri River. While they were at Winter Quarters the government made a call for 500 men and President Young asked Elijah if he would go. He accepted. President Young then gave him a blessing and told him he would make the o urn e y in safety and return again to his parents in good health. He marched as a private in Company �B� to California. While on his way to California he became seriously Ill and the party was compelled to wait several days for him to recover. One e v en in g as the company sat around the campfire deciding what to do next, Elijah heard the captain of the Company �B� make the remark that they were due at a certain place at a certain time and that Mr. Allen's sickness was the only thing that was holding them back, so they decided to put him in the back of a wagon and travel with him anyway. Their plans were to start before daylight the next morning. During the night as he did not feel well enough to make the trip and was afraid that the party would be compelled to stop again on his account, he crawled out of the wagon and off into the sagebrush to die. As he lay there suffering he heard the wagons pulling out, leaving him behind. The thought of Brigham Young's blessing came to his m in d and he thought to himself, this is one time Brigham Young's prophecies would not be fulfilled. When all wagons were out of sight he crawled back to the campfire, lie down and fell asleep. There he had a dream that the things Brigham Young had told him would come to pass.
 As the hours went by the doctor of the Company decided that he had better look back into the wagon and see how the sick man was and he discovered that he wasn't there. This provoked the captain and he said, �That is just like that Independent boy� and he ordered some men to turn back and find him. They found him lying asleep by the campfire. After scolding him severely, he was placed back into the wagon and they started again on the Journey. It seemed to the sick man that the jolts of the wagon were almost more than he could bear. By nightfall, however, he was feeling better, and gradually he gained strength as the days went by. After reaching California he was discharged, along with the other members of his camp, on i6 July 1847. (21 years of age.)
 Again he was taken ill. After his recovery this time he obtained employment at the San Gabriel Mission where he worked until 1848. In February of that year, together with about a dozen other men, he started for Great Salt Lake Valley with about 200 head of cattle that had been purchased for the Church. After a difficult journey he arrived in Salt Lake Valley in the latter part of May 1848. He traded a sac k of gold dust, which he had brought from California, for tw


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