OUR PIONEERS, ISAAC MORLEY ALLEN BY ADA ALLEN VERNON
Isaac Morley Allen was the son of Joseph Stewart Allen, who was the son of Daniel and Nancy Stewart Allen and Lucy Diantha Morley Allen, who was the daughter of Isaac and Lucy Gunn Morley.
He was born in Salt Lake City, March 28, 1849, that hard winter, which we have heard so much, when the pioneers suffered from hunger, cold and many other privations from which many lost their lives.
Mr. Allen's parents and grandparents crossed the plains with ox team in Heber C. Kimballs Company in 1848. They had to walk most of the way as they had only one wagon and one yoke of oxen to bring all their possessions.
GRANDFATHER NAMES MANTI
His grandfather, Isaac Morley was called by President Brigham Young to take a company of about fifty families and go and settle the Sanpete valley, which valley the settlers decided he should have the honor of naming. Being a great lover of the Book of Mormon, he chose the name of Manti. The settlers were all well-pleased with the name.
Grandfather Allen as we all called him went with his parents and grandparents in that company on November 22, 1849, when he was but eight months old and shared in all the privations and experiences of pioneering Manti.
They had many experiences with the Indians, some of which were not so pleasant.
At one time the Indians drove their cattle off and he went with his father to hunt them. It was in the dead of winter and very cold, so they had to walk most of the way to keep from freezing. As they were returning home he got very tired so his father had to let him ride, keeping close watch over him all the time. Soon his father saw he had become unconscious and it was all that he could do to bring him to. He rushed him home where they put him in a tub full of snow and rubbed him over very briskly with the snow until he revived. That was some experience he said and he suffered undescribable agony--that it was much worse to be brought back to life than it would have been to die.
He was burned severly at one time, when a small child and still wears the scars of those burns on his hands.
TAKES PART IN BLACK HAWK WAR
He and his family lived a short time at Pleasant Grove, also Provo, then they were called by President Young to go and settle the Muddy and also Moroni. He was in the Indian or Black Hawk War there which lasted several years and was a terrible struggle; the Indians being such a cruel and treacherous race. From there they went back to Manti. Here, in March 25, 1873 he married Harriett Amelia Squire, daughter of John P. and Adelia D. Squire.
CRIPPLED IN RUNAWAY
Through toil and sacrifice they built up a beautiful home and were blessed wtih four children, but lost their eldest son. They also had a great deal of sickness and many other trials to bear. At one time he was severly injured in a runaway, his leg being caught in the wagon wheel in such a manner that it was wound around the hub and bruised and mangled in a terrible manner. It was one of the most difficult tasks ever performed to get his leg free from that wagon wheel and remove all the pieces of bone, patch and place it in the best shape that the unexperienced doctors of that day could do. Although the doctor warned him to keep his leg straight it seemed an utter impossibility to do so, without the aid of a cast or splints of some kind, and such things had not been thought of at that time. After it had all healed the doctor had to jerk it loose again to straighten it, as it had drawn up as bent as a bow. We think that's where grandfather learned to be so wonderfully patient, lying there for more than a year suffering as we know he must have suffered without the aid of an anesthetic, or any of the modern medical conveniences.
LIVES UNITED ORDER
On December 4, 1881 he had the sad experience of loosing his wife. Soon afterward he moved to Orderville where most of his relatives then lived and enjoyed the experience of living in the United Order and working as a mechanic. Here on November 9, 1882 he married again a young girl by the name of Caroline Matilda Norwood.
When the order broke up they went back to Manti. Soon they moved to Ferron and from there to Huntington where they resided about twelve years, then he moved to Clifton in Southern Utah. In a few years, he with his two brothers and some other relatives moved to Victor, Idaho, where he bought a large farm, as he had done in the previous places where he had lived for he loved to farm, it was his hobby as well as his life's work.
MOVES TO VERNAL
In about three years just as he had his farm all cleared and under cultivation he moved to Vernal. Then hearing there was land to buy in Colorado he went to Fruita. There his little son Ray was drowned. He moved from there to Bennett where he got a farm of 160 acres which furnished plenty of work for himself and a large family of boys.
He was chosen second counselor to Alonzo Mitchell April 6, 1919.
He also labored as a home missionary and has been a faithful church worker all his life.
HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE
One day while they were all away from home they lost their home and all their possesions by fire not even being able to save their records or other valuables. They erected another nice house, but before it was entirely completed he again lost his companion on December 8, 1921. She was the mother of ten children, nine living.
Some years afterward he again moved to Vernal and bought a home in Maeser, where he has been busy tilling the soil ever since.
In 1926 he went to Manti to do some work in the temple and when he returned, we received the surprise of our life, for he brought home with him a new wife. It was on November 12, 1926 he married Aunt Isadora Losee Allen in the Manti Temple and Aunt Dora as we call her, has surely been a wonderful helpmate to him ever since. She has six living children, eighty-three grandchildren and forty-nine great-grandchildren.
He built up many homes and helped to pioneer these western valleys and helped make the desert blossom as the rose. He has lived a good, long, useful life ad had so many experiences that space will not permit the mentioning of but a very few of them here. Yes he has waded through rivers of sorrow, had trials not a few, but has swum the mighty current and come successfully through. Now at the ripe age of 86 he is still in the harness. He and his wife working hard raising two large lots full of garden, fruits and flowers each year, giving a great deal of it away to their friends and thoroughly enjoying the giving.
-Vernal Express, January 9 & 16, 1936, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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ISAAC MORLEY ALLEN CELEBRATES 93RD BIRTHDAY. Former Vernalite of 93, Feted on His Birth Anniversary at St. George.
St. George -- The ninety-third birthday anniversary of Isaac Morley Allen was celebrated with open house on March 26, from 1 to 8 p.m. when friends and neighbors are invited to call and buy a dinner for members of the family. The affair was held in his home here.
Mr. Allen was born in Salt Lake March 28, 1849, son of Joseph Stewart, pioneers of 1848. he also was a grandson of Patriarch Isaac Morley, who was the leader in settling Sanpete Valley and other parts of southern Utah.
Mr. Allen fought in the Black Hawk Wars and other Indian Wars and shared in the trials and hardships of the early pioneers. He also participated in the United Order in Orderville.
Mr. Allen has been an ernest worker in the church and has held many positions of trust in Many different communities. He recently retired from his long farming carreer to work in the St. George Temple.
He has been married three times. His first wife was Harriet Amelia Squire, whom he married March 23, 1873. His second wife was Caroline Matilda Norwood; they were married November 9, 1882 and she died December 8, 1921. His third wife and he were married November 12, 1926; her name was Isadora Losee Allen.
Of 14 children, 10 are living: Mrs. Elnora Vernon of Vernal; Mrs. Ada A. Vernon, Ornon Allen and Leon Allen of Salt Lake; Lloyd Allen and Mrs. May Chaffin of California; Mrs. Ardella Hackford and Mrs. Hazel Ross of Lapoint, Utah; Charles Allen and Harold Allen of St. George. He has 60 living grandchildren, 65 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
-Vernal Express, April 2, 1942, page 3, column 5, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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ISAAC M. ALLEN, 94, DIES IN ST GEORGE AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Issac Morley Allen, 94, a Black Hawk War veteran and former Vernal died at his home in St. George Sunday after a long illness incident to age.
Mr. Allen was born in Salt Lake March 28, 1849, a son of Joseph Stewart Allen and Lucy Morley Allen. In his early youth he went with his parents to the Sanpete Valley, being settled at that time. He served in units to stop Indian uprisings prevailing at that time and was a veteran of the Blackhawk War. He helped pioneer southern Utah and the Muddy county.
Mr. Allen also lived for several years in the United Order at Orderville, until the group was disbanded. He was an active LDS Church worker his entire life. He married three times. His first wife was Harriet Squire; his second wife, Matilda Norwood; his thired wife, Isadora Allen survives him.
He engaged in farming and cultivated large farms in Utah and Idaho. He resided in Ashley Valley for a period of ten years, leaving in 1938.
In addition to his wife he is survived by ten children, Elnora Vernon of Vernal; Orson, Leon and Ada Vernon of Salt Lake City; Floyd and May Chaffin of California; Ardell Hackford and Hazel Ross of Lapoint and Harold of St. George. He also gas sixty grandchildren, sixty-seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Services were held Wednesday at St. George and interment was in the St. George Cemetery.
-Vernal Express, March 9, 1944, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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FUNERAL RITES HONOR EARLY SON OF UTAH
ST. GEORGE--Funeral services were conducted in the St. George LDS Stake Tabernacle Wednesday for Isaac Morley Allen, 94, who died at his home in St. George Sunday at 5 p. m. of ailments incident to age. He had been bedfast for several months.
Born March 28, 1849, in Salt Lake City, a son of Joseph Stuart and Lucy Diantha Morley Allen, he spent his entire life as a frontiersman in Utah and Idaho, and served in Black Hawk Indian War in 1865. His pioneering brought him in frequent contact with the Indians both on friendly terms and otherwise. He came to St. George in 1938.
On March 28, 1873, he married Harriet Amelia Squires in Manti. She died December 4, 1881. In 1885 he married Carolina Matilda Norwood in the St. George LDS Temple. She died December 8, 1921. And on November 12, 1928, he married Isadore Losee in the St. George Temple.
She survives; also 10 sons and daughters, Mrs. Elnora Vernon and Mrs. Ada Vernon, Vernal; Orson Allen, Mojave, California; Isaac Lloyd Allen, San Francisco; Charles Allen, address unknown; Leon Allen, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Sarah Mae Chaffin, Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Ardella Hachford
-Tribune Intermountain Wire, From collection of Lila Ashby Thacker
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Isaac Morley Allen
Isaac Morley Allen was born March 28, 1849 to Lucy Diantha Morley and Joseph Stewart Allen. He was born during that hard winter of which we have heard so much, when the pioneers suffered from hunger, cold and many other privations from which many lost their lives.
Isaac's parents and grandparents crossed the plains with ox team in the Heber C. Kimball's Company in 1848. They had to walk most of the way as they had only one wagon and a yoke of oxen to bring all their possesions. His grandfather, Isaac Morley, was called by President Brigham Young to take a company of about fifty families and go settle the Sanpete Valley, which the settlers decided he should have the honor of naming. Being a great lover of the Book Of Mormon, he chose the name of Manti. Isaac Morley Allen was eight months old when he went with his parents, and shared in all the experiences of pioneering in Manti.
On March 23, 1873 Isaac Morley Allen married Harriet Amelia Squire in Manti, Utah. Through toil and strife they built a beautiful home and were blessed with four beautiful children, but lost their eldest son John in 1889.
On December 4, 1881 he had the sad experience of losing his wife, Harriet Amelia. Soon afterward, he moved to Orderville. Here he married again on November 9, 1882, a young girl by the name of Caroline Matilda Norwood. They moved around several places and then they moved to Fruita, Colorado where he did his favorite thing, farm. There he lost his little son, Ray. Ray had gone swimming with some other boys in a slue near Grand River, Colorado, he got caught in an undercurrent before anyone could help him on June 21, 1902.
One day, while they were all away from home, they lost all their possessions by fire, not even being able to save their records or valuables. They erected another nice house, but before it was entirely completed he again lost his companion on December 8, 1921. She was the mother of ten children, nine living.
He moved to Maeser and farmed. In 1926 he went to Manti to do some work on the Temple and when he returned his children received the surprise of their lives, for he had brought home with him a new wife. It was November 12, 1926 that he married Isadore Losee in the Manti Temple. Aunt Dora, as they called her, has surely been a wonderful helpmate for him ever since. She has six living children and one deceased.
Isaac Morley Allen had twelve living children, eighty-three grandchildren and fourty-nine great-grandchildren.
Isaac Morley Allen and wife, Harriet Amelia Squire Allen had four children: Ada Allen, John P. Allen, Orson Allen and Elnora Ardell Allen.
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Isaac Morley Allen
Isaac Morley Allen, a resident of St. George, Utah, died March 5, 1944 in St. George,Utah of chronic myocarditis.
He was born March 28, 2849 in Bountiful, Utah to Lucy Diantha Morley Allen and Joseph Stewart Allen. He married Harriet Amelia Squire March 23, 1873. He married Caroline Matilda Norwood November 9, 1882. He married Isadore Losee November 12, 1926. His occupation was a farmer and a cooper.
Harriet Amelia Squire Allen died in 1884. Caroline Matilda Norwood Allen died in 1921. Surviving him was his wife, Isadore Losee Allen.
Interment was made in the St. George Cemetery on March 8, 1944. Pickett Mortuary handled the arrangements.
-death certificate
His wives: Harriet Amelia Squire, Caroline Matilda Norwood and Isadore Losee.
Children with first wife Harriet Amelia Squire Allen: Elnora Ardell Allen Vernon, John P. Allen, Ada Allen Vernon and Orson Allen.
Children with second wife Caroline Matilda Norwood: Osro Allen, Isaac Lloyd Allen, Elizabeth Ardella Allen Hackford, Charles Eimeon Allen, Edward Leon Allen, Sarah May Allen Chaffin, Richard Ray Allen, Elsie Irene Allen, Harold Edwin Allen and Hazel Adeline Allen Ross.
Isaac Morley Allen was the son of Joseph Stewart Allen, who was the son of Daniel and Nancy Stewart Allen and Lucy Diantha Morley Allen, who was the daughter of Isaac and Lucy Gunn Morley.
He was born in Salt Lake City, March 28, 1849, that hard winter, which we have heard so much, when the pioneers suffered from hunger, cold and many other privations from which many lost their lives.
Mr. Allen's parents and grandparents crossed the plains with ox team in Heber C. Kimballs Company in 1848. They had to walk most of the way as they had only one wagon and one yoke of oxen to bring all their possessions.
GRANDFATHER NAMES MANTI
His grandfather, Isaac Morley was called by President Brigham Young to take a company of about fifty families and go and settle the Sanpete valley, which valley the settlers decided he should have the honor of naming. Being a great lover of the Book of Mormon, he chose the name of Manti. The settlers were all well-pleased with the name.
Grandfather Allen as we all called him went with his parents and grandparents in that company on November 22, 1849, when he was but eight months old and shared in all the privations and experiences of pioneering Manti.
They had many experiences with the Indians, some of which were not so pleasant.
At one time the Indians drove their cattle off and he went with his father to hunt them. It was in the dead of winter and very cold, so they had to walk most of the way to keep from freezing. As they were returning home he got very tired so his father had to let him ride, keeping close watch over him all the time. Soon his father saw he had become unconscious and it was all that he could do to bring him to. He rushed him home where they put him in a tub full of snow and rubbed him over very briskly with the snow until he revived. That was some experience he said and he suffered undescribable agony--that it was much worse to be brought back to life than it would have been to die.
He was burned severly at one time, when a small child and still wears the scars of those burns on his hands.
TAKES PART IN BLACK HAWK WAR
He and his family lived a short time at Pleasant Grove, also Provo, then they were called by President Young to go and settle the Muddy and also Moroni. He was in the Indian or Black Hawk War there which lasted several years and was a terrible struggle; the Indians being such a cruel and treacherous race. From there they went back to Manti. Here, in March 25, 1873 he married Harriett Amelia Squire, daughter of John P. and Adelia D. Squire.
CRIPPLED IN RUNAWAY
Through toil and sacrifice they built up a beautiful home and were blessed wtih four children, but lost their eldest son. They also had a great deal of sickness and many other trials to bear. At one time he was severly injured in a runaway, his leg being caught in the wagon wheel in such a manner that it was wound around the hub and bruised and mangled in a terrible manner. It was one of the most difficult tasks ever performed to get his leg free from that wagon wheel and remove all the pieces of bone, patch and place it in the best shape that the unexperienced doctors of that day could do. Although the doctor warned him to keep his leg straight it seemed an utter impossibility to do so, without the aid of a cast or splints of some kind, and such things had not been thought of at that time. After it had all healed the doctor had to jerk it loose again to straighten it, as it had drawn up as bent as a bow. We think that's where grandfather learned to be so wonderfully patient, lying there for more than a year suffering as we know he must have suffered without the aid of an anesthetic, or any of the modern medical conveniences.
LIVES UNITED ORDER
On December 4, 1881 he had the sad experience of loosing his wife. Soon afterward he moved to Orderville where most of his relatives then lived and enjoyed the experience of living in the United Order and working as a mechanic. Here on November 9, 1882 he married again a young girl by the name of Caroline Matilda Norwood.
When the order broke up they went back to Manti. Soon they moved to Ferron and from there to Huntington where they resided about twelve years, then he moved to Clifton in Southern Utah. In a few years, he with his two brothers and some other relatives moved to Victor, Idaho, where he bought a large farm, as he had done in the previous places where he had lived for he loved to farm, it was his hobby as well as his life's work.
MOVES TO VERNAL
In about three years just as he had his farm all cleared and under cultivation he moved to Vernal. Then hearing there was land to buy in Colorado he went to Fruita. There his little son Ray was drowned. He moved from there to Bennett where he got a farm of 160 acres which furnished plenty of work for himself and a large family of boys.
He was chosen second counselor to Alonzo Mitchell April 6, 1919.
He also labored as a home missionary and has been a faithful church worker all his life.
HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE
One day while they were all away from home they lost their home and all their possesions by fire not even being able to save their records or other valuables. They erected another nice house, but before it was entirely completed he again lost his companion on December 8, 1921. She was the mother of ten children, nine living.
Some years afterward he again moved to Vernal and bought a home in Maeser, where he has been busy tilling the soil ever since.
In 1926 he went to Manti to do some work in the temple and when he returned, we received the surprise of our life, for he brought home with him a new wife. It was on November 12, 1926 he married Aunt Isadora Losee Allen in the Manti Temple and Aunt Dora as we call her, has surely been a wonderful helpmate to him ever since. She has six living children, eighty-three grandchildren and forty-nine great-grandchildren.
He built up many homes and helped to pioneer these western valleys and helped make the desert blossom as the rose. He has lived a good, long, useful life ad had so many experiences that space will not permit the mentioning of but a very few of them here. Yes he has waded through rivers of sorrow, had trials not a few, but has swum the mighty current and come successfully through. Now at the ripe age of 86 he is still in the harness. He and his wife working hard raising two large lots full of garden, fruits and flowers each year, giving a great deal of it away to their friends and thoroughly enjoying the giving.
-Vernal Express, January 9 & 16, 1936, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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ISAAC MORLEY ALLEN CELEBRATES 93RD BIRTHDAY. Former Vernalite of 93, Feted on His Birth Anniversary at St. George.
St. George -- The ninety-third birthday anniversary of Isaac Morley Allen was celebrated with open house on March 26, from 1 to 8 p.m. when friends and neighbors are invited to call and buy a dinner for members of the family. The affair was held in his home here.
Mr. Allen was born in Salt Lake March 28, 1849, son of Joseph Stewart, pioneers of 1848. he also was a grandson of Patriarch Isaac Morley, who was the leader in settling Sanpete Valley and other parts of southern Utah.
Mr. Allen fought in the Black Hawk Wars and other Indian Wars and shared in the trials and hardships of the early pioneers. He also participated in the United Order in Orderville.
Mr. Allen has been an ernest worker in the church and has held many positions of trust in Many different communities. He recently retired from his long farming carreer to work in the St. George Temple.
He has been married three times. His first wife was Harriet Amelia Squire, whom he married March 23, 1873. His second wife was Caroline Matilda Norwood; they were married November 9, 1882 and she died December 8, 1921. His third wife and he were married November 12, 1926; her name was Isadora Losee Allen.
Of 14 children, 10 are living: Mrs. Elnora Vernon of Vernal; Mrs. Ada A. Vernon, Ornon Allen and Leon Allen of Salt Lake; Lloyd Allen and Mrs. May Chaffin of California; Mrs. Ardella Hackford and Mrs. Hazel Ross of Lapoint, Utah; Charles Allen and Harold Allen of St. George. He has 60 living grandchildren, 65 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
-Vernal Express, April 2, 1942, page 3, column 5, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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ISAAC M. ALLEN, 94, DIES IN ST GEORGE AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Issac Morley Allen, 94, a Black Hawk War veteran and former Vernal died at his home in St. George Sunday after a long illness incident to age.
Mr. Allen was born in Salt Lake March 28, 1849, a son of Joseph Stewart Allen and Lucy Morley Allen. In his early youth he went with his parents to the Sanpete Valley, being settled at that time. He served in units to stop Indian uprisings prevailing at that time and was a veteran of the Blackhawk War. He helped pioneer southern Utah and the Muddy county.
Mr. Allen also lived for several years in the United Order at Orderville, until the group was disbanded. He was an active LDS Church worker his entire life. He married three times. His first wife was Harriet Squire; his second wife, Matilda Norwood; his thired wife, Isadora Allen survives him.
He engaged in farming and cultivated large farms in Utah and Idaho. He resided in Ashley Valley for a period of ten years, leaving in 1938.
In addition to his wife he is survived by ten children, Elnora Vernon of Vernal; Orson, Leon and Ada Vernon of Salt Lake City; Floyd and May Chaffin of California; Ardell Hackford and Hazel Ross of Lapoint and Harold of St. George. He also gas sixty grandchildren, sixty-seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Services were held Wednesday at St. George and interment was in the St. George Cemetery.
-Vernal Express, March 9, 1944, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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FUNERAL RITES HONOR EARLY SON OF UTAH
ST. GEORGE--Funeral services were conducted in the St. George LDS Stake Tabernacle Wednesday for Isaac Morley Allen, 94, who died at his home in St. George Sunday at 5 p. m. of ailments incident to age. He had been bedfast for several months.
Born March 28, 1849, in Salt Lake City, a son of Joseph Stuart and Lucy Diantha Morley Allen, he spent his entire life as a frontiersman in Utah and Idaho, and served in Black Hawk Indian War in 1865. His pioneering brought him in frequent contact with the Indians both on friendly terms and otherwise. He came to St. George in 1938.
On March 28, 1873, he married Harriet Amelia Squires in Manti. She died December 4, 1881. In 1885 he married Carolina Matilda Norwood in the St. George LDS Temple. She died December 8, 1921. And on November 12, 1928, he married Isadore Losee in the St. George Temple.
She survives; also 10 sons and daughters, Mrs. Elnora Vernon and Mrs. Ada Vernon, Vernal; Orson Allen, Mojave, California; Isaac Lloyd Allen, San Francisco; Charles Allen, address unknown; Leon Allen, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Sarah Mae Chaffin, Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Ardella Hachford
-Tribune Intermountain Wire, From collection of Lila Ashby Thacker
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Isaac Morley Allen
Isaac Morley Allen was born March 28, 1849 to Lucy Diantha Morley and Joseph Stewart Allen. He was born during that hard winter of which we have heard so much, when the pioneers suffered from hunger, cold and many other privations from which many lost their lives.
Isaac's parents and grandparents crossed the plains with ox team in the Heber C. Kimball's Company in 1848. They had to walk most of the way as they had only one wagon and a yoke of oxen to bring all their possesions. His grandfather, Isaac Morley, was called by President Brigham Young to take a company of about fifty families and go settle the Sanpete Valley, which the settlers decided he should have the honor of naming. Being a great lover of the Book Of Mormon, he chose the name of Manti. Isaac Morley Allen was eight months old when he went with his parents, and shared in all the experiences of pioneering in Manti.
On March 23, 1873 Isaac Morley Allen married Harriet Amelia Squire in Manti, Utah. Through toil and strife they built a beautiful home and were blessed with four beautiful children, but lost their eldest son John in 1889.
On December 4, 1881 he had the sad experience of losing his wife, Harriet Amelia. Soon afterward, he moved to Orderville. Here he married again on November 9, 1882, a young girl by the name of Caroline Matilda Norwood. They moved around several places and then they moved to Fruita, Colorado where he did his favorite thing, farm. There he lost his little son, Ray. Ray had gone swimming with some other boys in a slue near Grand River, Colorado, he got caught in an undercurrent before anyone could help him on June 21, 1902.
One day, while they were all away from home, they lost all their possessions by fire, not even being able to save their records or valuables. They erected another nice house, but before it was entirely completed he again lost his companion on December 8, 1921. She was the mother of ten children, nine living.
He moved to Maeser and farmed. In 1926 he went to Manti to do some work on the Temple and when he returned his children received the surprise of their lives, for he had brought home with him a new wife. It was November 12, 1926 that he married Isadore Losee in the Manti Temple. Aunt Dora, as they called her, has surely been a wonderful helpmate for him ever since. She has six living children and one deceased.
Isaac Morley Allen had twelve living children, eighty-three grandchildren and fourty-nine great-grandchildren.
Isaac Morley Allen and wife, Harriet Amelia Squire Allen had four children: Ada Allen, John P. Allen, Orson Allen and Elnora Ardell Allen.
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Isaac Morley Allen
Isaac Morley Allen, a resident of St. George, Utah, died March 5, 1944 in St. George,Utah of chronic myocarditis.
He was born March 28, 2849 in Bountiful, Utah to Lucy Diantha Morley Allen and Joseph Stewart Allen. He married Harriet Amelia Squire March 23, 1873. He married Caroline Matilda Norwood November 9, 1882. He married Isadore Losee November 12, 1926. His occupation was a farmer and a cooper.
Harriet Amelia Squire Allen died in 1884. Caroline Matilda Norwood Allen died in 1921. Surviving him was his wife, Isadore Losee Allen.
Interment was made in the St. George Cemetery on March 8, 1944. Pickett Mortuary handled the arrangements.
-death certificate
His wives: Harriet Amelia Squire, Caroline Matilda Norwood and Isadore Losee.
Children with first wife Harriet Amelia Squire Allen: Elnora Ardell Allen Vernon, John P. Allen, Ada Allen Vernon and Orson Allen.
Children with second wife Caroline Matilda Norwood: Osro Allen, Isaac Lloyd Allen, Elizabeth Ardella Allen Hackford, Charles Eimeon Allen, Edward Leon Allen, Sarah May Allen Chaffin, Richard Ray Allen, Elsie Irene Allen, Harold Edwin Allen and Hazel Adeline Allen Ross.
OUR PIONEERS, ISAAC MORLEY ALLEN BY ADA ALLEN VERNON
Isaac Morley Allen was the son of Joseph Stewart Allen, who was the son of Daniel and Nancy Stewart Allen and Lucy Diantha Morley Allen, who was the daughter of Isaac and Lucy Gunn Morley.
He was born in Salt Lake City, March 28, 1849, that hard winter, which we have heard so much, when the pioneers suffered from hunger, cold and many other privations from which many lost their lives.
Mr. Allen's parents and grandparents crossed the plains with ox team in Heber C. Kimballs Company in 1848. They had to walk most of the way as they had only one wagon and one yoke of oxen to bring all their possessions.
GRANDFATHER NAMES MANTI
His grandfather, Isaac Morley was called by President Brigham Young to take a company of about fifty families and go and settle the Sanpete valley, which valley the settlers decided he should have the honor of naming. Being a great lover of the Book of Mormon, he chose the name of Manti. The settlers were all well-pleased with the name.
Grandfather Allen as we all called him went with his parents and grandparents in that company on November 22, 1849, when he was but eight months old and shared in all the privations and experiences of pioneering Manti.
They had many experiences with the Indians, some of which were not so pleasant.
At one time the Indians drove their cattle off and he went with his father to hunt them. It was in the dead of winter and very cold, so they had to walk most of the way to keep from freezing. As they were returning home he got very tired so his father had to let him ride, keeping close watch over him all the time. Soon his father saw he had become unconscious and it was all that he could do to bring him to. He rushed him home where they put him in a tub full of snow and rubbed him over very briskly with the snow until he revived. That was some experience he said and he suffered undescribable agony--that it was much worse to be brought back to life than it would have been to die.
He was burned severly at one time, when a small child and still wears the scars of those burns on his hands.
TAKES PART IN BLACK HAWK WAR
He and his family lived a short time at Pleasant Grove, also Provo, then they were called by President Young to go and settle the Muddy and also Moroni. He was in the Indian or Black Hawk War there which lasted several years and was a terrible struggle; the Indians being such a cruel and treacherous race. From there they went back to Manti. Here, in March 25, 1873 he married Harriett Amelia Squire, daughter of John P. and Adelia D. Squire.
CRIPPLED IN RUNAWAY
Through toil and sacrifice they built up a beautiful home and were blessed wtih four children, but lost their eldest son. They also had a great deal of sickness and many other trials to bear. At one time he was severly injured in a runaway, his leg being caught in the wagon wheel in such a manner that it was wound around the hub and bruised and mangled in a terrible manner. It was one of the most difficult tasks ever performed to get his leg free from that wagon wheel and remove all the pieces of bone, patch and place it in the best shape that the unexperienced doctors of that day could do. Although the doctor warned him to keep his leg straight it seemed an utter impossibility to do so, without the aid of a cast or splints of some kind, and such things had not been thought of at that time. After it had all healed the doctor had to jerk it loose again to straighten it, as it had drawn up as bent as a bow. We think that's where grandfather learned to be so wonderfully patient, lying there for more than a year suffering as we know he must have suffered without the aid of an anesthetic, or any of the modern medical conveniences.
LIVES UNITED ORDER
On December 4, 1881 he had the sad experience of loosing his wife. Soon afterward he moved to Orderville where most of his relatives then lived and enjoyed the experience of living in the United Order and working as a mechanic. Here on November 9, 1882 he married again a young girl by the name of Caroline Matilda Norwood.
When the order broke up they went back to Manti. Soon they moved to Ferron and from there to Huntington where they resided about twelve years, then he moved to Clifton in Southern Utah. In a few years, he with his two brothers and some other relatives moved to Victor, Idaho, where he bought a large farm, as he had done in the previous places where he had lived for he loved to farm, it was his hobby as well as his life's work.
MOVES TO VERNAL
In about three years just as he had his farm all cleared and under cultivation he moved to Vernal. Then hearing there was land to buy in Colorado he went to Fruita. There his little son Ray was drowned. He moved from there to Bennett where he got a farm of 160 acres which furnished plenty of work for himself and a large family of boys.
He was chosen second counselor to Alonzo Mitchell April 6, 1919.
He also labored as a home missionary and has been a faithful church worker all his life.
HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE
One day while they were all away from home they lost their home and all their possesions by fire not even being able to save their records or other valuables. They erected another nice house, but before it was entirely completed he again lost his companion on December 8, 1921. She was the mother of ten children, nine living.
Some years afterward he again moved to Vernal and bought a home in Maeser, where he has been busy tilling the soil ever since.
In 1926 he went to Manti to do some work in the temple and when he returned, we received the surprise of our life, for he brought home with him a new wife. It was on November 12, 1926 he married Aunt Isadora Losee Allen in the Manti Temple and Aunt Dora as we call her, has surely been a wonderful helpmate to him ever since. She has six living children, eighty-three grandchildren and forty-nine great-grandchildren.
He built up many homes and helped to pioneer these western valleys and helped make the desert blossom as the rose. He has lived a good, long, useful life ad had so many experiences that space will not permit the mentioning of but a very few of them here. Yes he has waded through rivers of sorrow, had trials not a few, but has swum the mighty current and come successfully through. Now at the ripe age of 86 he is still in the harness. He and his wife working hard raising two large lots full of garden, fruits and flowers each year, giving a great deal of it away to their friends and thoroughly enjoying the giving.
-Vernal Express, January 9 & 16, 1936, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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ISAAC MORLEY ALLEN CELEBRATES 93RD BIRTHDAY. Former Vernalite of 93, Feted on His Birth Anniversary at St. George.
St. George -- The ninety-third birthday anniversary of Isaac Morley Allen was celebrated with open house on March 26, from 1 to 8 p.m. when friends and neighbors are invited to call and buy a dinner for members of the family. The affair was held in his home here.
Mr. Allen was born in Salt Lake March 28, 1849, son of Joseph Stewart, pioneers of 1848. he also was a grandson of Patriarch Isaac Morley, who was the leader in settling Sanpete Valley and other parts of southern Utah.
Mr. Allen fought in the Black Hawk Wars and other Indian Wars and shared in the trials and hardships of the early pioneers. He also participated in the United Order in Orderville.
Mr. Allen has been an ernest worker in the church and has held many positions of trust in Many different communities. He recently retired from his long farming carreer to work in the St. George Temple.
He has been married three times. His first wife was Harriet Amelia Squire, whom he married March 23, 1873. His second wife was Caroline Matilda Norwood; they were married November 9, 1882 and she died December 8, 1921. His third wife and he were married November 12, 1926; her name was Isadora Losee Allen.
Of 14 children, 10 are living: Mrs. Elnora Vernon of Vernal; Mrs. Ada A. Vernon, Ornon Allen and Leon Allen of Salt Lake; Lloyd Allen and Mrs. May Chaffin of California; Mrs. Ardella Hackford and Mrs. Hazel Ross of Lapoint, Utah; Charles Allen and Harold Allen of St. George. He has 60 living grandchildren, 65 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
-Vernal Express, April 2, 1942, page 3, column 5, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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ISAAC M. ALLEN, 94, DIES IN ST GEORGE AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Issac Morley Allen, 94, a Black Hawk War veteran and former Vernal died at his home in St. George Sunday after a long illness incident to age.
Mr. Allen was born in Salt Lake March 28, 1849, a son of Joseph Stewart Allen and Lucy Morley Allen. In his early youth he went with his parents to the Sanpete Valley, being settled at that time. He served in units to stop Indian uprisings prevailing at that time and was a veteran of the Blackhawk War. He helped pioneer southern Utah and the Muddy county.
Mr. Allen also lived for several years in the United Order at Orderville, until the group was disbanded. He was an active LDS Church worker his entire life. He married three times. His first wife was Harriet Squire; his second wife, Matilda Norwood; his thired wife, Isadora Allen survives him.
He engaged in farming and cultivated large farms in Utah and Idaho. He resided in Ashley Valley for a period of ten years, leaving in 1938.
In addition to his wife he is survived by ten children, Elnora Vernon of Vernal; Orson, Leon and Ada Vernon of Salt Lake City; Floyd and May Chaffin of California; Ardell Hackford and Hazel Ross of Lapoint and Harold of St. George. He also gas sixty grandchildren, sixty-seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Services were held Wednesday at St. George and interment was in the St. George Cemetery.
-Vernal Express, March 9, 1944, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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FUNERAL RITES HONOR EARLY SON OF UTAH
ST. GEORGE--Funeral services were conducted in the St. George LDS Stake Tabernacle Wednesday for Isaac Morley Allen, 94, who died at his home in St. George Sunday at 5 p. m. of ailments incident to age. He had been bedfast for several months.
Born March 28, 1849, in Salt Lake City, a son of Joseph Stuart and Lucy Diantha Morley Allen, he spent his entire life as a frontiersman in Utah and Idaho, and served in Black Hawk Indian War in 1865. His pioneering brought him in frequent contact with the Indians both on friendly terms and otherwise. He came to St. George in 1938.
On March 28, 1873, he married Harriet Amelia Squires in Manti. She died December 4, 1881. In 1885 he married Carolina Matilda Norwood in the St. George LDS Temple. She died December 8, 1921. And on November 12, 1928, he married Isadore Losee in the St. George Temple.
She survives; also 10 sons and daughters, Mrs. Elnora Vernon and Mrs. Ada Vernon, Vernal; Orson Allen, Mojave, California; Isaac Lloyd Allen, San Francisco; Charles Allen, address unknown; Leon Allen, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Sarah Mae Chaffin, Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Ardella Hachford
-Tribune Intermountain Wire, From collection of Lila Ashby Thacker
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Isaac Morley Allen
Isaac Morley Allen was born March 28, 1849 to Lucy Diantha Morley and Joseph Stewart Allen. He was born during that hard winter of which we have heard so much, when the pioneers suffered from hunger, cold and many other privations from which many lost their lives.
Isaac's parents and grandparents crossed the plains with ox team in the Heber C. Kimball's Company in 1848. They had to walk most of the way as they had only one wagon and a yoke of oxen to bring all their possesions. His grandfather, Isaac Morley, was called by President Brigham Young to take a company of about fifty families and go settle the Sanpete Valley, which the settlers decided he should have the honor of naming. Being a great lover of the Book Of Mormon, he chose the name of Manti. Isaac Morley Allen was eight months old when he went with his parents, and shared in all the experiences of pioneering in Manti.
On March 23, 1873 Isaac Morley Allen married Harriet Amelia Squire in Manti, Utah. Through toil and strife they built a beautiful home and were blessed with four beautiful children, but lost their eldest son John in 1889.
On December 4, 1881 he had the sad experience of losing his wife, Harriet Amelia. Soon afterward, he moved to Orderville. Here he married again on November 9, 1882, a young girl by the name of Caroline Matilda Norwood. They moved around several places and then they moved to Fruita, Colorado where he did his favorite thing, farm. There he lost his little son, Ray. Ray had gone swimming with some other boys in a slue near Grand River, Colorado, he got caught in an undercurrent before anyone could help him on June 21, 1902.
One day, while they were all away from home, they lost all their possessions by fire, not even being able to save their records or valuables. They erected another nice house, but before it was entirely completed he again lost his companion on December 8, 1921. She was the mother of ten children, nine living.
He moved to Maeser and farmed. In 1926 he went to Manti to do some work on the Temple and when he returned his children received the surprise of their lives, for he had brought home with him a new wife. It was November 12, 1926 that he married Isadore Losee in the Manti Temple. Aunt Dora, as they called her, has surely been a wonderful helpmate for him ever since. She has six living children and one deceased.
Isaac Morley Allen had twelve living children, eighty-three grandchildren and fourty-nine great-grandchildren.
Isaac Morley Allen and wife, Harriet Amelia Squire Allen had four children: Ada Allen, John P. Allen, Orson Allen and Elnora Ardell Allen.
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Isaac Morley Allen
Isaac Morley Allen, a resident of St. George, Utah, died March 5, 1944 in St. George,Utah of chronic myocarditis.
He was born March 28, 2849 in Bountiful, Utah to Lucy Diantha Morley Allen and Joseph Stewart Allen. He married Harriet Amelia Squire March 23, 1873. He married Caroline Matilda Norwood November 9, 1882. He married Isadore Losee November 12, 1926. His occupation was a farmer and a cooper.
Harriet Amelia Squire Allen died in 1884. Caroline Matilda Norwood Allen died in 1921. Surviving him was his wife, Isadore Losee Allen.
Interment was made in the St. George Cemetery on March 8, 1944. Pickett Mortuary handled the arrangements.
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His wives: Harriet Amelia Squire, Caroline Matilda Norwood and Isadore Losee.
Children with first wife Harriet Amelia Squire Allen: Elnora Ardell Allen Vernon, John P. Allen, Ada Allen Vernon and Orson Allen.
Children with second wife Caroline Matilda Norwood: Osro Allen, Isaac Lloyd Allen, Elizabeth Ardella Allen Hackford, Charles Eimeon Allen, Edward Leon Allen, Sarah May Allen Chaffin, Richard Ray Allen, Elsie Irene Allen, Harold Edwin Allen and Hazel Adeline Allen Ross.
Isaac Morley Allen was the son of Joseph Stewart Allen, who was the son of Daniel and Nancy Stewart Allen and Lucy Diantha Morley Allen, who was the daughter of Isaac and Lucy Gunn Morley.
He was born in Salt Lake City, March 28, 1849, that hard winter, which we have heard so much, when the pioneers suffered from hunger, cold and many other privations from which many lost their lives.
Mr. Allen's parents and grandparents crossed the plains with ox team in Heber C. Kimballs Company in 1848. They had to walk most of the way as they had only one wagon and one yoke of oxen to bring all their possessions.
GRANDFATHER NAMES MANTI
His grandfather, Isaac Morley was called by President Brigham Young to take a company of about fifty families and go and settle the Sanpete valley, which valley the settlers decided he should have the honor of naming. Being a great lover of the Book of Mormon, he chose the name of Manti. The settlers were all well-pleased with the name.
Grandfather Allen as we all called him went with his parents and grandparents in that company on November 22, 1849, when he was but eight months old and shared in all the privations and experiences of pioneering Manti.
They had many experiences with the Indians, some of which were not so pleasant.
At one time the Indians drove their cattle off and he went with his father to hunt them. It was in the dead of winter and very cold, so they had to walk most of the way to keep from freezing. As they were returning home he got very tired so his father had to let him ride, keeping close watch over him all the time. Soon his father saw he had become unconscious and it was all that he could do to bring him to. He rushed him home where they put him in a tub full of snow and rubbed him over very briskly with the snow until he revived. That was some experience he said and he suffered undescribable agony--that it was much worse to be brought back to life than it would have been to die.
He was burned severly at one time, when a small child and still wears the scars of those burns on his hands.
TAKES PART IN BLACK HAWK WAR
He and his family lived a short time at Pleasant Grove, also Provo, then they were called by President Young to go and settle the Muddy and also Moroni. He was in the Indian or Black Hawk War there which lasted several years and was a terrible struggle; the Indians being such a cruel and treacherous race. From there they went back to Manti. Here, in March 25, 1873 he married Harriett Amelia Squire, daughter of John P. and Adelia D. Squire.
CRIPPLED IN RUNAWAY
Through toil and sacrifice they built up a beautiful home and were blessed wtih four children, but lost their eldest son. They also had a great deal of sickness and many other trials to bear. At one time he was severly injured in a runaway, his leg being caught in the wagon wheel in such a manner that it was wound around the hub and bruised and mangled in a terrible manner. It was one of the most difficult tasks ever performed to get his leg free from that wagon wheel and remove all the pieces of bone, patch and place it in the best shape that the unexperienced doctors of that day could do. Although the doctor warned him to keep his leg straight it seemed an utter impossibility to do so, without the aid of a cast or splints of some kind, and such things had not been thought of at that time. After it had all healed the doctor had to jerk it loose again to straighten it, as it had drawn up as bent as a bow. We think that's where grandfather learned to be so wonderfully patient, lying there for more than a year suffering as we know he must have suffered without the aid of an anesthetic, or any of the modern medical conveniences.
LIVES UNITED ORDER
On December 4, 1881 he had the sad experience of loosing his wife. Soon afterward he moved to Orderville where most of his relatives then lived and enjoyed the experience of living in the United Order and working as a mechanic. Here on November 9, 1882 he married again a young girl by the name of Caroline Matilda Norwood.
When the order broke up they went back to Manti. Soon they moved to Ferron and from there to Huntington where they resided about twelve years, then he moved to Clifton in Southern Utah. In a few years, he with his two brothers and some other relatives moved to Victor, Idaho, where he bought a large farm, as he had done in the previous places where he had lived for he loved to farm, it was his hobby as well as his life's work.
MOVES TO VERNAL
In about three years just as he had his farm all cleared and under cultivation he moved to Vernal. Then hearing there was land to buy in Colorado he went to Fruita. There his little son Ray was drowned. He moved from there to Bennett where he got a farm of 160 acres which furnished plenty of work for himself and a large family of boys.
He was chosen second counselor to Alonzo Mitchell April 6, 1919.
He also labored as a home missionary and has been a faithful church worker all his life.
HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE
One day while they were all away from home they lost their home and all their possesions by fire not even being able to save their records or other valuables. They erected another nice house, but before it was entirely completed he again lost his companion on December 8, 1921. She was the mother of ten children, nine living.
Some years afterward he again moved to Vernal and bought a home in Maeser, where he has been busy tilling the soil ever since.
In 1926 he went to Manti to do some work in the temple and when he returned, we received the surprise of our life, for he brought home with him a new wife. It was on November 12, 1926 he married Aunt Isadora Losee Allen in the Manti Temple and Aunt Dora as we call her, has surely been a wonderful helpmate to him ever since. She has six living children, eighty-three grandchildren and forty-nine great-grandchildren.
He built up many homes and helped to pioneer these western valleys and helped make the desert blossom as the rose. He has lived a good, long, useful life ad had so many experiences that space will not permit the mentioning of but a very few of them here. Yes he has waded through rivers of sorrow, had trials not a few, but has swum the mighty current and come successfully through. Now at the ripe age of 86 he is still in the harness. He and his wife working hard raising two large lots full of garden, fruits and flowers each year, giving a great deal of it away to their friends and thoroughly enjoying the giving.
-Vernal Express, January 9 & 16, 1936, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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ISAAC MORLEY ALLEN CELEBRATES 93RD BIRTHDAY. Former Vernalite of 93, Feted on His Birth Anniversary at St. George.
St. George -- The ninety-third birthday anniversary of Isaac Morley Allen was celebrated with open house on March 26, from 1 to 8 p.m. when friends and neighbors are invited to call and buy a dinner for members of the family. The affair was held in his home here.
Mr. Allen was born in Salt Lake March 28, 1849, son of Joseph Stewart, pioneers of 1848. he also was a grandson of Patriarch Isaac Morley, who was the leader in settling Sanpete Valley and other parts of southern Utah.
Mr. Allen fought in the Black Hawk Wars and other Indian Wars and shared in the trials and hardships of the early pioneers. He also participated in the United Order in Orderville.
Mr. Allen has been an ernest worker in the church and has held many positions of trust in Many different communities. He recently retired from his long farming carreer to work in the St. George Temple.
He has been married three times. His first wife was Harriet Amelia Squire, whom he married March 23, 1873. His second wife was Caroline Matilda Norwood; they were married November 9, 1882 and she died December 8, 1921. His third wife and he were married November 12, 1926; her name was Isadora Losee Allen.
Of 14 children, 10 are living: Mrs. Elnora Vernon of Vernal; Mrs. Ada A. Vernon, Ornon Allen and Leon Allen of Salt Lake; Lloyd Allen and Mrs. May Chaffin of California; Mrs. Ardella Hackford and Mrs. Hazel Ross of Lapoint, Utah; Charles Allen and Harold Allen of St. George. He has 60 living grandchildren, 65 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
-Vernal Express, April 2, 1942, page 3, column 5, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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ISAAC M. ALLEN, 94, DIES IN ST GEORGE AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Issac Morley Allen, 94, a Black Hawk War veteran and former Vernal died at his home in St. George Sunday after a long illness incident to age.
Mr. Allen was born in Salt Lake March 28, 1849, a son of Joseph Stewart Allen and Lucy Morley Allen. In his early youth he went with his parents to the Sanpete Valley, being settled at that time. He served in units to stop Indian uprisings prevailing at that time and was a veteran of the Blackhawk War. He helped pioneer southern Utah and the Muddy county.
Mr. Allen also lived for several years in the United Order at Orderville, until the group was disbanded. He was an active LDS Church worker his entire life. He married three times. His first wife was Harriet Squire; his second wife, Matilda Norwood; his thired wife, Isadora Allen survives him.
He engaged in farming and cultivated large farms in Utah and Idaho. He resided in Ashley Valley for a period of ten years, leaving in 1938.
In addition to his wife he is survived by ten children, Elnora Vernon of Vernal; Orson, Leon and Ada Vernon of Salt Lake City; Floyd and May Chaffin of California; Ardell Hackford and Hazel Ross of Lapoint and Harold of St. George. He also gas sixty grandchildren, sixty-seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Services were held Wednesday at St. George and interment was in the St. George Cemetery.
-Vernal Express, March 9, 1944, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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FUNERAL RITES HONOR EARLY SON OF UTAH
ST. GEORGE--Funeral services were conducted in the St. George LDS Stake Tabernacle Wednesday for Isaac Morley Allen, 94, who died at his home in St. George Sunday at 5 p. m. of ailments incident to age. He had been bedfast for several months.
Born March 28, 1849, in Salt Lake City, a son of Joseph Stuart and Lucy Diantha Morley Allen, he spent his entire life as a frontiersman in Utah and Idaho, and served in Black Hawk Indian War in 1865. His pioneering brought him in frequent contact with the Indians both on friendly terms and otherwise. He came to St. George in 1938.
On March 28, 1873, he married Harriet Amelia Squires in Manti. She died December 4, 1881. In 1885 he married Carolina Matilda Norwood in the St. George LDS Temple. She died December 8, 1921. And on November 12, 1928, he married Isadore Losee in the St. George Temple.
She survives; also 10 sons and daughters, Mrs. Elnora Vernon and Mrs. Ada Vernon, Vernal; Orson Allen, Mojave, California; Isaac Lloyd Allen, San Francisco; Charles Allen, address unknown; Leon Allen, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Sarah Mae Chaffin, Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Ardella Hachford
-Tribune Intermountain Wire, From collection of Lila Ashby Thacker
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Isaac Morley Allen
Isaac Morley Allen was born March 28, 1849 to Lucy Diantha Morley and Joseph Stewart Allen. He was born during that hard winter of which we have heard so much, when the pioneers suffered from hunger, cold and many other privations from which many lost their lives.
Isaac's parents and grandparents crossed the plains with ox team in the Heber C. Kimball's Company in 1848. They had to walk most of the way as they had only one wagon and a yoke of oxen to bring all their possesions. His grandfather, Isaac Morley, was called by President Brigham Young to take a company of about fifty families and go settle the Sanpete Valley, which the settlers decided he should have the honor of naming. Being a great lover of the Book Of Mormon, he chose the name of Manti. Isaac Morley Allen was eight months old when he went with his parents, and shared in all the experiences of pioneering in Manti.
On March 23, 1873 Isaac Morley Allen married Harriet Amelia Squire in Manti, Utah. Through toil and strife they built a beautiful home and were blessed with four beautiful children, but lost their eldest son John in 1889.
On December 4, 1881 he had the sad experience of losing his wife, Harriet Amelia. Soon afterward, he moved to Orderville. Here he married again on November 9, 1882, a young girl by the name of Caroline Matilda Norwood. They moved around several places and then they moved to Fruita, Colorado where he did his favorite thing, farm. There he lost his little son, Ray. Ray had gone swimming with some other boys in a slue near Grand River, Colorado, he got caught in an undercurrent before anyone could help him on June 21, 1902.
One day, while they were all away from home, they lost all their possessions by fire, not even being able to save their records or valuables. They erected another nice house, but before it was entirely completed he again lost his companion on December 8, 1921. She was the mother of ten children, nine living.
He moved to Maeser and farmed. In 1926 he went to Manti to do some work on the Temple and when he returned his children received the surprise of their lives, for he had brought home with him a new wife. It was November 12, 1926 that he married Isadore Losee in the Manti Temple. Aunt Dora, as they called her, has surely been a wonderful helpmate for him ever since. She has six living children and one deceased.
Isaac Morley Allen had twelve living children, eighty-three grandchildren and fourty-nine great-grandchildren.
Isaac Morley Allen and wife, Harriet Amelia Squire Allen had four children: Ada Allen, John P. Allen, Orson Allen and Elnora Ardell Allen.
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Isaac Morley Allen
Isaac Morley Allen, a resident of St. George, Utah, died March 5, 1944 in St. George,Utah of chronic myocarditis.
He was born March 28, 2849 in Bountiful, Utah to Lucy Diantha Morley Allen and Joseph Stewart Allen. He married Harriet Amelia Squire March 23, 1873. He married Caroline Matilda Norwood November 9, 1882. He married Isadore Losee November 12, 1926. His occupation was a farmer and a cooper.
Harriet Amelia Squire Allen died in 1884. Caroline Matilda Norwood Allen died in 1921. Surviving him was his wife, Isadore Losee Allen.
Interment was made in the St. George Cemetery on March 8, 1944. Pickett Mortuary handled the arrangements.
-death certificate
His wives: Harriet Amelia Squire, Caroline Matilda Norwood and Isadore Losee.
Children with first wife Harriet Amelia Squire Allen: Elnora Ardell Allen Vernon, John P. Allen, Ada Allen Vernon and Orson Allen.
Children with second wife Caroline Matilda Norwood: Osro Allen, Isaac Lloyd Allen, Elizabeth Ardella Allen Hackford, Charles Eimeon Allen, Edward Leon Allen, Sarah May Allen Chaffin, Richard Ray Allen, Elsie Irene Allen, Harold Edwin Allen and Hazel Adeline Allen Ross.
Family Members
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Mary Elizabeth Allen Cox
1836–1916
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Caroline Delight Allen Jones
1838–1879
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Lucy Gunn Allen Cox
1840–1928
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Cordelia Allen
1843–1846
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Calista Allen
1845–1846
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Joseph Lorenzo Allen
1847–1847
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Hyrum Allen
1853–1854
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Charles Albert Allen
1853–1924
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Harriet Lenora Allen Esplin
1857–1930
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Simeon Morley Allen
1859–1916
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Clara Amelia Allen
1862–1863
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Elnora Ardell Allen Vernon
1873–1963
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John P Allen
1876–1879
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Ada Allen Vernon
1878–1948
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Orson Allen
1881–1959
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Isaac Lloyd Allen
1883–1956
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Charles Simeon Allen
1886–1946
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Leon Edward Allen
1888–1971
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Sarah May Allen Chaffin
1889–1950
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Osro Allen
1892–1940
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Elizabeth Ardella Allen Hackford
1894–1980
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Elsie Irene Allen
1897–1938
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Andrew Herold Allen
1900–1977
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Harold Edwin Allen
1904–1979
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Hazel Adeline Allen Ross
1905–1975
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