Rial Allen was born on February 27, 1844, at Paris, Henry County, Tennessee.

Rial came west with his family and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1862. He was 18 years old. He married Susan Elizabeth Collins at the SLC Endowment House, 25 April 1868. They were called by Brigham Young, the LDS President, to move to western Utah, at that time beyond St. George. He and his wife moved with his parents to West Point (called The Muddy Settlement), Utah, which is now Moapa, Clark, Nevada.

His mother Elizabeth Alexander Allen in 23 May 1869 died there, never recovering from the birth of her last child. The settlement was later abandoned due to Indian problems and confusion of taxes from Arizona, Utah and Nevada who at one time or another claimed it. (Nevada won.) They left on the recommendation of President Brigham Young and because the Nevada sheriffs were coming to collect taxes (They had already paid in the other states.) They could not afford it and were uncomfortable being citizens of ‘wild' Nevada. Large crops of wheat, cotton, and budding vineyards were left for others to harvest.

In 1871, when their first son Rial was two, his father, widowed Lewis Allen, bought a ranch in Long Valley near Pipe Springs, Arizona. It was called Moccasin Ranch. Rial, as the oldest son, and family continued with him and helped him raise his unmarried siblings as their family increased. Rial's wife, Susan Collins Allen apparently traveled to Washington, Washington, Utah to have their next four children, Susan, Ann, Minnie, and Jim, and then would return.

Moccasin Ranch was a very successful farm and orchard. It was excellent for producing cane, peaches, grapes, and manufacturing molasses. In 1874, Lewis gave the ranch to help form the Orderville United Order, a communal organization of several farms where people pooled all their resources and shared in kind. The only sweetener they had was from the cane to molasses operation there. Lewis because the shoe repair and cobbler for this Order of Enoch. He became called Lewis ‘Moccasin' Lewis.

Rial and his family stayed until called to settle the Tonto Basin in Arizona. They moved and help found the city of Pine, Arizona. Their house was the first one built and used as a fort against Indians roaming in the area for a time. Rial Allen was called as the first Bishop and his wife Susan as the first Relief Society President. It has excellent farming, ranching and timber. They lived there until 1891, having five more children born there, Addie, Maggie, Phoebe, Lottie, and Lafe.

Rial was a true Renaissance Man, a man of self-sufficiency and talents. Besides farming and ranching, he was a blacksmith; he played violin, most often at Church Socials, made his own furniture, and was the town dentist (pulled teeth). When they left in 1891, called again to colonize this time Tuba City, Arizona, there were 25 family and 172 members in Pine, Arizona. Many were called but only a few were willing to move on to this new desolate outpost. Some others who went were close friends and relatives by marriage the Brinkerhoff, Nelson, and Heward families. They lived first in Moencopi near the old LDS Church site. Rial Allen's family then moved to Moenave, 6 miles west of Tuba City, Arizona. Jacob Hamblin had had a home in that area.

Rial ranched and farmed was known for his peaches, beans and excellent stock of animals including horses, mules and cows. His two youngest sons Lafe and Frank played with the Indian children and learned their language at a young age while his daughters watched them. His wife Susan died there, never really recovering from their last child Frank, who was born in Moenave. She was buried at the old LDS Tuba City Church Cemetery. Rial Allen would remarry Nettie Heward and have one more child named Sessal. He would die a few years later and be buried next to his first wife.

Thank you J. B. Lindner for this information
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spouses:
1) Susan Elizabeth Collins
marriage: 25 April 1868

2)Susannah Janet Heward
marriage: 18 November 1896

Death: May 27, 1899 Moenave, Coconino, Arizona.

CHILDREN with 1st wife:
• Rial Albert Allen 1869 – 1873
• Susan Temperance "Tempy" Allen 1871 – 1941
• Ann Elizabeth Allen Tanner 1873 – 1957
• Sara Malinda "Minnie" Allen Nay 1875 – 1944
• James Lewis "Jim" Allen 1878 – 1933
• Nancy Adeline "Addie" Allen Brinkerhoff 1880 – 1962
• Margaret Jane "Maggie" Allen Holbrook 1882 – 1953
• Phoebe Allen Brinkerhoff 1885 – 1944
• Charlotte Beulah "Lottie" Allen Higbee 1887 – 1980
• Lafayette Collins "Lafe" Allen 1889 – 1932
• Franklin "Frank" Allen 1892 – 1969

CHILD with 2nd wife:
• Sessal Dellma Allen

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From 1877-1880, A. J. Randall and other men including Rial Allen, Wid and Dave Fuller, explored the Tonto Basin area in Arizona.