Wilson Monroe Allred was the third child and first son born to William Hackley Allred and Elizabeth Ivie Allred. He was born to them December 1, 1828, in Bedford County, Tennessee. The log house where he was born was on land in Bedford County in Middle Tennessee about 50 miles south of Nashville. Today that area is in Marshall County.
When he was approximately two, his parents moved with other Allred and Ivie families to Ralls County, Missouri, near the Salt River about 25 miles west of the Mississippi River. Ralls County was soon divided and they became residents of Monroe County. The Allred and Ivie families farmed their land. He grew up in this area with his brothers, sisters and many cousins. When Wilson Monroe was 19, he married Mary [Jane] Jennings of Shelby County, Salt River Township, Missouri, on August 29, 1847. Shelby County is just north of Monroe County. The Justice of the Peace listed them as Monroe M. Allred and she was listed as Miss Mary Jennings. They are listed on the 1850 Federal Census in District 1, Adair, Missouri, as Monrou Allred, farmer, and Jane Allred. They were both 21 when that census was taken. Adair County is north and west of Monroe County. The couple had seven children. The first six were born in Adair County, Missouri: Julia; William Henderson; Sophine Clementine; a daughter who born and died the same day; Martha Mildred, and Belle Allred. Born in Grayson County, Texas, was Ellie or Mary Ella Allred. The family is on the 1870 Federal Census in Grayson County, Texas. Wilson M. was listed as a trader and Mary was keeping house. Five of their children were still living at home. Sometime after this census, the couple separated. Mary Jane Jennings Allred died in Bridgewater, Wise County, Texas, November 15, 1891.
His mother, Elizabeth Ivie Allred, died in Grayson County near Whitesboro, Texas, March 22, 1870. She is buried in a private cemetery in Grayson County. Sometime after 1870, he went to Spring City, Utah, with his father, William Hackley Allred, and younger sister, Pearlina Jane Allred Coy, a young widow with no children.
The first records for the father and son are in Spring City in 1874. In 1875, Wilson Monroe married Elizabeth Ann Ivie, the daughter of Richard Anderson Ivie and Elizabeth Dobson Ivie. They had 12 children. He then married Barbara Allred, daughter of his Uncle James Tillman Sanford Allred and Fannie Shantaquint. They had five children. The 1880 Utah Territorial Census lists him as a horse dealer and both wives as "keeping house."
About 1898, he and his wife, Elizabeth, moved to Price, Utah. He died there September 26, 1910. The 1910 Federal Census listed his occupation as gardner. He is buried in the Price Cemetery.