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Allen Freeman Smithson

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Allen Freeman Smithson

Birth
Pendleton, Anderson County, South Carolina, USA
Death
27 Sep 1877 (aged 61)
Paria, Kane County, Utah, USA
Burial
Kane County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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Son of James (or John) Bartley Smithson and Sarah Weatherford.
He married first to Lutica Hollis Holladay 9 Apr 1840. They were the parents of five. He married next to Jennett B. Taylor 16 Dec 1849. They had 14 children.
Allegedly he was buried at Henrieville, but the Utah Burial database indicates he was buried at Paria (Pahreah).
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Died at Pahreah, Kane County, September 27th, 1877, at 2 O'clock a.m., of typhoid fever, ALLEN FREEMAN SMITHSON, son of Bartley and Sarah Smithson, aged 61 years, 7 months and 16 day.

Deceased was born February 11th, 1816, at Pendleton County, South Carolina and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christs of Latter-day Saints December 7th 1843, by Elder Benjamin Clapp, in Marion County, Alabama. He emigrated with the Saints to Utah and arrived in Salt Lake City, July 29th 1847. In 1851 he went to California, remained there until the fall of 1857, and returned to Utah and settled at Beaver, Beaver County, and from there volunteered to go and build up the south. Arrived in Washington County in 1859, and endured the hardships of Dixie, faithfully until 1872, when he was called by Pres. F Snow to Pahreah, where he acted as Bishop of the Pahreah Ward until his death and as President of the United Order, which was organized in 1874, and was a faithful worker therein until his death. He was a kind husband and father, and was beloved by all who knew him. He was the father of nineteen children. He leaves a large family and many friends to mourn his loss. He was an honest, upright and industrious man, and died a faithful Latter-day Saint, and in hopes of a glorious resurrection.

Deseret News
17 October 1877
Contributor: For Get Me Not (46897116)
Son of James (or John) Bartley Smithson and Sarah Weatherford.
He married first to Lutica Hollis Holladay 9 Apr 1840. They were the parents of five. He married next to Jennett B. Taylor 16 Dec 1849. They had 14 children.
Allegedly he was buried at Henrieville, but the Utah Burial database indicates he was buried at Paria (Pahreah).
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Died at Pahreah, Kane County, September 27th, 1877, at 2 O'clock a.m., of typhoid fever, ALLEN FREEMAN SMITHSON, son of Bartley and Sarah Smithson, aged 61 years, 7 months and 16 day.

Deceased was born February 11th, 1816, at Pendleton County, South Carolina and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christs of Latter-day Saints December 7th 1843, by Elder Benjamin Clapp, in Marion County, Alabama. He emigrated with the Saints to Utah and arrived in Salt Lake City, July 29th 1847. In 1851 he went to California, remained there until the fall of 1857, and returned to Utah and settled at Beaver, Beaver County, and from there volunteered to go and build up the south. Arrived in Washington County in 1859, and endured the hardships of Dixie, faithfully until 1872, when he was called by Pres. F Snow to Pahreah, where he acted as Bishop of the Pahreah Ward until his death and as President of the United Order, which was organized in 1874, and was a faithful worker therein until his death. He was a kind husband and father, and was beloved by all who knew him. He was the father of nineteen children. He leaves a large family and many friends to mourn his loss. He was an honest, upright and industrious man, and died a faithful Latter-day Saint, and in hopes of a glorious resurrection.

Deseret News
17 October 1877
Contributor: For Get Me Not (46897116)

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