Elizabeth Alexander Allen headstone

life sketch of Lewis Allen

Lewis Allen
b. 18 June 1813 in Somerset, Pulaski Co., Kentucky

son of Rial Allen and Margaret Evins
by Maude Bliss Allen & Mary Black Randall

Information obtained from “Heartthrobs” by Kate B. Carter; “Under Dixie Sun” by Hazel Bradshaw; Material collected by pioneers of Locality; Prominent Men of Utah Pioneers; Genealogies and Biographies by Eschom; Genealogies in the family; the Book of James McClintock, Historian of Arizona (Maud B. Allen).

Lewis Allen, the son of Rial Allen and Margaret Evins was born 18 June 1813 in Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky, in a house made of loge and later clapboarded. It had a window on each side of a large fireplace. It was situated on Fishing Creek about two miles from the home of his grandfather, Samuel Allen. His father built this house on a hill and later decided to move it down by the river and after moving it he sawed the eaves off the house so that the witches would not molest him for it’s removal.

Nancy Ester Allen

Nancy Ester Allen biography

Nancy Ester Allen Black

15 December 1861 - 8 August 1931

History arranged by Nora Lund, DUP Historian

Nancy Ester Allen was born 15 December 1861 in Savannah, Andrew County, Missouri. Her father, Lewis Allen, son of Rial Allen was born in 1813 in Kentucky. Her mother was Elizabeth Alexander, daughter of Jonathan Alexander who was a pioneer to Washington County, Utah in 1862.

Nancy's parents were married in Jackson County, Missouri in 1836. They had the following children: Tabitha Jane, Beulah Ann, William who died in infancy, Rial, Jonathan Alexander, Samuel who died infancy, James Bird, Sarah Melissa, Andrew Jackson, Martha Permelia, Nancy Ester, and Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen was the 13th child and was born in Washington, Washington County, Utah 11 April 1866.

Lewis and Elizabeth were faithful members of the Mormon Church and were planning and working for the time when they could bring their large family across the plains to Utah.

According to the book - "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah", p. 714, Lewis Allen came to Utah in 1862, traveling with an independent ox ¬team company. It is supposed that Elizabeth's parents, the Alexanders came with them and that both families were called soon after to go south some 300 miles to the Dixie Cotton Mission. About this time, because of the Civil War, the Church was experimenting with the raising of cotton in Southern Utah. President Brigham Young was calling men who had lived in the Southern United States and knew how to raise cotton and sorghum cane, to take part in this Dixie Cotton Mission. (Under Dixie Sun)