PAULINUS HARVEY ALLRED--Some Utah Experiences, June 2013

Paulinus Harvey Allred A DEEPER UNDERSTANING OF THIS GREAT MAN Found in the Lehi Library Lineage: Isaac Allred (1788)and Mary Calvert (1793 Paulinus Harvey Allred (1829) and Melissa Isabel Norton (1824) James Henry Allred (1849) and Kate Markland Jones (1854) J Urban Allred (1874) and Amelia May Hammond (1877) and (2nd wife) Edna Bingham (1889 In the fall-winter of 1856 disaster hit some of the hand cart companies coming to Utah bringing Mormon immigrants from the east. Relief companies were rapidly formed to meet them and assist in their hazardous trek thru the snow-laden mountains. Brigham Young requested supplies. Paulinus Harvey Allred was one of those who volunteered to assist in the rescue of starving hand cart companies in distress near Fort Bridger. A distance of 330 miles was covered in fifteen days – thru cold and snow as much as twenty feet deep. In 1860, Isaac Goodwin planted a few alfalfa seeds he had brought to Lehi the year before. Only seven plants sprouted. For several years he tenderly and patiently increased his store of seeds, eventually selling it throughout the territory for only a dollar a pound. Alfalfa soon became the staple forage crop of the west. Paulinus Allred put up the first stack of Lucerne hay (alfalfa) in Lehi. This was in 1867. He was involved in civic and political activities, being elected as Lehi City Councilor in 1861. In 1865 he was elected a Supervisor and a policeman. In Salina Canyon (Sevier County), Utah in 1957, a monument marking the outbreak of the Black Hawk Indian war was dedicated. It is located on Highway 10, three miles east and south of the city Salina. Following is the inscription on the monument: “During the winter of 1864 a small band of Indians near Gunnison contracted Smallpox and blamed the white settlers. In April, 1865, the two parties met at Manti to solve the difficulties, but failed. Elijah B. Ward and James P. Anderson were killed by Indians in Manti canyon while hunting for lost cattle. A pursuing party under Colonel Paulinus Harvey Allred, out numbered by the Indians, was driven back. Next day the Indians raided Salina and took most of the cattle. Settlers were driven out. Warfare under Chief Black Hawk continued, spreading over southern Utah until 1871, when peace was restored and the settlers returned to their homes in Salina.” The Black Hawk war lasted for several years and resulted in the loss of many lives and thousands of dollars in property. It affected the entire southern part of the state. During the 1865 eruption of the Black Hawk war, two companies were called up. The second company was called up in April to rescue some men taken captive by Chief Tabby. This company was under the command of Paulinus H. Allred. This was the last conflict of importance with the Indians. Over one million dollars was spent by the territory, seventy citizens had met death, and twenty five towns had been abandoned. Prior to the linking of the Southern and Union Pacific railroads at Promontory Point, Utah, those going west pulled hand carts or used “Prairie Schooners” (wagons). From 1861 to 1868, immigrants moved supplies by wagon trains. The wagons and men were furnished by the Utah settlements. The first expedition in which Lehi men participated was April 1861. It consisted of 200 wagons, 4 oxen per wagon and 50,000 pounds of flour. Paulinus Harvey Allred was among the eight men from Lehi in this expedition. He also raised watermelons, but mostly to give away to children He was a colonel in the Nauvoo Legion and also in the Black Hawk War. If you visit the Church site at Martin’s Cove, Wyoming you will see an exhibit that tells the story of the rescue of the Saints at Martin’s Cove by the brethren from Utah. At the top of the list of the names of those rescuers is Paulinus Allred.