Joseph Stewart ALLEN
BIRTH: LTR 215- Index Card from the Nauvoo Temple, gives birth, parentage, marriage and ordinance data. Gives birth date as 1810. OCCUPATION: Cooper, farmer and shoemaker OTHER: Served a mission to Indiana and was a member of Zion's CAmp.
BIRTH: LTR 215- Temple Index Card for the Nauvoo Temple, gives birth, parentage and marriage data as well as ordinance data. OCCUPATION: Cooper
LTR 794- Manti City Cemetery Records. Gives birth, parents and death information. Book 1 of Burials, Pg. 29
NOTE: Child 4, Cordelia, died on the exodus from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters.
NOTE: Child 5, Calista, died on the exodus from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters.
BIRTH: LTR 576- Winter Quarters, Omaha, NE Cemetery List, Grave #201. "Born 25 Feb 1847, Rush Bottom above Winter Quarters. son of Joseph S. and Lucy D. Allen. Died Winter Quarters, NE, 16 Aug 1847- age 5 mo, 22 days. Of Chills and fever." OTHER: Some records show this to be Joseph Lorenzo Allen, but the cemetery list (as well as the name on the Winter Quarter's memorial) has Joseph D. Allen
SOURCES: 1. Family Records 2. Ancestral File BIRTH- LTR 35-COPY OF DEATH CERT (DOES NOT GIVE PLACE) SEE HISTORY OF MORLEY AND ALLEN FAMILIES FOR MORE INFO MARRIAGE- LTR 44-FOR ANNIE MCCONNELL AND HARRIETT FOWLER LTR 9- FOR MARRIAGE TO MARY ELLEN ALLEN BOTH ABOVE LETTERS FROM ST GEORGE TEMPLE DEATH- LTR 35-IDAHO DEATH CERT-REGISTER 6, FILE #45508 TEMPLE-LTR 44-ENDOWMENT AND SEALING TO HARRIETT FOWLER AND ANNIE MCCONNEL LTR 9- SEALING TO MARY ELLEN ALLEN
He married Lucy Diantha Morley 2 Sep 1835 at Far West, Caldwell, Missouri . Lucy Diantha Morley was born at Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio 4 Oct 1815 daughter of Isaac Morley and Lucy Gunn .
They were the parents of 12
children:
Mary Elizabeth Allen
born 15 Aug 1836.
Caroline Delight Allen
born 15 Sep 1838.
Lucy Diantha Gunn Allen
born 28 Sep 1840.
Cordelia Allen
born 31 Jan 1843.
Calista Allen
born 25 Feb 1845.
Joseph D. Allen
born 25 Feb 1847.
Isaac Morley Allen
born 28 Mar 1849.
Charles Albert Allen
born 16 Aug 1851.
Hyrum Allen
born 12 Aug 1853.
Harriet Leonora Allen
born 8 Mar 1857.
Simeon Morley Allen
born 3 Oct 1859.
Clara Amelia Allen
born 8 May 1861.
Joseph Stewart Allen died 25 Apr 1889 at Huntington, Emery, Utah .
Lucy Diantha Morley died 19 Oct 1908 at Orderville, Kane, Utah .