ALLEN FREEMAN SMITHSON
Allen Freeman Smithson was born in South Carolina. He, with his father's family later went to Alabama. There he grew to man hood, and met and married Letisha Hollis Holiday. There they joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
In the year 1846 they, with a company of Saints, started west to the Rocky Mountains. Wintering at Pueblo, now in Colorado. In the spring of 1847 they heard of the body of the church going westward to the mountains so they started northward striking the trail of the pioneers. They went on into the Salt Lake Valley, arriving there on the 29th of July, five days after the first pioneers had landed.
August 16, 1849 his wife Letisha, died leaving five little children. John Bartley, Sarah Catherine, James Davis, Mary Emma and Lehi.
December 16, 1849 he married Jennett Burton Taylor. The
family had made their home at Big Cottonwood near Salt Lake City
until the last part of 1850 on the first part of 1851 when they,
with a party of saints were called to colonize Southern
California, under the leadership of Amasa M. Lyman. He helped
survey San Bernadino and lived there until the last of 1857 when
the church authorities called the people back to Utah. After they
returned to Utah they settled for a short time at Beaver. In the
fall of 1858 they went to Southern Utah, locating at the Cotton
Farm, Washington. They stayed here helping to develop and build
up the country until 1873 when they with others were called to
the front for thus far in life they had been frontiersmen.
This time they located on a small creek in Kane County called Pahreah. Here they built a home in two different places on the creek. He was chosen Presiding Elder and Bishop of the ward and worked hard for the good of the people and building up the country. On the 27th of September 1877 he passed to the great beyond there to meet his reward for his long devoted life in the cause of truth and helping to advance God's purposes on earth.
Baptized by Elder B. L. Clapp
Confirmed by Elder Clapp and Crosby
height 6 ft. weight 165 blue eyes black hair
Died of Typhoid
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