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1847–1868

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Birth Date
15 April 1818
Death Date
16 December 1890
Gender
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Franklin Allen

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  • Franklin traveled to Utah as a returning Mormon Battalion veteran in the Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments in 1847.

    He likely traveled back to Iowa to get his family and then returned to Utah in the Issac M. Stewart Company of 1852. A Franklin Allen is known to have traveled in that company with 5 others, the number in his family at that time.

    He later participated as one of the rescuers that were sent out in the winter of 1856 to assist the members of the Church stranded in Wyoming.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 29

Isaac M. Stewart Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 34
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Rebecca Allen (Age: 27)
  • George Wyatt Allen (Age: 8)
  • Caroline Matilda Allen (Age: 5)
  • Lavinia Allen (Age: 4)
  • Franklin Allen (Age: 1)

Rescue Companies (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 38

Sources

  • Franklin Allen diary, 1846 July-1848 October.
  • Gardner, Hamilton. History of Lehi: Including a Biographical Section (Salt Lake City: The Lehi Pioneer Committee, 1913), 110-111.
  • Isaac M. Stewart Emigrating Company, Journal.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 238.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 38.