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        1847–1868

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        Birth Date
        28 January 1827
        Death Date
        14 April 1871
        Gender
        Male
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        James Riley Allred

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        • According to his obituary, James was part of the Mormon Battalion. His obituary also confirms his birth date and death date. Redick Allred's journal and William McBride's journal both provide evidence of James traveling back to Utah in the 1855 McBride company.

        Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company (1848)

        • Age at Departure: 21

        William McBride Company (1855)

        • Age at Departure: 28

        Traveled with

        • Reddick Newton Allred (Age: 33)

        Sources

        • 1870 Utah Census.
        • Allred, Redick Newton, Journals, 1852-[1856], reel 9, vol. 2.
        • "Died," Deseret News, 26 April 1871, [9].
        • Find a Grave (Website)
        • Pratt, Parley P. to George A. Smith, 30 April 1855, "Elders' Correspondence," Deseret News [Weekly], 22 August 1855, 190.
        • Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 , [1996], 222-23.
        • Ricketts, Norma Baldwin. The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996, 23.
        • Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966.
        • William McBride journals, 1854-1855; 1874, vol. 2.