Elihu Marcellus Allen (born May 14, 1791) and Lola Ann Clawson (born Jan. 12, 1806). Lola Ann was Elihu's second wife. His first wife was Laura Foote. Laura was born April 23, 1792, she married Elihu about 1812. Laura died Oct. 17, 1823 at the age of 31. She and Elihu were blessed with 4 children; Lucinda, George, Franklin and Caroline Matilda.
This must have been a difficult time for Elihu being left to care for four young children. About 1827, he married Lola Ann Clawson. Lola and Elihu were blessed with 12 children: Helen Rebecca, Laura Albina, Phoebe Ann, Charles William, Wyatt, Elihu Moroni, Lola Elizabeth, Almira Gilbert, Emma Melvina, George Warren, John Ferguson, and Joseph Brigham.
Lola Ann died on Feb. 17, 1848 in Salt Lake City. Her youngest child was only three years old. John Ferguson Allen was four. Elihu was left once again to care for his children.
In 1847 Elihu Marcellus Allen was a member of Captain Jedediah M. Grand's hundred, part of which arrived in the Great Salt Lake Oct 2, 1847. The children who came with him were Elihu Moroni, Lola Elizabeth, John Ferguson, and Joseph Brigham. Were the other children with William and Caroline Allen Weeks, during the journey, their mother being dead. Elihu was a member of the Mormon Batallion for a short time, he died not long after entering the Salt Lake Valley. Because of the number of his children and Elihu being a widower in his 60s, many of his younger children were taken in and adopted by Brigham Young and his family. They were adopted 12 Mar 1847.
ELIHU MARCELLUS ALLEN (1791-1850)
Elihu Marcellus Allen was born 14 May 1791 in Cambridge, Washington, New York to George and Rebecca Allen. His first wife was Laura Foote and they had four children, all born in Dryden, Tompkins, New York. Laura Foote Allen died 17 October 1823 in Dryden. In 1827, most likely in New York, Elihu, now a young widower with four children, married his first wife’s first cousin Lola Ann Clawson. Together Elihu and Lola had 12 children, at least 7 of whom lived to adulthood. Their first child was born in Dryden. The next five children were born in Greenwood, Steuben, New York, where their fifth child, Wyatt Allen, lived only 11 days, passing away on 14 March 1834.
Elihu Marcellus Allen and his wife Lola Ann Clawson were baptized into the LDS Church in 1834 or 1835. Following their baptism they experienced untold hardships as members of their new-found faith. Soon after their conversion to the LDS Church they moved to a spot four miles southeast of Far West, Caldwell, Missouri at Log Creek. Here their seventh child was born. Elihu’s oldest son, George Allen, was drowned in the Missouri River on 19 June 1838 while floating logs down river. Elihu and his family experienced severe persecution while living in Missouri because of their religion. Elihu executed an affidavit on 18 May 1839 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois itemizing a bill of damages against the State of Missouri for $1,000 for property lost and expenses incurred during the expulsion.
A daughter from his first wife, Caroline Allen, was married 11 June 1839 to William Weeks, the architect of the Nauvoo Temple and later assistant to Truman Angel in designing the Salt Lake Temple. William left the LDS Church and he and Caroline moved to California. Elihu moved his family four miles east of Burton, Adams, Illinois where his ninth, tenth, and eleventh children were born. Within two weeks in December 1845 and just three months following the birth of their last child, they lost three of their youngest children--first Emma Melvina Allen on 4 December, then Almira Gilbert Allen on 8 December, then George Warren Allen on 17 December.
Elihu and his family traveled across Iowa in 1846 to the Missouri River. On 12 March 1847 his youngest child, Joseph Brigham Allen, was “adopted” by Brigham Young shortly before the first group of Saints pulled out under the leadership of Brigham Young headed for Utah. Later that same year Elihu and Lola Ann with six of their children crossed the plains to Utah in the Jedediah M. Grant Company, arriving in the Great Salt Lake Valley on 2 October 1847. Elihu lost his second wife Lola Ann Clawson Allen after that first winter in the Valley. She died on 17 February 1848 at Great Salt Lake City, just four and one-half months after they arrived. Elihu Marcellus Allen died of inflammation of the lungs on 11 October 1850 in Great Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Submitted by Brent J. Belnap
Elihu Moroni Allen was one of the sons of Elihu Marcellus Allen
Name:
Elihu Moroni Allen
Birth Date: 09 Oct 1835
Birth Place: Greenwood, Steuben, New
York
Parents: Elihu Marcellus and Lola
Ann Clawson
Allen
Death Date: 22 Nov 1912
Death Place: Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho
Arrival: 2 Oct 1847, Jedediah M. Grant Co.
Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Graham
Marriage Date: abt 1853
Marriage Place: Utah
Spouse's Parents: James and Mary Elizabeth Butler Graham
Spouse's Birth Date: 08 Oct 1836
Spouse's Birth Place: Laurel Hill, Chester, Pennsylvania
Spouse's Death Date: 02 Jul 1906
Spouse's Death Place: Huntsville, Weber, Utah
Elihu Moroni 's parents were baptized into the Church about 1834 or 1835 . In
1847 the family started their trek to the Valley. They spent the first winter in
Salt lake where his mother died. His father died two years later. His youngest
brother was adopted by Brigham Young after his mother's death. At the age of 18,
Elihu married 16-year-old Mary Elizabeth Graham . They made their first home in
Riverdale, Utah . It is thought that they may have lived for a short time in the
1850 's in Huntsville, Utah . Elihu made a lot of the furniture they used. Elihu
was a farmer and a good one. The Indians gave the settlers trouble at first, but
later got along with them. They called Elihu "Baldy Allen"
and friend. He was active in church and community affairs. He moved to
Pocatello, Idaho , where he died. Children: Charles Marcellus , b. 29 May 1854 ,
Riverdale, Utah . D. 17 Jul 1918 . Elihu Moroni , b. 4 Sep 1858 , Riverdale,
Weber, Utah . Md. 1st, 18 Oct 1880 , Mary Ann
Baird . Md. 2nd, Fannie Huntsman . D. 21 Mar 1914 , Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho .
Mary Losina , b. 23 Aug 1860 , Riverdale, Utah . Md. 18 Oct 1879 , Hyrum Blanch
Pidcock . D. 10 Jun 1916 , LaGrande, Union, Oregon . Phoebe Isadora , b. 21 Jun
1862 , Riverdale, Utah . Md. 9 Nov 1882 , Peter Edward Chatelain . D. 11 Jan
1918 . John Franklin , b. 11 Aug 1864 , Huntsville, Utah . Md. 27 Mar 1887 ,
Mary Alice Harmon . D. 26 Mar 1944 , Burley, Cassia, Idaho . George Adelbert ,
b. 1 Jun 1866 , Huntsville, Utah . Md. 23 May 1893 , Lydia Musetta Gribble . D.
7 Oct 1931 . Lola Bernetta , b. 1 Jun 1868 ,
Huntsville, Utah . Md. 20 Jan 1885/6 , Alexander Chatelain . D. 8 Mar 1942 ,
Salt Lake City, Utah . Joseph William , b. 7 Mar 1870 , Huntsville, Utah . Md. 7
Mar 1895 , Helen Adeline Hatton . D. 22 Feb 1925 . Eliza Emma , b. 24 Dec 1872 ,
Huntsville, Utah . Md. 1st, 7 Jul 1890 , Thomas Wright . Md. 2nd, Jay Grant
Crandall . D. 30 May 1949 , Ogden, Utah . David Allen
, b. 14 Aug 1874 , Huntsville, Utah . Md. 28 Jul 1893 , Petria Pearl Jensina
Jensen . D. 7 Mar 1931 , Aberdeen, Bingham, Idaho . James Thomas , b. 3 Sep 1876
, Huntsville, Utah . D. 11 Jul 1922 , Weber Co, Utah . Joy Belnap