Redick Newton Allred

Redick Newton Allred was born February 21, 1822, in Bedford County, Tennessee, the son of Isaac Allred and Mary Calvert. The family moved to Missouri, where they joined the Church. Redick and his twin brother Reddin were baptized in 1833. With the Saints they moved to Clay County in 1835, to Caldwell County in 1837, and into Far West in 1838, pursuant to the Prophet's instructions, and from there to Illinois with the body of the Saints, where they settled in Nauvoo. Redick worked as a mason, part of the time on the Nauvoo Temple. On November 26, 1843, he married Lucy Hoyt (nine children: Isaac Newton, Lucy Adeline, Redick Redin, Lucina Azelia, Avelia Emmagene, Newera Martina, Janet Adelade, Henry Delos, Mary Matilda). In February Redick drove a team to help the first company leaving Nauvoo, then returned for his own family. In Winter Quarters he enlisted in the Mormon Battalion, with which he marched to Santa Fe and San Diego, arriving January 30, 1847. In July he was mustered out, traveled to San Francisco and from there to Winter Quarters and Allred's settlement, where he was reunited with his wife and daughter on December 19, 1847. They traveled to Utah in the Allen Taylor Company, in which Redick served as captain of the second fifty, with 73 wagons, including his father, father-in-law, and Captain Taylor, arriving in Salt Lake City on October 16, 1849.

The following year Redick and Reddin and their families settled near the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. In August 1852 he and Reddin, with others, were called to serve a mission to the Hawaiian Islands. Redick left October 21 and returned home to his family in Kaysville July 16, 1855, where he stayed until the move south occasioned by the Utah War in 1857. In October 1856 he responded to President Brigham Young's call to go to the aid of the Martin and Willie handcart companies. The same year he was called to serve as a counselor in the bishopric of the Kaysville Ward. On January 11, 1857, he married Amilla Jane McPherson. He served as a major in the Nauvoo Legion during the Utah War.

In 1858 Redick and his family moved to Nephi, Juab County, and the following year to Spring City, Sanpete County. On January 5, 1861, he married Celstia W. Warrick (no children). He served in the Black Hawk War. He moved to the new community of Chester, and when the Sanpete Stake was organized in 1877 Redick was called as bishop of the Chester Ward and served for ten years. In 1888 he served a term in the Utah Penitentiary for polygamy. He served five terms in the Territorial Legislature, was a justice of the peace, postmaster of Spring City, and a member of Spring City's first city council. He was ordained a patriarch by Apostle George Teasdale on May 15, 1898. He died October 10, 1905 in Chester.