Married Elizabeth Ann Davies 2 July 1851
Wiley Payne-Mary Eliza-Mary Eliza-Eudean-Earl
Died 28 March 1912
Buried in the Emery Cemetery
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Wiley Payne Allred was born in Farmington, Bedford County, Tennessee, 31 May 1818. His father’s name was James Allred and his mother was Elizabeth Warren. He was baptized by George N. Hinkle on 10 September 1832. He was confirmed by Daniel Cathcard on 10 September 1832. He was ordained a Seventy by Jacob Gates April 6, 1841. He was ordained a High Priest by Rubin W. Allred in 1853.
While a boy of twelve years he left Tennessee and went to Missouri. He joined the Mormon Church in 1832. Joseph Smith blessed him at 18 years of age to practice medicine. He was a herb doctor. He worked in Sanpete County, Utah, and later in Emery County, Utah. He came to Utah in 1851. He was Bishop in Sevier County in 1853. He moved to Emery County from Spring City 19 November 1884. He was a doctor and a stone cutter. He had blue eyes and black hair. He died 28 March 1912 at Emery, Utah, of old age.
His wives and children in chronological order:
Sarah Zabriskie, married 26 June 1836 (daughter of Henry Zabriskie and Ellen Galpin, of Eugene County, Indiana, pioneers 1851). She was born 8 October 1814 in Eugene County, Indiana and died 22 May 1851 while en route to Utah. She was baptized in October 1835 by Thomas B. Marsh, confirmed October by Thomas B. Marsh. Their children were James Henry, born 17 June 1837; Parley Pratt, born 8 July 1839, and married Caroline Anderson; Elizabeth Hannah born 27 September 1843 and married Sanford Holman; Wiley Payne, born 19 January 1847 and married Emma Anderson; Sarah Eleanor, born 10 June 1850. After Sarah's death her family lived in Provo and Fountain Green, Utah.
Elizabeth Ann Davies, married 2 July 1851. She was born 15 July 1815. Their child, Mary Eliza, was born 31 July 1852 and married Andrew Anderson. She lived in Provo briefly after arriving in Utah and then in Foutain Green.
Johannah Olsen, married 28 October1863 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (She was the daughter of Hans Olsen of Hydleberg, Sweden. She was born 10 November 1835 and came to Utah in 1863. Their children: William Alma, born 28 July 1864 and married Nancy Miles. Hulda Deseret, born 10 March 1866 and married Joseph Nielson; Martin, born 11 June 1868 and married Susan Jane Barney; Isaac, born 7 September 1870 and married Johannah Christina Christensen; Reuben, born 26 April 1874 and died February 1875; Sena, born 15 December 1875 and died January 15, 1876; John Taylor, born 31 November 1879.
Caroline Andrea Frederickson, married 31 July 1871 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born 18 November 1841 and died 10 November 1873. No children. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mother’s name was Me Devey.
Wiley Payne was a friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith. He and his family moved to the Muddy (now Emery, UT) in 1884. As a young man, he received a special blessing from the Prophet Joseph Smith who told him that if would study herbs and their healing power he would obtain great knowledge along this line.
He had many experiences while living in Spring City, Utah during both the Walker and Blackhawk Indian Wars, rendering valuable help in this town. He was considered very good at setting bones, pulling teeth and treating wounds. He always said the only broken bone that hurt was his own, which he set while he was along after a load of wood.
Wiley Payne Allred
Material for this biography was taken from a history written by his granddaughter, Grace H. Sainsbury. Stories by his son Isaac Allred and his daughter, Hulda Nielsen and includes his personal testimony which he dictated to his granddaughter, Mary Johannah Allred.
Wiley Payne Allred was born 31 May 1818 in Farmington, Bedford County, Tennessee. He was the son of James and Elizabeth Warren Allred. On September 19, 1832, he was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From Tennessee, he moved with his parents to Missouri where he passed through the persecutions of the Saints in that state and was driven into Illinois.
At Nauvoo, he was the Prophet Joseph Smith’s hired hand and lived in his home. He was also a member of the Prophet’s body guard. He always enjoyed telling his experience of helping build a barn for the Prophet. He said many times when he was working around the place, the Prophet would come bounding out of his office and demand that he stop his work and engage in jumping or wrestling with him or some other athletic sports. He was with the Prophet on some of his most trying and dangerous times, disguising himself, going with the mob to find out their plans so that he might protect him (Joseph Smith). He was working in the mob as a spy the night the Prophet was killed and he saw him fall from the window of the Carthage Jail. After the assassination at Carthage Jail, John Taylor was rescued and taken to Wiley Payne’s father’s home, James Allred.
Wiley Payne had known the names of the different herbs that grew about their home when he was only seven years old. While he was living in the Prophet’s home, the Prophet told him that he was a natural born doctor and that he should follow that profession. (This happened at a time when the Prophet’s leg was badly hurt and gangrene had set in. Wiley P. Allred and his father, James Allred, doctored the Prophet’s leg at that time.) The Prophet gave Wiley Payne a Doctor’s book on herbs and their uses. Then he gave him a special blessing and told him that if he would make a study of this book and of herbs that he would be able to put his finger on the spot where the trouble was in his patients. He was really able to do that. He studied and used the book carefully and treasured it throughout his life. He and his family have thought of it as something sacred. It is still in the family. In the last years of Wiley Payne’s life he made the claim that no living person knew the Prophet more than he.
Wiley Payne Allred was with the Allred branch which was one of the forty LDS Branches of the Church organized in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in 1846 and continued until 1852. The center of the Branch was about five miles east of Council Bluffs. In 1848 the Saints of the Allred Branch raised crops of wheat for spring harvest. One year they planted 24 acres of wheat. They also raised corn, buckwheat, turnips, etc. The Allred Branch, or as it was sometimes called “Allred’s Camp” was frequently mentioned in the Frontier Guardian. The settlement was broken up in 1852 when all the saints who had located temporarily in Pottawattamie County migrated to Utah.
In June 1846 Wiley Payne married Sarah Elizabeth Zabriaskie of Eugene County, Indiana. They had five children, James Hon., Parley Pratt, Elizabeth Hannah, Wiley Payne, II, and Sarah Eleanor.
On May 22, 1852 Wiley Payne with his family started to Utah in Captain Kelsey’s Company. His wife was ill at the time but she was very anxious to go to Utah and thought she could make the trip. However it was too much for her and she passed away the first night they camped. They had stopped by the ranch of a man, Mr. Dapree. He walked up to the fence cursing the Mormons and telling them to drive on, but when he saw what had happened, he was so touched by the family’s grief that he told them to stay.
Wiley Payne was so overcome with grief that he almost persuaded himself to return to Council Bluffs with the rest of his family. Finally he decided to return to Council Bluffs and bury his wife and then continue the journey.
Before they reached Utah, the leaders of the Church advised him to marry Elizabeth Ann Davies, a widow lady. They were married and had one child, Mary Elizabeth.
When they arrived in Utah, they settled in Sessions for a short time. Then they moved to Provo; and from there, they were called to go to Spring City, Sanpete County, in 1853. Because of Indian troubles, the settlers were forced to move from place to place. Wiley Payne moved to Manti, to Fountain Green and back to Spring City. He went through all the hardships of both the Walker and Blackhawk wars. Much of his property was destroyed by the Indians.
Wiley Payne believed his children should have some education and he taught them to care for themselves. He was a brilliant man himself and took care of all of his family business affairs. He was very strict and stern with his children. In Spring City, he had a big blackboard hanging on the wall and the alphabet written on the board. The children had to study from that. Every night that he was home, they held a class period which he instructed. Some of his children had very little schooling except what he gave them.
On July 31, 1871, he married Caroline Andrea Frederickson. She was a very refined and lovable woman but only lived a short time, passing away the 8th of November 1871.
In 1884 Wiley Payne and his family moved to the Muddy (Emery) in Emery County. He spent the last eighteen years of his life there and did much to help settle the town of Emery. During all these years he was the Doctor in each community where he lived, using herbs as his medicine to fight contagious diseases and crude instruments to perform many surgical operations; having faith in the supreme being and the blessing he had received from the Prophet. At one time a man living in Idaho sent for him to come and doctor his wife who had dropsy. He made the trip on a horse, cured the woman and for his pay he received a cow which he drove back to Fountain Green.
People had a great deal of confidence in him as a pioneer doctor. He deserves a prominent place in history. He was also a very skillful stone cutter and made many tombstones from native rock. He was of medium weight, had blue eyes and black hair, which turned a snowy white as he grew older. He had a very erect posture, was an athlete when young and was very active in his old age. He was very stern, yet kind and tender hearted.
He had a very strong testimony of the gospel and proclaimed right up to his dying day that Joseph Smith was a true Prophet of God. A while before his death he dictated his testimony to his granddaughter, Mary Johanna Allred. She wrote it in her autograph book and he signed his name. His hand was very shaky and trembling, but the words he dictated rang strong and true. They are as follows:
"Joseph Smith was the greatest man I have ever known, and a true Prophet of God." Signed, Wiley Payne Allred.
He passed away March 28, 1912, at Emery, Utah, at the age of 94, a true and faithful Latter-day Saint.
Wiley Payne used what is now called the Emery County Cabin as a doctor's office where he set limbs, pulled teeth, and applied herbal remidies. The Wiley Payne Allred house is in Spring City.
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