Oliver Tillman ALLRED

Allred Family Organization

Oliver Tillman ALLRED (010203100604)

Allred Progenitors: (James Tillman Sanford Jr., James Tillman Sanford, James, William, Thomas)
Born: 04/23/1882 Spring City, Sanpete Co., UT
Died: 07/29/1903 Spring City, Sanpete Co., UT
Submitted by: Sharon Allred Jessop 03/22/2000

OLIVER TILLMAN ALLRED
(Written by Elizabeth Elmira Allred Aiken)

Oliver Tillman Allred was the fourth child and second son of James Tillman Allred Jr. and Christena Anderson Allred. He was born April 23, 1882 in Spring City, Utah. He was reared, along with seven other children in a faithful Latter-Day Saint home. He was baptized April 23, 1890. Oliver was honest and obedient. The children in the family were all kind and considerate to each other, even though they lived in a very tiny home without the conveniences of modern day.

Oliver started school in Spring City when he was six years old, but due to his poor health he failed to attend regularly. When he was quite young, he had spells with his stomach and would have to have it pumped out to relieve his suffering. He had faith in the lord and was always desirous of being administered to when he was ill. He over came that illness as he grew older. In his youth he was well liked be his boy companions as well as his girl friends.

He left home as a young man to work in the Delemar Mines in Nevada and when he was 17 years old he worked at the Kimberly mines in Delta, Colorado where he became “leaded” an illness from which he never fully recovered.

While he was working in Colorado, Oliver’s mother sent for him to make a trip to Canada with his father. They wanted to visit his brother “Q” who had moved there to homestead. Oliver’s Father Tillman had not been well when they undertook such a journey, he became worse on the trip and passed away in Canada at his son Q’s home. Shortly after Tillman’s death, Q’s wife Lena became very ill herself and returned to Utah to live. Later Q left Canada and came back to Utah to be with is family. They came to Spring City to help run his father’s farm. This left Oliver with the job of returning to Canada to help dispose of the property there.

After Oliver returned from Canada in January of 1903, he wasn’t well and passed away July 29, 1903. He passed away from hemorrhage of the lungs from working in the mines. Oliver was always thoughtful and considerate of his mother, more so than any of the children. So when he passed away it was very hard on his mother and it had only been one year since her husband died. Oliver was twenty one years, three months and five days old. Services and burial were held in Spring City, Utah July 31, 1903

[Taken from family history book, “From Allred to Allred” put together by Venna Severance]

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