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Show I Spring City Man Observes 80th Birthday A family reception and dinner honoring Brigham Y. Allred, widely known farmer and churchman of Spring City, in advance of his eightieth birthday birth-day anniversary, was held at his home Sunday. An active worker in the L u b church, Mr. Allred is a ward teacher and a quorum member of the high priests' quorum. Mr Allred was bom at Eph-raim, Eph-raim, August 25, 1862, a son of James T. S. and Eliza Mainwar-ing Mainwar-ing Allred. His grandfather was a bodyguard to Joseph Smith, L D S church founder, and his father was one of the colonizers of Spring City. l I His parents were members of 'ite the original Mormon battalion $ '' and his father was sent bv church heads as an Indian inter- 5 '' preter and colonizer to Las Ve- "'e gas in 1855 and 1856. .;ge Mr. Allred has spent most of his life in Spring City, except 'ail for brief periods of residence in -sn( Ephraim, Circle valley and oth- er near-by communities. His wife, Christina Neilsen '' 51 Allred, died in 1929. Of their n!' eight sons and daughters, five are living. They are: Mrs. Anna 'iic Eliza Hansen, Earl Allred and "jer' Ives Allred, all of Spring City; $eI Mrs. Grace Ezell of Sanford! clir Colorado, and Huga Allred of sen Salt Lake City. He has sixteen 3' grandchildren and two great- -rt grandchildren. B |
