Elijah Allen, son of Andrew Lee Allen and Clarinda Knapp, was born 7 February 1826 at Burton, New York. He became a member of the LDS Church in Kirtland, Ohio in May of 1835 and confirmed [by?] Sidney Rigdon.

He shared many of the trials and persecutions in Missouri and Illinois with the early saints. He left Nauvoo in 1846 for the West driving a team for Brigham Young. When they arrived at Mt. Pisgah, he enrolled in the Mormon Battalion and marched as a private in Company B to California. He was discharged 16 July 1847, but was seized with a long illness. When he was well enough to work, he obtained work at the San Gabriel Mission until 1848.

In February 1848 with about twelve other men, he started for the Salt Lake Valley with 200 head of cattle, purchased for the Church. They arrived the latter part of May 1848 after a very hard journey. He commenced farming at the mouth of Red Butte Canyon. He paid $5.00 for a half-bushel of seed corn, and the same amount for 1/2 bushel of buckwheat. He had to pay 25 cents for a pound of flour. The crickets that destroyed the crops saved him the trouble of harvesting his crops. Later in the year of 1848, he started for the states with Mr. Miles Goodyear with a band of horses. On the Sweetwater River they met President Brigham Young and his company enroute to Salt Lake. He continued East and reached the states crossing the Missouri River on 23 October 1848. Here he met his parents, brothers, and sisters. He had been absent from them for two years and two months. When he returned to the Salt Lake Valley, he settled at Provo, Utah. He was identified with the 21st Quorum of Seventy. He died at Ft. Herriman, Salt Lake County, Utah on 12 April 1866. He was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

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