Allred, Isaac Oliver

Then and Now, Lea County Familes and History, Vol I, 1979

Submitted by: Mrs. Cecil (Ruby) Allred

Isaac Oliver Allred was born in Alabam in 1829.

He was named for his father. After losing a young wife and three daughters to yellow fever, he enlisted in the Army on June 17th, 1861 and served at Princeton, Arkansas with Co. C. 33rd Arkansas Infantry.

A reciept was found that was dated March 11, 1864, showing that he was wounded and spent fifty-seven days in a Little Rock Arkansas hospital, paid 25 cents per day while there.

Later, he again remarried. The records show there were three children born to this union, an daughter and two sons, Tom and William Columbus. He left Arkansas with two small sons and came to Texas.

An original marriage certificvate was located in Lampasses, Texas and showed that he again married (September 27, 1889) to Mrs. Clara Allison, married by J. D. Shannon, J.P., precinct No.5, Lampasses, Texas.

This little family travelled west. Five children were born to I. O. and Clara Allred: Arthur (child) was burried in San Angelo, Clay (child) was burried in Sweetwater, Texas, Jessie was killed in WWII, Ethel Hoolbrook of Midland, Texas, and Isaac Oliver Allred Jr. of Carlsbad, New Mexico. The latter two were still living when this story was published in 1979.

Around 1868 this family filled on four sections of land that is in Tom Green County, Texas (created from Bexas County in 1874), near an old spring on the Concho River near old Ft. Chadburn or Ft. Tallahassee.

Bad luck sent them back to Arkansas in 1900. Then in 1902 they came back to Big Spring, Texas. In the years from 1915-1921 Isaac Oliver Sr. Isaac Oliver Jr. filed on land and proved up on a possession in New Mexico about eight miles north of Monument, New Mexico.

In the frieghtful blizzard of 1918. I. O. Allred Sr. was living in a dugout and had one of his feet frozen off, or had to have it removed. He mad a wooden leg to walk on, it is still in the family. On July 8, 1923 the other foot had to be removed with gangrene. It took his life and he is buried in the Mt. Olice Cemtery, Big Springs, Texas.

Isaac Oliver Allred Sr. was the great grandfather of Cecil Allred.