Allen HENDRICKS

1819 - 1850  (31 years)

• Name	Allen HENDRICKS
  Birth	12 Jun 1819	West Fork of Drakes Creek, Simpson, Kentucky   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Jul 1850	Near South Pass, Wyoming   [3]
  Burial	Near South Pass, Wyoming   [1]
  Person ID	I4084	HHDHA
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2010

  
  

  Father	Samuel HENDRICKS,   b. 18 Apr 1791, Little Buffalo Creek, Rockingham, North Carolina d. 18 Apr 1856, , Claiborne, Louisiana (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Rebecca DORRIS,   b. 22 Feb 1794, Mt. Savage, Allegeny, Maryland d. 17 Dec 1835, Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	4 Oct 1813	Sumner Co., TN   [4]
  Family ID	F402	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth REED,   b. 22 Apr 1824, Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee d. 12 Jun 1850, North Platt River, Nebraska (Age 26 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1845	, Simpson, Kentucky
  Children	1. Rebecca Eliza HENDRICKS,   b. 22 Jul 1842, Red River, Claiborne, Louisiana, USA d. 8 Aug 1913, Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA (Age 71 years)   2. William Melton HENDRICKS,   b. Apr 1844, Red River, Claiborne, Louisiana, USA   3. John Nelson HENDRICKS,   b. 20 Jan 1847, Red River, Claiborne, Louisiana, USA d. 20 Mar 1904, Lerdo, Torreon, Mexico (Age 57 years)   4. Samuel Allen HENDRICKS,   b. 22 Dec 1848, Red River, Claiborne, Louisiana, USA d. 26 Jun 1900, Santiago, Papasquiaro, Durango, Mexico (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F395	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

• Sources

  [S13] Allen, Marguerite Hendricks, Henry Hendricks Genealogy, (Henry Hendricks Family Organization, Third Ed. 1995), Fourth Generation, p. 48., JSMB US/CAN Book 929.273 H384a. [S12] Leavitt, DelLynn W., Probabilities, Possibilities, Commonalities and Plain Common Sense., ((Recently out of print)), Fourth Generation, p. 48. Samuel Hendricks lived on the West Branch of Drakes Creek in Simpson Co., Kentucky with his father Abraham Hendricks very near to the Tennessee boarder. [S13] Allen, Marguerite Hendricks, Henry Hendricks Genealogy, (Henry Hendricks Family Organization, Third Ed. 1995), Fourth Generation p. 48., JSMB US/CAN Book 929.273 H384a. In the spring of 1850, Allen and his family left their home at Red River, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, intending to go to California. After visiting with relatives in Kentucky they went to Council Bluffs, Iowa and joined a company of Mormons bound for Salt lake City. Allen's brother, Josiah, was with the group. While traveling along the North Platte River in Nebraska, Elizabeth died of cholera, 12 June 1850. When the company arrived at the head of the Sweet Water River in Wyoming, presumably near South Pass, Allen became ill. He got up in the night and according to one account, mistakenly took the wrong medicine which caused his death on 12 July 1850. Josiah cared for the four orphaned children until they reached Salt Lake City, where four of Allen's sisters were living. Samuel, the baby, and Elizabeth, the oldest, were taken by Neriah and Rebecca Lewis; William by Thomas Edwin and Tabitha Ricks; John, three years of age, was given to Brother and Sister Rosell Hyde and two years later to the Jonathan Holmes family, where he lived until grown. However, when Josiah first arrived in the Salt Lake Valley with the four children, he took them to his Aunt Drusilla and Uncle James Hendricks, where they lived for some time. In the spring of 1850 they left their home in Louisiana to go to California. After visiting with relatives in Kentucky they went to Council Bluffs, Iowa and joined a company of Mormons bound for Salt Lake City. Allen's brother, Josiah, was with the group . While traveling along the North Platte River in Nebraska, Elizabeth died of cholera 12 June 1850. When the company arrived at the head of the Sweet Water River in Wyoming, preumably near South Pass, Allen became ill. He got up in the night and according to one account mistakenly took the wrong medicine which caused his death on the 12 July 1850. [S6] Research Notes. Beverly Hathaway and Mary Hart, Sumenr Co., TN., Marriage Records, 1787-1828, FHL Film # 467,485, p. 57. Samuel Hendricks and Rebecca Dorris, 4 October 1813 by William Summers. Page 9. of notes.