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original gravestone reads. He is buried at Patterson Grove Cemetery,
Randolph County, North Carolina, next to his parents. He is identified
as a School Teacher in the census. He never married.
Peggy Allred (Born c. 1806, Died 30 November 1830). A suicide. Hanged
herself from a dogwood sapling in the woods near Joseph Allred’s house.
Anna Allred (Born c. 1808). Married Lewis Hayes, 8 October 1857, Randolph
County, North Carolina. No children.
James Allred (Born c. 1810). Appears in 1860 census for Sandy Creek,
Randolph County (aged 50), living alone, and in 1870 census for Trinity
Township, Randolph County (aged 62), with his sister Rachel Miller (aged 54)
and her husband, Riley Miller (aged 59); does not appear in 1880 census.
Never married but had four children by liaisons with four different women:
Polly Burgess, Martitia Jane Stout, Dorinda Caroline Cox, and Susan Hay.
Jonathan Allred (Born 1812, Died June 1872). Married Nancy Allen (Born 1818,
Died November 1884), daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Allen of Montgomery
County. The marriage took place before 1841, as both are listed in 1850
census for Southern Division, Randolph County, North Carolina, with five
children, the oldest aged 9. Both are buried at Gray’s Chapel Methodist
Church. The birth and death dates are from gravestone inscriptions.
Rachel Allred (Born c. 1814, Died 1885). Married Riley Miller of Uwharrie
River, 26 May 1836, Randolph County, North Carolina (Died c. 1881).
Elvina Allred (Born c. 1816, Died c. 1845).
Sources: Cemetery records are from http://www.allredfamily.org or from
personal observation. Census records and marriage records added.
The ancestry of Rachael Allred, wife of Joseph Allred, is uncertain. It is
long-standing family tradition that Joseph Allred and Rachael Allred were
first cousins. Dr. Rulon C. Allred, in his book “The Allred Family in
America,” published 1965, identifies Rachel Allred as the daughter of Thomas
Allred (p. 2-1), and therefore a first cousin to her husband Joseph, who was
the son of John Allred (p. 5-1), brother of Thomas Allred. This has recently
been questioned by Larry W. Cates, primarily because Thomas Allred’s will,
dated 8 Nov 1809, identifies his daughter as Rachel Brown. This was known by
Dr. Rulon C. Allred, who named Robert Brown as Rachel Allred’s first husband,
and Joseph Allred as her second husband. Larry W. Cates believes that Robert
Brown of Franklin County, Georgia, was the husband of Rachel Allred, daughter
of Thomas Allred. He also finds little doubt that the Rachael who married
Joseph Allred was the mother of all his children, because: (1) even his two
eldest children, John and Mary, named a daughter Rachel; (2) there is no
hiatus in the steady birth of children of Joseph Allred; and (3) the census
records are consistent with respect to the age of his wife. Cates concludes
that “the old orthodoxy about a double marriage” cannot be true. However,
none of his evidence is conclusive:
(1) Rachel, daughter of John Allred, born 25 July 1825, long after Joseph and
Rachel Allred were married, might have been named after her stepmother; and
Daniel Chisholm, husband of Mary (Polly) Allred, had a sister named Rachel.
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