Isaac Alldredge

1843 – 1936

Isaac Alldredge was born in Jackson County, Illinois on July 25, 1843.  He married Susanna Evans on December 27, 1869, in the old Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah.  There were 10 children born to them, all in Utah.

Isaac Alldredge went to Mexico in 1902, from Ferron, Emery County, Utah with his wife and three children, Nettie, Leo, and Jacosa. Two other families from Utah accompanied the Alldredges at that time, those of William Wanlass and William Winn.  They went first to the Colony of Dublan, then to the new settlement of Morelos in Sonora.  There they farmed and helped with building dams and ditches.  They stayed two years before going to Nacozari to work on the railroad.

They returned and purchased a farm in San Jose, 10 miles from Morelos.  Again they helped with the pioneering tasks of clearing the ground, building dams, irrigation ditches, church and school houses.  Isaac had three children marry in Mexico:  Nettie married John Keate at Morelos; Leo married Ida Romney in Colonia Juarez; and Jacosa was married to Alva B. Langford at San Jose.

Isaac lived a long, full life in the interest of his family, church, and community.  After leaving Mexico, at the time of the Revolution, he settled in Mesa, Arizona.  While there he ran a popcorn stand.  Many of his friends long remember him as the “popcorn man.”

Susannah passed away on July 23, 1932 in Mesa.  Isaac died four years later, September 24, 1936, also in Mesa, at the age of 93.

Nelle Spilsbury Hatch and B. Carmon Hardy

Stalwarts South of the Border, page 12

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