Allen WEEKS

• General Notes
  • Burial:  Date: Sep 1884 Place: Cedar Fort Cemetery, Utah, Utah  Individual Note: TAXATION: Platt, Lyman. Nauvoo, Illinois Tax Index, 1842, listing of taxpayers from Hancock County, Illinois in 1842. Rodeback, James, p. 218, Cord.: 6N8W.  CENSUS: 1850 ,Pottawattamie,Iowa, p.110. 1860, Fort Cedar,Cedar,Utah, p.437. 1880 Cedar Fort,Utah,Utah.   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint; Seventies Quorum Record, 1844-1975: Nauvoo, Illinois; Allen Weeks - 4th Son of Benjamin, and Hannah Weeks, born Jan 24th 1813, in North Carolina, Rutherford County. Benjamin Weeks was the Son of Benjamin and Sarah Weeks, My Mother was the daughter of Druory Allen, and Leurany Allen, the place and state of their Birth I do not Know. My parents emigrated from North Carolina, to the State of Alabama, Morgan County, about the Year 1815, or 16, in which they resided 13 years, and in 1829, they emigrated to the State of Illinois Shelby County, and in the Year 1839, their came a man of the name of Dominicas Carter, a minister of the everlasting gospel, and I beleived the doctrine, and was baptized and confirmed into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints on the 4th day of May 1839, and in 1840 I emigrated to Nauvoo, or "City of Joseph" and at the October Conference in the same year I was ordained to the office of an Elder, under the hands of Charles C. Rich the other I know not and in 1842, I wrought the "Summer" and "Fall" on the Temple of the Lord which the "Prophet Joseph" said would be the same as if I had gone on a mission to preach the gospel and in 1844 I was taken from the Elders quorum into the 9th quorum of Seventies at the October Conference and in 1845 I was taken from the 9th quorum, and ordained under the hands of President Joseph Young and Levi Hancock as an assistant councillor to the President of the 27th quorum of Seventies.  LETTER: Brigham Young to Allen Weeks: G. S. L. City Aug 11 1854, Bishop Allen Weeks - Dear Brother, It is with exceeding painful feelings that I learn of the loss of your two sons by the Indians. I recommend that you keep friendly with them and get the other Indians who probably know nothing of this affair to seek them out and bring in the guilty ones and deliver them up to be tried. It is presumed that those who committed this deed, are some who would not come in and be friendly. The deed is done and now cannot be helped only to serve as warning to others. Let all the brethren be friendly to the Indians, have no feelings against the friendly ones and they will probably deliver up the guilty ones. Deeply sympathizing with you in your affliction. I Remain, Your Brother in the Gospel. Brigham Young
    
    Title: Journal and papers of Allen Weeks, 1813-1884 Author: Allen Weeks Publication: un-published
    Page: The Territorial Enquirer, p.11  Text: Another Veteran Gone; Bishop Eli Bennett of Cedar Valley sends in the following: Brother Allen Weeks passed peacefully away from this earthly state of action on Wednesday morning last at 7 o'clock. He was the son of Benjamin and Hannah Weeks, was born in North Carolina January 24, 1813. He received the gospel in 1838. Passed through the persecutions with the Saints at Nauvoo, and emigrated to Utah and was captain of fifty when crossing the plains. He was ordained Bishop of Cedar Valley in 1853. He proved a father of the people and was loved by all, until his health and eyes so failed him that he was honorably released. It will be remembered that his two sons William and Warren, age 16 and 18 years, were murdered by the Indians, while in the canyon after wood. When the father found them brutally cut to pieces scalped and limbed, in this great affliction he only sought the Lord for comfort. He was the father of fourteen children of whom he has left but three. Though he has been an invalid for many years and deprived of his eyesight he has proven staunch and true to the principles of the gospel. He has left three well respected children . . . . Date: 26 Sep 1884