Elizabeth Warren Allred: Founding Member of the Relief Society and Pioneer of 1851

Elizabeth Warren married James Allred Sr., and together with him joined the Church around 1832. When the Relief Society was organized by the Prophet Joseph Smith in Nauvoo on March 17, 1842, Elizabeth Allred was among its very first members—one of the original women who, under Joseph's instruction, gathered to relieve the poor, strengthen the Saints, and build the kingdom. She endured the Missouri persecutions and the Nauvoo exodus, and then crossed the plains as a 'Pioneer of 1851,' settling in Sanpete County, Utah, where the Allred family helped found Spring City. The Church Historian's Press has preserved her among the earliest Relief Society women. Her life—among the first to join the Relief Society Joseph Smith organized, and a pioneer who walked west—is a witness of the devotion of the founding Latter-day Saint women.