David and Harriet Catherine (Brown) Allard were married on June 1st, 1842 in Potton, Brome Co., Quebec, Canada.
They had ten children.
The children of David and Harriet Allard.

*1. Harriett Catherine-She was born Oct. 26th, 1843 in Swanton, Franklin Co., VT. She married George R. Wall on July 15th, 1866. They had eight children. See the George R. Wall section. She died on Nov. 8th, 1915.

*2. Alonzo-He was born May 6th, 1845 in Bangor, Franklin Co, New York. He married Charlotte Spague on March 5th, 1866 in Grant, IA. (Charlotte was born on July 7th, 1850, to Daniel Sprague and Mary Byrd and died April 10th, 1936.) Alonzo died on Jan 1st, 1929 and both are buried at Villisca, Montgomery Co., IA. They had four children: Laura Rosalia, George Washington, Mary Elizabeth (Carl Clayton Farlow), and Marcella Marie (Robert L. McCormick). Laura Rosalia married her Uncle Edward's son, James David Allard (James is pictured in #4, Edward). Thank you, Neil Farlow, for that great history you had on the family and David Allard's land deed record in Kansas.

*3. George Washington-He was born Nov. 22nd, 1847 in Bangor, Franklin Co, New York. His first wife was Phoebe Ann West, married on Dec. 19th, 1866 in Atlantic, Cass Co., IA. Phoebe was born April 13th, 1852 in Hamilton Co., Indiana and died Oct. 31st, 1884. (Phoebe's parents were George West and Letha Ruth Bolt.) George Washington's second wife was Emma Elizabeth Reid, married on Dec. 24th, 1885 in Atlantic, Cass Co., IA. Emma was born on March 26th, 1862 Grant, IA and died June 6th, 1933 in Nebraska. Her parents were Allen W. and Hannah Reed. George Washington died on Sept. 22nd, 1909 in Crookston, Cherry Co, Nebraska. He is buried at Grant, Montgomery Co., IA with Phoebe. His second wife, Emma, is buried back in Crookston. His children with Phoebe were: Laura, Olive, Ida (Rudolph Eggiman), Florence (Gus Herman), Viola (Coleman Small), and Rosa. His children with Emma were: George, Maude (Amil Herman), John, Sylvia (William Tate), Alice, Carl, Grace (Lawrence C. Marshall), and Ira. Thank you, Jeannette (Allard) Fiskum, for your genealogy work and family pictures. It was exciting to meet all of your family. Also Jeannette, I love my "Allard" wood wagon wheels you gave me from the farm.

*4. Edward-He was born Feb. 11th, 1850 in Bangor, Franklin Co, New York. In early census records it is recorded that his name was David E. Also recorded as Edwin in some places, but on his marriage record, it states his name as Edward. He married Sarah Loft on Feb. 16th, 1871 in Grant, IA and died on Dec.17th, 1915 at McClelland, Pottawattamie Co. and was buried at Silver City, Mills Co., IA. (Sarah was the daughter of Leonard Loft, who was killed in the Civil War, and Rachel Hoff, who remarried James B. Wallace.) From Bill Pogue's notes, it tells us that Edward was a real cowboy in Wyoming and Montana, and also took care of fine horses for the Burgoin family of Silver City, IA. Edward and Sarah had four children: James David, Nellie, Cora (William Finney), and Alonzo. James David Allard married his cousin, Laura Rosalia Allard, daughter of Alonzo and Charlotte Allard, Edward's brother.
Thank you, Lynne (Zacek) Bassett, for the family history and telling us about Laura Rosalia Allard's award winning quilt. That was a very special lunch we had in Minneapolis.

*5. Mary Josephine-She was born Dec. 19th, 1851 in Bangor, Franklin Co, New York. She married Marshall Monroe Casey on Feb. 27th, 1867 in Maryville, Nodaway Co., Missouri and she died on May 25th, 1935 in Grant, Montgomery Co., IA. (Marshall was born on Aug. 26th, 1846 in Galion, Crawford Co., Ohio and died Jan. 26th, 1916 in Grant, IA.) They had three children: Edith Seville (John Hammack), Wilbur Henry, and Myrtle Viola. Myrtle married Leander Welch Pogue and had two sons: Lloyd Welch "Welch" Pogue and John Wilbur "Bill" Pogue. Both brothers and their families did extensive research into both of their family lines. Welch and his son, John, have published a genealogy and history of the Pogue dynasty, for which they have won many awards. They can also claim the 11th president of the United States, James Knox Polk, as one of their ancestors.
Many, many thanks to Bill and his wife, Ruth, for their work of collecting data and the great pictures of the families. This was done in the fifties. And, of course, a big thank you goes to John and his father, Welch, for sharing the collection and adding their history. Welch is 102 (2002) and invincible. He was born on Oct. 21st, 1899 and has lived in three Centuries. Welch and his wife, Mary Ellen, are both in sections of Who's Who in America.

*6. Viola DeLove-She was born July 17th, 1854 in Davenport, Scott Co, IA. She married George Warren DeVoss on July 17th, 1870 and died from complications of childbirth on Sept. 22nd, 1880 in Grant, Montgomery Co., IA and is buried there. (George DeVoss was born on Jan. 4th, 1846 and died on Aug. 11th, 1908 in Grant, IA.) They had two children: Carrie May (Charles Lee) and William E. (This child only lived a few months. William died two weeks after his mother, Viola). Thank you, Wylma (Lee) Bowlin, for the family pictures.

*7. Orlando-He was born May 6th, 1856 in Davenport, Scott Co, IA. He died before the 1856 Iowa State Census.

*8. John-He was born in October of 1859 in Davenport, Scott Co., IA. He is on the 1860 federal census for Iowa, but gone before the 1870 census.

*9. Rose Elizabeth-She was born Dec. 22nd, 1862 in Davenport, Scott Co., IA. She was married on Nov. 16th, 1881 in Adams Co., IA to Richard Henry Walford. (Richard was born Jan. 22nd, 1859 to Charles W. Walford and Martha A. Gregg, from Peoria Co., Illinois and died Jan. 23rd, 1947.) Rose died on Jan. 17th, 1905 in Bayard, Morrill Co., Nebraska and is buried at the city cemetery of Bayard with her husband. From Bill Pogue's notes about Rose's life, it tells us that she was truly a frontier prairie school teacher. She actually taught in a sod school house. "Mrs. Walford has been one of the county's successful teachers for years. She has gained the love of pupils and parents alike. She will be mourned by many school districts." They had two children: Roy Herbert and Mary Edith (Ralph Merton Marrs).

*10. William Henry-He was born Oct.18th, 1864 in Grant, Montgomery Co., IA. He married Lucy May Clark on Nov. 21st, 1886 in Grant, IA. (Lucy, born Jan. 1868, was the daughter of Andrew David and Harriett (Long) Clark. Lucy died on June 30th, 1924 in West Des Moines, Polk Co., IA and is buried at the Jordan Cemetery there.) William later married Lucy's sister, Margaret E. Focht, after the death of her husband and moved to Wyoming to live. William died on Jan. 23rd, 1944 in Sheridan, Wyoming and is buried at the city cemetery at Sheridan. From Bill Pogue's notes, it tells us that William was a groom of fine, imported Belgian draft horses for Hopley Farms in Lewis, Cass Co., IA. William worked for the railroad and also mined at Valley Junction (now West Des Moines, IA) and was a shepherd and farmed in Wyoming. William and Lucy had four children: Nellie (Hernandez), Lilly Belle (Nichols), Maude (Powers), and Minnie (Schmidt).
David Allard: A True Pioneer!
Who is David Allard? He was the third child of ten, and the first son of Henry and Betsey Allard. In relationship to Randy Wall, it's his Great Great Great Grandfather. This is our pioneer man. (See chart number # 22.)

David was born in Bartlett, New Hampshire on Sept. 4th, 1820. The family supported itself by farming. Around 1838, his parents and family moved to Lower Canada, Brome County, Quebec. Two more siblings were born there. This is also where David married his wife, Harriett Catherine Brown, on June 1st, 1842 in Potton, Brome County, Quebec, Canada.
By the 1850 census, David and his wife Harriett, along with David's parents, were all living in Bangor Township, Franklin County, New York. What I have found out through research is that David and his parents were always together, traveling wise and also living side by side. BUT David was not content.
In June of 1852, David and his family moved to Davenport, Scott County, Iowa. It is unclear when David's parents arrived, but by the 1856 census for Scott County, they were there. It was an exciting time to be part of the west and David didn't want to miss out. He loved adventure and all the new discoveries.
The families lived in harmony for many years in the Scott County area of Iowa. BUT David wanted to travel on. He got those itchy feet blues. So in June, 1863 he moved his whole family to Montgomery County, Iowa. This area is south of Des Moines. They settled in the town of Milford and opened a mercantile store. When Milford applied for a post office, there was already a Milford in Iowa. So they had to come up with a new name for the town-Grant-after the president. Perfect.
So Grant, Iowa, in Montgomery County was the final home of David Allard. Or was it? Read on!
Grant, Iowa is where the children of David and Harriett grew up, married, and lived out most of their lives. (See the section of children of David and Harriett Allard.)
The Allard store on Main Street in Grant was a throbbing center for the town. I found a story in the local newspaper about checkers games and tournaments going on in the store. And you were never to bother David with any business when he was playing checkers. He would tell a customer to "get it yourself. I'M BUSY, or can't you see it over there? Go get it."
The children loved his stories of survival when he was a trapper. I'm sure he could tell a tale. BUT they were the truth. He lived a life of trapping and lumbering in the northeast. He could survive in the mountains and was a hunter of all sorts. He liked the outdoors and loved the roughness.
In February of 1875, the firm, David Allard and son, sold their store and property in town to a private individual to
develop a hotel in Milford/Grant. A newspaper story reported that David was considering going to the Pacific states for fur trapping.


David did go out west. How far? We don't know. He did go on the Oregon Trail sometime after 1875. I found his name carved in the sandstone rocks of Guernsey, Wyoming where the pioneers left their names. This information was left for us by his wife, who had this written down in her letters, that David carved his name on the Oregon Trail. The Mormon Trail went just a few miles north from his home in Grant, Iowa. David must have hopped on the wagon and took off and got as far as Guernsey, WY, for sure. This is where the Oregon Trail and Mormon Trail divide.
Did David go on? I don't know. He could have gone all the way to Oregon or to California. (Remember the gold rush was on.) There is no record that can tell us the answer. (What are the Oregon and Mormon Trails? They were paths/trails across the plains and up to the northwest territories of the United States. Mostly traveled by covered wagons to the "new lands." The ruts of the wagon wheels are still in the roads today. There are many books and even videos about the trails out there.)
Somehow David ended up in Kansas. In 1880, he bought land in the Cherokee Strip area and was starting up a ranch in Caldwell, Sumner County, Kansas. The original deed for this land is in the possession of Neil H. Farlow of Sonora, CA, a descendant of David's. It amazes me where we can find family history information. (The Cherokee Strip was the richest Indian grazing land that was part of the Oklahoma with Kansas border. There is a little dispute about the exact boundaries of the strip. It depends on what surveyor records you read. The government opened this land up for settlers in 1889. You can read more about this area in many resources, or rent one of the movies about it.)
So David started up his ranch and farm business in Caldwell with a hired hand, Lewis Vanskite. (He received some of the holdings and cattle after David died.) In August of 1881, David told of riding the plains of Kansas. He must have been looking at land or on his way to see relatives or friends, who knows. We do know that in the County of Chautauqua, which is about 100 miles due east of his farm in Caldwell, Kansas, David died. I don't know if he had a wagon or just rode on a horse. He stopped at a house outside of Sedan, Kansas in the little town of Metz at the family home of Albert Lemmons on Aug. 6th, 1881, and died. Now, did he get a chance to speak to them? Maybe, or he must have had some kind of identification on him, because two of his sons, Alonzo and George Washington Allard, came down there three weeks later. (This was reported in the local newspapers.) So somehow they knew who died on their door step and whom to contact. They could have also contacted his ranch hand and he sent word back to Iowa that David had died.
I feel that David is buried in the cemetery next to the Lemmons' home. There is, of course, no stone or record that we could find today. They did not move a body very far back in those hot days in August. And they wanted to bury him fast because he could have died from many different things. (In those days people had to worry about many different forms of diseases and contamination.) Just before David was buried, a sheriff searched the body and found $95 in folding money. (That was cash-no Visa back then. That would be about $2,500 today, 2002.) This money was turned in to a judge for the probate court proceeding back in Sumner County. David must have been going on an extended trip. Maybe home to Iowa. No one knows today.
So David's last ride was through the outback of Kansas. I hope he had the wind at his back and bottle of whiskey in his saddle bags. Folks, this was our adventure ancestor. He rode the trails and was part of American Wild West history. Maybe he found gold in California. He probably shot at Indians and maybe killed a buffalo. He did farming, fur trading, lumbering, mining, and ran a store. (And hated it...that's why he went back to a ranch and the "home on the range" type of life.) He was born under a wandering star. AND he followed his dreams. Do we?