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Charles Joshua “CJ & Charley” Allen

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Charles Joshua “CJ & Charley” Allen

Birth
Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, USA
Death
15 Aug 1937 (aged 84)
Wilson, Teton County, Wyoming, USA
Burial
Moran, Teton County, Wyoming, USA Add to Map
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Charles Joshua Allen was the fourth son and ninth child of Jude Allen, 1812-1900, and Mary Ann Nichols, 1820 - 1860. He was born 31 May 1853, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah. Charles Joshua, nicknamed CJ or Charley, moved with his father and stepmother Martha Anglesey to Calls Fort, Box Elder County, Utah, early in 1861. There he grew to young manhood, marrying Maria Houston Lish, 23 January 1872.

Charley and Maria answered a call to colonize northern Arizona in 1876, but upon arrival they found the area and conditions did not meet their needs. They returned to Utah. In 1880, Charley and his brothers Andrew and Joseph decided to go north to homestead in the grassland valley of Rock Creek, in Idaho. At a 4th of July family celebration in 1885, ten-year-old Charles Joshua Jr., Charley's namesake, and thirteen-year-old Andrew Jr., Charley's brother Andrew's namesake, drowned. The boys were buried in the Rockland Valley View Cemetery.

Charley and his family moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1896. Charley had finally found his "homeland." He ranched and outfitted for big game hunters. Maria established the Moran Post Office, ran their Elkhorn Hotel for the hunter- and growing tourist-trade, and served the valley as midwife.

In the early 1900s, Charley and Maria suffered the heartache of losing two more sons and a daughter. They chose to bury them on high benchland on the northeast corner of their property, overlooking their ranch, the Snake River and the Tetons. This private burial ground became known as the Allen Cemetery. Charley was buried there in 1937, and Maria in 1942.
Charles Joshua Allen was the fourth son and ninth child of Jude Allen, 1812-1900, and Mary Ann Nichols, 1820 - 1860. He was born 31 May 1853, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah. Charles Joshua, nicknamed CJ or Charley, moved with his father and stepmother Martha Anglesey to Calls Fort, Box Elder County, Utah, early in 1861. There he grew to young manhood, marrying Maria Houston Lish, 23 January 1872.

Charley and Maria answered a call to colonize northern Arizona in 1876, but upon arrival they found the area and conditions did not meet their needs. They returned to Utah. In 1880, Charley and his brothers Andrew and Joseph decided to go north to homestead in the grassland valley of Rock Creek, in Idaho. At a 4th of July family celebration in 1885, ten-year-old Charles Joshua Jr., Charley's namesake, and thirteen-year-old Andrew Jr., Charley's brother Andrew's namesake, drowned. The boys were buried in the Rockland Valley View Cemetery.

Charley and his family moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1896. Charley had finally found his "homeland." He ranched and outfitted for big game hunters. Maria established the Moran Post Office, ran their Elkhorn Hotel for the hunter- and growing tourist-trade, and served the valley as midwife.

In the early 1900s, Charley and Maria suffered the heartache of losing two more sons and a daughter. They chose to bury them on high benchland on the northeast corner of their property, overlooking their ranch, the Snake River and the Tetons. This private burial ground became known as the Allen Cemetery. Charley was buried there in 1937, and Maria in 1942.

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