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HONORABLE WILLIAM P. ALLRED
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable William P. Allred, of Wayne county, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following report:
William P. Allred, who represented Wayne county in the Thirty-second, Thirty-second Extra and the Thirty-third General Assemblies, was born in Randolph county, North Carolina, on April 26, 1848, and passed away at his home in Corydon, Iowa, March 4, 1939, at the age of ninety-two years, ten months and eight days.
He came to Iowa with his parents in 1854 and settled in Monroe township in Wayne county where he grew to manhood. When he was eighteen years old he enlisted in Company H of the 46th Iowa Volunteers Infantry and was discharged in a hospital in Keokuk in September, 1864.
He was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic and his passing removed the last member of Robert Jackson Post No. 192. At the last National G. A. R. Encampment at Des Moines, Iowa, he was elected president of the National Association of Civil War and Sons of Union Veterans Musicians.
He was an active member of the Methodist Church, the Masonic Lodge and the Republican party and maintained an active and helpful interest in all of these organizations up to the time of his death. Last year, at the age of 92, he led the Robert Jackson Post Drum Corps on a tour of Appanoose, Decatur, and Wayne counties with caravans supporting the Republican candidates for office.
He was for approximately twenty years chairman of the Soldiers Relief Commission of Wayne county, Iowa, rendering intelligent and patriotic service to the widows and orphans of soldiers who were in need.
Although he lived well over his allotted time his unselfish service to the nation, state and community in which he lived will be sadly missed, and as an expression of our appreciation of the character of this outstanding American:
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-eighth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable William P. Allred, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, and the House would tender by this resolution its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow, and
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
C. L. CLARK,
LEO A. HOEGH,
X. T. PRENTIS,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 12, 1939.