OBITUARY: George Stringham; Holden, Millard co., Utah
surname: Stringham

Transcribed by Stephen D. Robison (kinseeker @ hotmail.com)
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The Deseret News, Vol. XXV, No. 12, Wednesday, 19 Apr 1876:

                                                                      
       Died:

     In Holden, Millard County, April 5th, 1876, at 25 minutes
past 11 a.m., GEORGE STRINGHAM, aged 86 years and 20 days, of old age.


    Deceased was born at Newhemstead, Queens Co., Long Island, N.Y., March
16th 1790; baptized Feb. 16th, 1833, at Westfield, N.Y., by Reynolds Cahoon;
emigrated to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1835; started for Missouri in the Kirtland
camp; traveled to Springfield, Ill., where he remained until the settlement
of the Saints in Nauvoo; after their expulsion from Missouri, he then moved
to Nauvoo; thence to Council Bluffs in 1846; to Utah in 1848; resided in
Salt Lake City until 1872, when he moved to Holden, Millard Co., where
he remained until he died; was the father of six children, five of whok
are living, and left fifty-seven grand children living and nine great grand
children; was a high priest; remained firm in the faith of the gospel and
was able to walk around up to within two days of his death.--[Com.