Stringham origins from French Huguenots

I always had assumed that the Stringhams were of English descent because we trace the Stringham line to a birth in England.  But the name comes from France, and the Tringhams were Huguenots.  More information can be found in this short history:

http://www.surnames.com/documented_websites/Yvonne/stringham_history.htm


I nearly identical history can be found on this website:

http://www.myplanet.net/cstringham/stringhamindex.html

Because the cursive is harder to read, I typed up the "Stringham Family Overview (1572-present)", which reads as follows:

History of John and Rheumina Wilson Earl

Prepared by their Grandson Frank J. Earl in 1975.

John Earl, son of William, who was the son of Henry Earl, was born Sept. 8, 1827 in Scarborough, York County, Ontario, Upper Canada, near present Toronto, Canada. Rheumina Wilson, John’s wife to be, was born in Perryville, Green Township, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1829. Your writer has no further information of her until after her marriage to John Earl.

John Earl died July 13, 1908 in Fileding, Utah and was buried in Farmington Cemebery, Davis County, Utah. Rheumina Wilson Earl died Dec. 16, 1904 in Farmington and was buried beside her husband.

Wiliam and Sarah Syphers Earl, John’s parents, joined the Church in Scarborough, Canada in 1836 and shortly thereafter they moved to Kirland, Ohio. In 1836 John was nine years old. July 6, 1838 John’s parents and their nine children left Kirtland, Ohio as a part of the Kirtland Camp. There were 529 members of this group. After a very strenuous journey of 870 miles the group arrived in Far West, Missouri Oct. 2, 1838. Two days later they were in Adam-ondi-Ahmen where the family may have lived for some time.

Spackman Heirlooms

We recently visited Grandma Spackman and asked to take some pictures of family heirlooms.  Here are a few treasures to look for next time you visit.

This glass chicken belonged to Elva Morgan Rindlisbacher (Grandma’s mother).  She had picked it out for the children and placed some Easter eggs in it to give to them on Easter.  The children found it and decided that it would be a perfect gift for their mother, and so it was hers instead.

This was Elva Rindlisbacher’s butter churner.

This is Grandmother Morgan’s (Elizabeth Bawden Morgan’s) bread mixing bowl, with an enamel bowl that Grandma Spackman put inside.

This is the sewing machine that Grandma Spackman learned to sew on.  It does a straight stitch, not a back stitch or anything like that.  It belonged to Elva Rindlisbacher.

The high chair that the Spackman children ate on, including the metal tray that Grandma recently found.

...and a silver spoon she used to feed them.  She recently found this spoon in the dirt behind the old farm, evidence left behind by would-be archeologists. 

Here is Grandma's glass case, full of little treasures picked up during the years, especially showcasing Grandma's bell collection.

Bell detail...

Little humorous play-on-words objects like this can be found throughout the house.

Here are a couple of items to remember Grandpa by.

Briant Stringham

This picture was recently discovered by Steven C. Nelson.  For years it was believed that there were no known photographs of him, so this is a real treasure.  The following note was shared with me from Aunt Donnette about the discovery:

Joseph Warren Hancock, Sr.

This oral history was posted on a personal Web page for which a relative posted a link on the Wall of this group, but it is now a dead link. However, while the Web page was still up, she copied what follows:

Joseph Warren Hancock, Sr.: A short history by his grandson Lewis Alma Hancock

To Alvah Hancock and Juletta Eames on 12 October 1832 was born a son they named Joseph Warren. Not much of his life is known as far as I know but from meager stories. It seems that his folks went to missouri with the Saints to Nauvoo. He was baptized April 1840. The family owned a lot in Nauvoo.

John Scott

Information drawn from http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11241017
A native of Armagh, Ulster, Ireland, John was the son of Jacob and Sarah Warnock Scott. At the age of eight, he immigrated to Trafalgar, Canada with his parents. On April 15, 1836, he married Elizabeth Menerey. Elizabeth was born September 10, 1815 in Dublin, Ireland. After their marriage they were converted to the LDS Church; John, his wife, and all of his father's family were baptized into the Mormon religion.

The following year, they moved to Far West, Missouri and two years later to Nauvoo, Illinois, passing through great hardships and persecutions with the Saints at that time. John accepted the principle of plural marriage and took for his wives Mary Pugh on February 3, 1845, and Sarah Ann Willis on March 24, 1846.

John was chosen as one of the bodyguards to the Prophet Joseph Smith and held the position of Colonel in the First Regiment of the Nauvoo Legion. He and all three of his wives were in attendance at the meeting held after the martyrdom when the mantle of the prophet fell upon Brigham Young. They bore testimony of this many times to their family. They traveled to Winter Quarters and came west the following year, settling in Millcreek, Utah. John served a mission to England; and after his return he married his fourth wife, Esther Yeates, on February 11, 1860, later marrying Angeline Roxy Keller April 11, 1868.

John moved Esther and Angeline to Millville in 1868; and he resided there until 1876 when he returned to Millcreek. In December 1876, while visiting his family in Millville, he died of pneumonia. He is buried in the old Salt Lake City Cemetery. His wives were all honorable women who lived lives of good Latter-day Saints and set good examples for all to follow.

Elizabeth Meneray, Mary Pugh and Sarah Ann Willis are all buried at the old Salt Lake City Cemetery. Esther Yeates is buried in Millville. Angeline remarried and relocated to Union County, Oregon. Her burial information is unknown.

Birth: May 6, 1811, Ireland
Death: Dec. 16, 1876
Millville
Cache County
Utah, USA

Redick Newton Allred

Redick Newton Allred, son of Isaac and Mary Calvert, was born February 21^st, 1822 in Farmington, Marshall County, Tennessee. Redick’s father, Isaac, was born in Pendalton County, South Carolina on January 27, 1788. Grandfather William and his grandmother, Elizabeth Thresher had moved from Randolph County, North Carolina, to Pendalton County, South Carolina, some time between 1784 and 1788, as their oldest son James was born in Randolph County in North Carolina in 1784, while their second son, Isaac, was born in South Carolina in 1788.