Pioneer Leader Buried Tuesday At Maeser. Funeral for Philip Stringham Largely Attended at Maeser.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Maeser Chapel for Philip Stringham, 84, prominent Ashley Valley stockman and LDS church worker who died of a heart attack Saturday. The services were conducted by Bishop Lester Bingham. The opening prayer was by Roland Stringham, nephew and the benediction by George Stringham, brother of the departed.

A quartet sang the selection "Oh My Father" as the opening number, "Jesus Lover Of My Soul." was sung by as a duet by Harold and J. Clive Davis. Speakers were President Archie Johnson, R. S. Collett and Don B. Colton with closing remarks by Bishop Bingham.

A vocal solo, "Join Home," was rendered by Mrs. Lucille Calder, a granddaughter and the quartet included Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Jorgensen, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Thacker, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Hacking and Mrs. Beulah McConkie.

Interment was in the Maeser Cemetery where the grave was dedicated by Henry Stringham, a brother of Salt Lake. Pallbearers were grandsons, Irving Ray and Kenneth Stringham, Don and Rulon Hacking, Philip Hall and Howard Collett. Honorary pallbearers were Paul, Ned, J. Thoral, Ralph and Mark Stringham, Phillip, Reid, Jay, Don, Garth, David, Lynn and Acel Hall, Carl Collett, J. Ferron, Leo Junius and Grant Hacking and Glen Calder.

Mr. Stringham, brother-in-law of President Heber J. Grant, one of first settlers and oldest residents of Ashley Valley was born July 14, 1856 in Salt Lake City in the old Thirteenth Ward. He was the son of Briant Stringham and Susan Ashby Stringham. His father was a member of President Brigham Young's first pioneer company of 1847.

Mr. Stringham spent his youth in Salt Lake and was married there to Caroline A. Crouch February 12, 1873. Soon after his marriage he moved to Prattsville, later Orderville, Sevier County, where he lived for about a year and then returned to Salt Lake.

In 1878 in company with others he moved to Ashley Valley with his young family. He took up a homestead in the northwest part of the valley and that homestead has been the family home since. He was a partner with Robert Bodily, Richard Blakely and William Shaffer in taking the first water out of Ashley Creek for irrigation.

He has been a prominent church and civic worker throughout his life. He held the offices of county clerk and treasurer before the turn of the century. He was the first superintendent of Sunday Schools in Maeser Ward and later first superintendent of the Young Men's MIA. He was a high priest in the Maeser Ward.

His first wife died December 18, 1905. On December 22, 1907 he married Mary Bingham Hall who passed away July 20, 1936. The latter part of his life has been spent doing temple work, principally in the St. George Temple.

-Vernal Express, August 29, 1940, transcribed by Rhonda Holton, email: [email protected]