ESLTRS-1871-08-07-From,SnowErastus,UtahSaltLakeCity-To,AshbyElizabethRebecca(Snow),UtahStGeorge

ESLTRS-1871-08-07-From,SnowErastus,UtahSaltLakeCity-To,AshbyElizabethRebecca(Snow),UtahStGeorge

Salt Lake City   Aug 7th/71 [Monday 7 Aug 1871]

Mrs. Elisabeth R. Snow [Elizabeth Rebecca Ashby Snow]


My kind and Dearly beloved wife

The Sudden and unexpected Demise of Our Beloved Brother Briant Stringham [Bryant Stringham] was like a clapp [clap] of Thunder upon us all.  He went to the Pasture to attend to business on the morning of the 26th ult [ultimate – Wednesday 26 Jul 1871] and before night sent for Susan to come down and take care of him.  At first it was thought to be only a violent cold coming alternate chills and fever combined that ordinery [ordinary] treatment would soon remove.  Dr [Doctor] Murphy attended him, the elders administered  His mother and all his wives visited him and in turn waited upon him.  On my return from Ogden Bro. George Q. Cannon & myself went down to see him.  On Thursday [27 Jul 1871] found Susan, Martha & Harriet and the Doctor all there and seemed very sick and nervous yet all said he was better and after administering to him Twice and remaining a couple of house [hours] we left him feeling better and all thinking he would recover and Martha came home with me.  But during the night he grew worse and Died at five the following morning [Friday 28 Jul 1871] and turned black within an hour or two after.  Twas [It was] evedently [evidently] Congestive chills that caused his death.  He was packed in Ice and early Saturday morning [29 Jul 1871] was brought to town on a Rail Car and funeral services in the 13th Ward Assembly rooms was held at 10 A.M. attended by The Presidency and a full house and among the mourners were his Father & Mother, 3 Brothers Jerry, George, & Benjamin, all his wives & children and your Brothers Benjamin, Richard and William with their families, The remains were followed to the Cemetary [cemetery] by 25 Carriages.  Minerva and I staid [stayed] that night with Harriet who is encient [?] and was well nigh exhausted with waiting upon Briant [Bryant] and the violent shock.  Yesterday [Sunday 6 Aug 1871] we visited Mother Stringham.  They all now seem recovering a little from the shock.  Yesterday [Sunday 6 Aug 1871] I attended the funeral of Anne McIntye.  I visited and talked with her two hours before her death.  She longed to go, saw & talked with her Bro. Joseph that day.  I have Just learned that John Larson Died