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Show Veteran of Handcart Company Is Honored at North Ogden NORTH OGDEN. Utah. April 17-The 17-The most impressive social event ot the season was that held Wednesday aliernoon at the palatial home ot Mr and Mrs. Scott W. Campbell on East Main street in honor of the HOth birth -da of Mrs. Alice Strong ' veteran of the iniued belated hand c;irt company of 1856. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs Harold 8. Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde S. Campbell of North Ogden; Mrs. Sarah Swift of S;ilt Lake City; Mrs. John Walsh of Farmington, whose husband Is now laboring in the California mission and at whose in-stance in-stance 8 most beautiful box of flow-erR flow-erR were sent as a token of respect from his first field of labor in that mission; Emma D. Strong of Kays-Ville, Kays-Ville, who has one son, Leon, serving as secretary of the Northern States mission, w-lih headquarters at Chicago Chica-go and another son, Harry, in army service, in France; Mrs. Hyrum Strong hIso of fCaysyllle, The tliuo was mom pleasantly spent In general social con-veroo con-veroo and the partaking of refresh - mentfi Mrs. Strong is a daughter of Edmund Burry and .lane Flsb, born at Darwin, Dar-win, England, April If, was baptized bap-tized in 1845 by Elder Sherwood into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Lat-ter Day Saints. She was married in the parish church of her native town July 15, 1S50 to William Falch, and bore him three children, Robert, John and Sarah, and sailed for America with her husband and three children May i 25, 1856, from Liverpool, in the ship j "Horizon,"' in a company of 856 souls I under the direction of Edward Martin, Mar-tin, and landed at Boston after a voy age of six weeks and in due time arrived ar-rived at Winter Quarters, where an- other six weeks was taken in making . hand carts for the trip across the I plains and left July 15 In company of 120 hand carts and six wagons and 'got into the mountnlns just In time 1 to encounter the most severe experience exper-ience that ever befell any company of emigrants. Her husband and first born and a large number of others I succumbed to the ordeal. The food supply became practically exhausted, i' eii for the oxon gave out, numbers of them dying from actual starvation in the depths of the snow and intense I cold. To save the lives of her two remaining children, she had to sit and hug them to her lap until her feet I were frozen, and when her shoes were I removed the skin came with them. Finally she reached Salt Lake City Nov. 3t, 1856, among strangers with I her lit 1 1 o children depending upon j her, and March 5 of the next year was married to Jacob Strong and bore him three children, Mrs. Lucinda Campbell I of North ogden. Wm. J. Strong, now ! deceased, and Alma Ether, residing in (Salt Lake City j Through all of these trying experiences exper-iences she has maintained her devo- I tion to the faith she had espoused nearly three-quarters of a century, and is today in fair health at her advanced I age. |