George S Stringfellow was born on 26 April 1860, in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. He married Elnora Angeline Day on 10 October 1882, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He registered for military service in 1895. He died on 2 October 1900, in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Draper City Cemetery, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English: occupational name from Middle English string-felagh ‘string-fellow, man who works at a string-hearth’. This was the hearth or furnace at which iron was heated for its second working. A 1547 document from south Yorkshire defines the string-fellow's duties: ‘the stringefelloe wages, for layeinge the stone and breakeinge and feyinge of synders and breakeinge of the blowme and hewinge’. Thornhill and Ecclesfield were two of several iron-working districts in Yorkshire. See also Stringer .
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