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John Redington (1836-1915) was born in Narzin, Essex, England on 23 October 1835, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Redington. He was baptized a member of the LDS Church on October 20, 1850, and was confirmed 27 October 1850 at North Mimns, a parish located about eighteen miles from London. Nine years later, he became a traveling elder for the LDS Church in England. In the meantime, in 1861, Redington married Marion Brown at Claines Church in Worcester, England. Later, they were sealed to each other in 1868, by George Q. Cannon in Salt Lake City, Utah. Redington's mission came to a close in the spring of 1863. He and his wife were them given the opportunity of migrating to Utah, which they chose to do. On 28 May 1863, they arrived by ship in New York, and immediately embarked for Florence Nebraska, where they and seven hundred other Mormon emigrants joined companies sent from Utah to meet them. They arrived in Salt Lake on 29 August 1863. The family stayed in Salt Lake until 1866, when they moved to Payson. They stayed there until 1879, when they moved to Dover in Sanpete County. They had six children, three of whom lived. He was called to the mission field again, by Wilford Woodruff, and served in England from 1895-1897. After he returned, he and his family moved to Oxford Idaho, where he stayed until his death on 11 March 1915.