Deseret News prints Samuel Alger's obituary.
Samuel Alger Sr., Obituary, in The Deseret News 7, no. 268 (October 14, 1874): 7
Father Alger was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, 14th of February, 1786; embraced the Gospel in Mayfield, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in November, 1830. . . .
. . . .in September, 1836, started for Missouri, stopping in Wayne County, Indiana, in consequence of bad roads; started again the following September and reached Randolph County, Missouri, where he resided a little more than a year, until the Saints were driven from that State. . . .
Father Alger throughout his life was a useful man and for the last forty-four years a faithful Latter-day Saint.