The Strongs of Strongsville
DESCENDANTS OF
John Stou,ghton Strong .,, - - and Eliphalet Strong
Supplementary to the History of the Strong Family, by Benjamin W. Dwight
By Albert Strong
Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1931
JOHN STOUGHTON STRONG Died February 23, 1863, aged 91 years.
FOREWORD. The Strongs generally hold to the sensible American opinion that while family descent is of itself no reason for personal conceit, yet a worthy ancestry is to be prized as an example and incentive. Interest in genealogy is rapidly increasing, and it was chiefly the thought that so many facts and dates, readily available now, would be utterly lost a generation hence, that led to this attempt to bridge for future searchers of our branch of the family the sixty-year gulf between the completion of Dwight's History in 1870 and the present. Family research, even on a limited scale, cannot succeed without assistance and encouragement, credit for which is particularly due in this case to Sy EXPLANATION An Arabic numeral at the left of a birth record indicates the mun her of the paragraph in which the subject's history is continued. Thus, "12. vi. William, b. June 5, 1869," means that William is the sixth child of his parents and that his further record will be found in No. 12 of the consecutively numbered paragraphs of his family branch. Also any name in the book may be found by referring to the Index of Persons. [5] ANCESTRY OF ELIPHALET AND JOHN STOUGHTON STRONG ( See Appendix) RICHARDS, Alice I-Alice Bradford BF~-"LDFORD, Maj. Wm. -Ahiei Adams ST ACY, Elizabeth -cau I-William Adams ... ADAMS, William ~ ~.... SMITH, Anna -§i ;.::i I-Hannah _Kenrick 11) KENRICK, John Q FAIRBANKS, Mary ~Joseph Metcalf 1-Jonathan Metcalf ~ METCALF, Michael ~ ~ ..c: ~l"~-·J...J.CJ.I..J t'\171-,;+,,?\\ ,-,- .U~LV• f His BIRTHPLACE According to the family tradition, he was born and lived at Taun ton, in Somersetshire, but no record or other evidence of his birth or residence there has ever been found. About twelve miles, as the crow flies, from Taunton, lies the village of Chard, in the parish of the same name. The will of William Deane, of Southchard, in Chard parish, ( 1634, Prerogative Court of Canter bury, Seagar 86) mentions his daughter, Margerie Strong, and "her sonne and my grandchild, John Strong," also sons John and Walter Deane. Turning to American records, we find that Elder John's eldest son was named John, that among eight new residents of Taunton, Mass.~ '¥ho arrived there in December 1638, were John Strong and Walter and John Deane and that Walter Deane in confirming in 1691 a deed from John Strong, of Northampton, deposed that he acted under a power of attorney from "my brother, John Strong, Sr." Comparing these records, there seems to be no room left for doubt that the Strong who married Margerie Deane, of South Chard, by whom he had a son, John, Jr., was identical with Elder John Strong, [7] of Northampton. Thus the only clue that we have to his English residence points to South Chard. Since Taunton was the county seat of Somersetshire, situated near Chard and the only important town in the vicinity, it must have been a prominent place in the eyes of young John Strong; the occasional visits which he doubtless made there would be long remembered, and after coming to America he would mention it frequently to his children and acquaintances, thus, perhaps, giving the impression that it was his English home. Or his descendants may have confused Taunton, England, with Taunton, Mass., where we know that he did live for seven years. His ANCESTRY The parish records of Chard, now extant, date no farther back than about the middle of the seventeenth century, fifty years too late for our purpose. The Bishop of Wells Transcripts of the earlier Chard recor1s throw a little light on the period in which we are interested, but are scanty and unsatisfactory, although one or two of them are very important to us, as will he seen. About ten years ago the writer found in some English work on gen ealogy or local history, a reference to one George Strong, of Chard, who was mentioned as a manufacturer of serge there in the VIII. Queen Elizabeth (1566-7). He had sons Thomas and Walter. The reference to this item has been lost, but confirmation came in an out line of the will of this George Strong (Prerogative Court of Canter bury, 1636, Pile 15, N~26~627Jwhich was kindly furnished by Mrs. Louie Dean White, of Brookline, Mass. In this will he mentions, besides sons Thomas and Walter, "my grandchild John Strong." The will was proved February 16, 1636, indicating that George Strong died about 1635, at which date he must have been very old, seeing that the mention made of him as a serge manufacturer implies that he was a mature man in 1566-7. Who was the father of "grandchild John Strong"? He seems to have died before his father George made his will in 1627, for of the five grandchildren mentioned therein, three-Marie, Elizabeth and Joan-are named as daughters of Walter, and the remaining two, John and William, were evidently orphans, since they are not among the children of Thomas, the births of which are recorded in the parish register of Chardstock. Here the Bishop's Transcripts come to the rescue by furnishing the record of the burial of a John Strong of Chard on July 14, 1613. We now have ground for the theory that this John Strong was the son of George Strong and the father of our "Elder John." Research in England, under the direction of Col. [8] Charles E. Banks, the well-known genealogist, brought to light an undated will of John Strong of Chard (Wells, Bishop's Court, at Exeter), evidently made on his death-bed, in which he mentions his son John, an unborn child, his father George and his brothers Thomas and Walter. Comparing these facts and dates with statements made in the "History of the Strong Family" by Gov. Caleb Strong and the author Dwight, that Elder John was a native of Somersetshire, that his father died in 1613 when his son was young and that his grand father lived to a great age but died before his grandson left England, we have circumstantial proof that the line was: George (1), John (2), Elder John ( 3) . So far the English records confirm the American tradition remark ably well. But Gov. Caleb Strong states in his "Account" of 1777 that the name of Elder John's father was Richard. Possibly the name of his native place, as shown in some ancient writing, was mistaken for his father's name. Observe the final syllable of the name Richard "chard." This, with some abbreviated character before it to indicate "South," perhaps blurred or illegibly written, might have been mis taken for "Richard," and "John Strong of S :chard" read as "John Strong of Richard." John Strong Sr.'s hurried will does not mention the name of his wife, and their marriage record (Bishop's Transcripts) is defective. It shows only the year 1609 and the name John Strong, the wife's name being torn from the parchment. It is very disappointing that two sources, from either one of which we might have expected to learn the name of Elder John Strong's mother, have failed us. It has been suggested, with some probability, that it was Eleanor; first, because some think that she was Eleanor Deane, sister of William, the testator of 1634; second, because family tradition ascribes to her a daughter Eleanor who would have been her first girl child. Here comes in the question of the child whose expected birth was referred to in John Strong Sr.'s will. This may have been William, the other orphaned grandson mentioned in the will of George Strong, hut it seems more probable that this William was son of a William Strong who lived at Yeovil, some fifteen miles from Chard. His will of 1613, proved the same year, mentions his wife Margatt (Margaret) and son William. The death of a widow Margaret Strong in 1623 is recorded at Chard stock, the original home, as it is believed, of George Strong and his sons. With the parentage of William otherwise accounted for, nothing stands in the way of the supposition, in line with the family tradition, that the posthumous child of John Strong, Sr., was a daughter. It was [9] stated by Gov. Caleb Strong that a sister of Elder John came with him from England and married "a person by the name of Dean." It was the generally accepted opinion for many years that this sister had been identified in the person of Eleanor, wife of Walter Deane, of Taunton, Mass. Then the discovery of th.e will ( 1654) of William Cogan, of South Chard, in which the testator refers to Eleanor, wife of Walter Deane in New England, as his "daughter," was held to completely upset this theory and to prove that Eleanor was not a Strong, but a ~_ogan. After a careful examination of the Cogan will this does not appear so certain. The testator does indeed mention Eleanor Deane as his daughter, but directly following refers to "Eleanor Cogan my daughter." Would Cogan have had two daughters of his own named Eleanor? The Eleanor Cogan who bore his name and whom he made executrix of his will was certainly his own flesh and blood, but how about Eleanor Deane? I am informed that it has always been held in the Dean family, some of the members of which have made an intensive study of their ancestry, that one of these Eleanors was a step-daughter of Cogan, and if so it is not hard to decide which. Now if Eleanor Deane was Cogan's step-daughter, the question is left just where it was before; her name is as likely to have been Strong as anything else. If she was a sister of Elder John Strong, her mother, as a widow with a young family, would naturally have remarried, and it is not in itself an improbable supposition that she became the wife of William Cogan, a man of her own parish and apparently not greatly exceeding her in years, thus making him step-father of her son John and a younger child. The fact that Eleanor Deane, as appears from the Cogan will, held a life interest in a certain "cottage howse," may he explained on the supposition that this property originally belonged to her mother's estate. Elder John Strong, like William Cogan, was a tanner and doubtless learned his trade of his step-father, if such Cogan was. The Strongs of Chard seem not to have been indigenous to Somer setshire, but natives of Chardstock, Dorsetshire, a village about four miles from Chard, just across the county line. Thomas, the eldest son of George Strong, married, lived and died there, as shown by the parish records. His son James became Vicar of Chardstock and later Rector of Bettiscombe and Vicar of Ilminster. Melanchthon, son of James, was involved in Monmouth's rebellion and after its collapse only saved himself by fleeing in disguise to London. Walter, George Strong's youngest son, made a deposition in 1619 (Diocesan Registry, Wells, Deposition Book vol. 54) from which we learn that he was then [10] forty years of age, was born at Chardstock and had come to Chard twenty years previously, or in 1599. This indicates that George Strong maintained his home at Chards tock for many years after engaging in business at Chard, four miles away. The name in the old records is variously spelled: Strong, Stronge and Strowng. DATE OF Hrs BIRTH Gov. Caleb Strong states that John Strong, at his death in 1699, was aged about 94, therefore born about 1605. His son Jerijah says that he was in his 92nd year i.e. 91, hence born 1607-8. Now, since among the Bishop's Transcripts of the Chard register is a record of the mar- . riage of his father in 1609, it is necessary to set the probable date of his birth not earlier than about 1610, unless we are to suppose that he was the child of a previous marriage of his father. The records being already at variance, it is not a very radical step to clip off one or two years more. Even at that he would have been nearly ninety when he died. This makes it necessary to revise the birth date of his eldest son John, Jr., which Dwight states ( without quoting any authority) to have been 1626. This is probably only an estimate and is a date which had already been questioned as being apparently several years too early. We find that John Strong, Jr., was married in 1656, when, according to the published birth date, he would have been thirty years old. His bride, Mary Clark, was baptized in 1638. In those days men generally married before they were thirty, and a girl of eighteen would probably choose a husband more nearly her own age. These dates confirm the previous impression that John Strong, Jr.'s, birth has been antedated. DATE OF COMING TO AMERICA Gov. Caleb Strong states that Elder John came over in 1630, with Warham, Maverick, Mason and Clapp, members of that historic com pany on the ship "Mary and John," that landed her passengers rather unceremoniously at Nantasket Beach on May 30th of that year, and that he first settled at Dorchester. This was first disputed in 1860 by Savage, who in his remarks appears to show some heat on the subject, as though for some reason he was desirous of demolishing the accepted version. He sets the probable date of landing at 1635-6 and thinks that the account of Elder John's ,coming in the "Mary and John" is based on some erroneous family legend. The more recent discovery of the will of William Deane ( 1634), of South Chard, tends to confirm Savage's view. [11] What are we to think of the statement made by Gov. Caleb in 1777 that John Strong came over in 1630? It is not to be lightly dismissed. Caleb Strong was a man of trained legal mind, careful, accurate and skilled in weighing evidence, as we may well believe. He may have been mistaken as to a name or place in far-away England, he may have been ignorant of some of his ancestor's early migrations in New England, but on a subject open to his investigation and concerning which plenty of reliable evidence was available at that time in Northampton, he would have been the last man to make a positive assertion based only on a misty, floating tradition, as Savage would insinuate. When he wrote his "Account" there were many persons still living in Northampton who must have been intimately acquainted with several of the sons and daughters of Elder John Strong. Some of those persons were children, others grandchildren, of one or another of those sons and daughters, and had every opportunity of hearing the facts from their lips. One of those contemporaries was Gov. Caleb's father, who had died only the year before his son wrote the "Account." Elder John's youngest son, Jerijah, lived until Gov. Caleb himself was a boy in his tenth year, and Jerijah, Jr., born in 1705, lived until 1781. That Abigail Ford, wife of John Strong and ancestress of all the Northampton Strongs, was a passenger on the "Mary and John" is undisputed and it would be strange indeed if her children did not know whether their parents came over from England on the same ship, or five years apart. The inhabitants of Northampton were mostly descendants of the original settlers; they were related to each other by blood and intermarriage; everybody knew everybody else, his ancestry, antecedents and all about him. Prominent families of the town were proud that their great grand fathers were "Mary and John" passengers and that some of them had belonged to the old church at Windsor which was organized in England before the ship sailed and of which the Northampton church may be said to have been an offshoot. In fact the coming of the "Mary and John" was as important an event to these Northampton families as the coming of the Mayflower was to the great grandchildren of the Plymouth Pilgrims. Who came in the "Mary and John" and who did not, was well known and anyone who made a spurious claim · in behalf of his ancestors would have been laughed to scorn. Is it credible that Gov. Strong was misled by some hazy tradition, supposed to have been afloat in the community? Dr. Sydney Strong, of Seattle, in an article on the subject, has elaborated this argument in a way to make it appear well-nigh unanswerable. [12] On the other hand, the will of William Deane proves that his daughter Margerie, Elder John's first wife, was living in 1634, and that she was then in England is to be inferred from the fact that her father bequeathed to her certain household utensils. It must also be admitted that there is little or no evidence that Eider John ever resided at Dorchester. It is possible that Margerie Deane Strong was in New England when her father made his will in 1634, in spite of indications to the contrary. In that case we shall have to understand the tradition that she died "immediately" or "soon" after landing, to mean a few years, instead of weeks or months. It is also possible that John Strong, as other young unmarried men are known to have done, came over first in 1630, under the patronage of an older passenger, some man of prominence and influence. That he was an orphan boy makes this conjecture all the more probable. The writer's immigrant ancestor of his mother's family name-Thomas Angell-is said to have come in just that way as a protege of Roger Williams. It may be that John Strong, finding Dorchester not the most desirable residence for a young bachelor, went back to England (Clapp says that some did go back), married the girl he left behind him, and finding his father-in-law in failing health, remained until after his death in 1634 before undertaking the second voyage. If he was the child of a marriage contracted by his father before the one recorded, as the age ascribed to him by his son Jerijah implies, he would have been of an age to marry in 1630. His HISTORY As a fatherless boy, he seems to have learned in early life the lessons of thrift and industry that develop the successful man of business. This is indicated by his being accepted as the son-in-law of William Deane, who, as his will shows, was a man of affairs and wealthy for the times. His arrival with his young family in America was under very distressing circumstances, bereft by the death of his wife, a widower in a strange land, with two young children, the youngest of which soon followed its mother. But idle repining was not for John Strong. He needed a help-meet and a foster mother for his remaining child. He found her in the person of Abigail Ford, whom, if he really did come over in the "Mary and John," he would remember as a little girl of ten, in charge of her parents, now a maiden of seventeen. Their first home was at Hingham, where in September, 1635, he drew a house lot of five acres on what is now North street, nearb Ship street. Here their first son, Thomas, was born. In December, lf38, he arrived at Taunton, Massachusetts, in company with his brothers-in-law, John [13] and Walter Deane, and it is recorded that he was sworn in as constable the same day-one clear case of the office seeking the man. About three years later he was chosen as Deputy to the General Court (mem ber of the Colonial Legislature), which office he held in 1641-3-4. The colonial records show t_hat he was a member of Capt. William Poole's military company in 1643. His residence at Taunton was on Dean street, described as being next west of John Deane. The site has been designated with a marker by the Taunton Historical Society. About 1645 he removed to Windsor, Connecticut, where a settle ment had been established by a delegation from Dorchester. His children now numbered six. While at Windsor he lived on what is now called the "Deacon Jasper Morgan place," situated in the out skirts of the village, on the highway to Springfield, and near the north bank of the Farmington river, t.h.e "Rivulet" of Windsor history. The house now on the site faces historic Palisado green and is across the street from the old Windsor church. It has been much remodeled hut is said to still contain the timbers of the original edifice. The property remained in the Strong family for nearly 200 years, and then passed to the Morgans who still occupy it. Here six more of his children were born. On May 31, 1930, a pageant was presented at Windsor in observ ance of the Tercentenary of the old church, organized by the passen gers of the "Mary and John" previous to her sailing from England. Among the founders and pioneers represented in the pageant was Elder John Strong, his role being taken by Kenneth Barber, a direct descendant residing at Windsor. In 1659-60 came his removal to his final home at Northampton. It is said in Trumbull's history of that town that the settlement was not flourishing and that the citizens offered. inducements to several enter prising business men to come and settle there, in the hope of reviving the drooping fortunes of the place. One of those invited was John Strong. He accepted. and, leaving the business which he had estab lished. at Windsor in the hands of his sons John and Return, made his final emigration to Northampton. His first home lot was on West street, near Main, hut he soon purchased. for a residence the land lying between Main street and Mill river and extending from Old South street to the Academy of Music. His tan yard was on or near what is now the site of the Hotel Northampton, during the preliminary excavations for which one of his old tan vats and traces of tan bark were brought to light. In later years it was removed by his descend ants to a spot near the comer of Bridge and Market streets. With the infusion of new blood Northampton prospered and with [14] it the business of John Strong. So great was the confidence in his judgment and integrity that the town, by vote, directed that all hides be taken to him to be tanned at his own price. Besides his home lot and tannery he acquired at different times a considerable acreage of land in and about Northampton, about 200 acres, says Dwight. In 1663 he was ordained as ruling elder of the Northampton church, an office which he held throughout the remainder of his long life and which gave him considerable prestige in that religiously inclined community. Thereafter we find him referred to as "Mr." or "Elder," instead of plain John, or as "Goodman," the common appellation. He was a great friend of the Rev. Eleazar Mather, the church pastor, and Trumbull states that to John Strong, more than to any other lay man, the church was indebted for its foundation and early growth. He and some of his sons were subscribers to a fund for the mainte nance of Harvard College, one of the first objects for which our Puritan ancestors, in their zeal for education, gave of their scanty means. These subscriptions were mostly "in kind,"-wheat and other produce. He seems to have been interested in the promotion of a lead mine, deposits of which metal had been discovered in the vicinity. We do not find that he profited financially thereby; probably his experience in that form of investment matched that of some of his descendants. As age approached he made over his lands to his sons, having already bestowed marriage portions on his eight daughters. His wife Abigail, after more than half a century of wedded life, died in 1688, aged about sixty-nine, the mother of fifteen children. In his last years he lived with his son Samuel, on the old homestead. Samuel, after his father's death, sold his share to Jerijah, from whom it passed to his son Bela. It remained in the possession of the Strong family for 103 years. His will is short, the most of his property having been distributed to his children in his lifetime. It consists mainly of a "Memorandum of Additions," referring to the amounts necessary to equalize his gifts to his daughters. He appointed as executors his sons Samuel and Jerijah, and, by a later addition, Ebenezer. The will is signed by his mark, but it must not be thought that he was illiterate, for a facsimile of his signature is preserved in Trumbull's History of Northampton. FL"' SJ.tu, >"'f His grave in the Bridge street cemetery is unmarked and unknown, as are those of his sons and daughters, whatever records or markers that may once have existed having disappeared. What may have been intended as a memorandum for an epitaph is found in the account [15] book of his son Jerijah: "Elder John Strong died April 13, 1699, in the ninety-second year of his age." In 1929, through the efforts of Dr. Sydney Strong, who felt that the founder of the family should no longer be left without some memorial, the necessary funds were raised to erect a boulder monument to his memory. It stands in the older part of the Bridge street cemetery, and in the impression that it gives of strength and unassuming dignity it well expresses the qualities ascribed to our ancestor. He had fifteen children ( seven sons and eight daughters) who were founders of families, and at his death his grandchildren numbered more than one hundred and his great grandchildren about forty. Children of Elder John Strong: By first wife, Margerie Deane: i. JoHN, b. in England; d. Feb. 20, 1698; m. (1) Mary Clark, (2) Elizabeth Warriner; had six children. ii. An infant that died soon after the landing in America. (Family tradition). By second wife, Abigail Ford: \ iii THOMAS, b. about 1637; d. Oct. 3, 1689; m. (1) Mary Hewett, (2) · Rachel Holton; had sixteen children. iv. JEDEDIAH, bapt. April 14, 1639; d. May 22, 1733; m. (1) Freedom Woodward, (2) Abigail Stebbins, (3) Mary Hart Lee; had four teen children. , v. RETURN, b. about 1641; d. April 9, 1726; m. (1) Sarah Warham, (2) Margaret Newberry; had thirteen children. , vi. EBENEZER, b. 1643; d. Feb. 11, 1729; m. Hannah Clapp; had ten children. vii. ABIGAIL. b. about 1645; d. April 15, 1704; m. (1) Rev. Nathaniel Chauncey, (2) Medad Pomeroy; had six children. viii. ELIZABE'.I'H, b. Feb. 24, 1647; d. May 12, 1736; m. Joseph Parsons; had twelve children. ix. EXPERIENCE, bapt. Aug. 4, 1650; m. Zerubbabel Filer; had thirteen children. x. SAMUEL, b. Aug. 5, 1652; d. Oct. 29, 1732; m. (1) Esther Clapp, (2) Ruth Sheldon Wright; had twelve children. xi. JOSEPH, twin with Samuel, d. young. xii. MARY, b. Oct. 26, 1654; d. Dec. 8, 1738; m. John Clark; had eleven children. xiii. SARAH, b. 1656; d. Feb. 10, 1733; m. (1) Joseph Barnard, (2) Jon athan Wells; had eleven children. xiv. HANNAH, b. May 30, 1659; d. Jan. 31, 1694; m. William Clark; had seven children. xv. HESTER. b. June 7, 1661; d. March 4, 1726; m. Thomas Bissell; had six children. [16] MONUMENT IN BRIDGE STREET CEMETERY xvi. THANKFUL, b. July 25, 1663; m. Jonathan Baldwin; had a family, number not reported. xvii. JERIJAH, b. Dec. 12, 1665; d. April 24, 1754;- m. Thankful Stebbins; had eight children. Some of the dates in the above list should doubtless be regarded as proximate rather than exact. Dwight lists one more son, Josiah, who "died young." More recent research indicates that he was identical with Joseph, who was short lived, and that the birth date 1639 assigned to the supposed Josiah really belongs to Jedediah, leav ing 1637 open for Thomas. THE FORD FAMILY _ Abigail Ford was the claugJ1ter of Thomas Ford, of Bridport, Dorset, England. The records of that parisn show that Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Cook were married June 19, 1616. This seems to have been the second marriage of both. Their daughter, Abigail, was baptized at Bridport, Oct. 8, 1619. (These records were furnished by Mr. S. M. Fox, of Manhattan, Kansas, who had them direct from the rector of Bridport. Mr. Fox, who is a descendant of Thomas (2) Strong, is now (1931) in his ninetieth year, but still a very keen student of genealogical problems.) Thomas Ford came with his family to New England in the "Mary and John," and resided at Dorchester, Windsor and Northampton. He seems to have been a man of energy and influence. While at Windsor he was Deputy to the General Court for three or four years. His wife Elizabeth died at Windsor and Dwight states that he married ( 3) Ann, widow of Thomas Scott. He died Nov. 28, 1676. He had no sons, so far as known, but made his impress on posterity through three or four daughters of excellent worth. Abigail was married to John Strong, Joanna to Capt. Roger Clapp and Hepzibah to Richard Lyman. It is said that a fourth daughter, whose name is unknown, became the wife of Major Aaron Cook. This seems to be predicated on the use in certain records of the words "father-in-law" and "son-in-law" to define the relationship between Ford and Cook. It is objected that in those days these words usually meant "step-father" and "step-son," in which senses they are still used to some extent in England. Note that Thomas Ford's wife Elizabeth was apparently the widow of an Aaron Cook, since there is a record that one of that name married Elizabeth Charde, at Thornscombe, Dorset, in 1610. Yet Aaron Cook, Jr., may have been both the step-son and the son-in-law of Thomas Ford. [17] EAHL Y DAYS IN I\ ORTHAMPTON New England 1,vas n British e0lony for a longer time than it has been a part of the [ riitert States. Becau3e it is on this side of the water we forget that at the time of its settlement much the same customs and conditions prevailed as in England during the times of Charles I. and Cromwell. These were intensified by the hardships of a new colony and especially by the isolation due to the lack of roads and wheeled vehicles. Between settlements not connected by water the sole means of communication were bridle paths, rough and perilous, and only wide enough to accommodate one horse. Women rode on pillions behind men. It will be remembered that the wife of Jedediah Strong lost her life by a fall from a pillion while she and her husband were riding between Northampton and Coventry. The first habitations were, of course, log huts, very rudely furnished. Stools and benches took the place of chairs, which were practically unknown until a later day. For tables, boards laid on trestles were commonly used. The food on these "table boards" was usually served in wooden trenchers and eaten with the aid of no other appliances, besides knives, than wooden and pewter spoons. There was no crock ery, and as to our ancestors' table manners we can only repeat the saying that fingers were made before forks. The hour for meals and other purposes was indicated by sun dial, hour-glass or noon mark, instead of clock or watch, and light was admitted through oiled paper windows by day, and furnished by pine knots or fish oil lamps by night. The staple food was at first Indian corn, aided later by wheat and rye. Beef, pork and mutton soon became fairly abundant and there was plenty of fish and game. There were few vegetables, potatoes not being used until much later. Tea and coffee, of such importance in our day, had not yet come into use. Liquor, of course, flowed freely, as it continued to do for two centuries afterwards. It was consumed by men, women and chil dren alike, although we do find one dietitian, apparently in advance . of his time, recommending that spirits be given sparingly to children and that their beer be served warm. The English were ( and are) a beer drinking people, but the colonists seem to have substituted hard cider as soon as apples became abundant. The thought of liquor drinking being a quasi irreligious act, to be avoided by the pious and virtuous, had certainly never entered their minds. We read that at the building of the new church at Northampton in 1738, ten gallons of rum were bought for eight pounds to "raise the meeting house," d that, as the sequel, the village doctor received three pounds for [18] "setting Jonathan Strong, his bone." The dinner to celebrate the ordination of a new minister, a great event in New England life, was always very "wet." It is said that a temporary bar was sometimes set up at the church door and drinks served free to all comers. What we would now call hard drinking was customary at funerals. The Rev. Nathan Strong, as stated in the family history, lost an inheritance which he had invested in a mercantile establishment, but it is not explained that said establishment was a distillery. With all this, drunkenness was condemned and punished; the offender might be set in the stocks, forced to wear a letter D, or, in extreme cases, dis franchised. It would appear that our ancestors must have found the answer to the age-old question of, "When is a man drunk?" The regime of olden times still survived in some of its cruel and oppressive aspects. Witchcraft was devoutly believed in, although there is only one case of prosecution of an alleged witch on record at Northampton. The accused was Mary Parsons, the mother-in-law of Elder John Strong's daughter Elizabeth, and she was finally acquitted. Sumptuary laws were passed at an early day, but finally became obsolete, apparently on account of the impossibility of enforcing them. Slavery, of both negroes and Indians, existed to a limited extent. The inventory of Ebenezer Strong's estate included a negro boy, apparised at 80 pounds, and an Indian slave called Boston, whom he willed to his well-beloved wife Elizabeth. (Ebenezer's little sister had been killed by the Indians and it is probable that whatever phil anthropy he may have originally felt toward the noble savage had been considerably cooled). Jack, a negro belonging to Samuel Wolcott, accidentally set fire to the house of Lieut. William Clark, Hannah Strong Clark's father-in-law. For this he was sentenced to "be hanged by the neck till he be dead and then to be taken down and burnt to ashes in the fire." This same Samuel Wolcott was himself arrested for beating, presumably cruelly, an Indian servant, which shows that the laws afforded some protection to the slaves. Wolcott was, by the way, an ancestor of those members of this branch of the Strong family who are of Burrell descent. The chief source of disquietude to the colonists, and one which we now imperfectly realize, was the deadly and almost constant appre hension under which they lived of attack by the lndians-"the in flamed, devilish, bloudy savages," as they called them, and well they might. This condition lasted for nearly a century and a half, at least so far as the Connecticut river valley towns and the outlying settle ments were concerned. King Philip's War broke the power of the [19] Indians of New England, but soon after its close came the first of the long series of wars between England and France. Each new out break of hostilities brought down the redskin marauders from the north. It has been said that the farmer at work in his field, the villager on his way to a neighbor's, ihe very children at play were never for a moment safe from the prowling Indian, to whom age or sex meant nothing so long as he obtained a captive or a scalp. Sarah Strong, an infant of two months, was slain by the savages. Gov. Caleb Strong's mother told of seeing when a child, a little playmate, who was en gaged in picking flowers, seized and carried away by an Indian. Joseph Barnard, who married Sarah Strong, died of wounds received from the Indians. Mary Sheldon, the second wife of Jonathan Strong, and the sweetheart of his youth, was captured in the raid on Deer• field and carried to Canada. On her return, after being ransomed, her first inquiry was for Jonathan, but he had married another her return was deemed too uncertain to be waited for. She lost no time in following his example. In 1761, after both had lost the first spouse, they renewed the romance and were married at last, hut the Indian raid had delayed the wedding for half a century. In the later French and Indian wars the family was represented by Elder John's grandsons. A few instances have come down to us. Jedediah Strong, Jr., was killed in a fight with the Indians at Wood Creek, N. Y. Preserved Strong took part in the battle at Deerfield at the time of the notorious massacre there by the French and In dians, and is recorded among eight from Northampton who "fought in the meadow." He was a soldier in Queen Anne's War. Thomas Bissell, son of Elder John's daughter Hester Strong Bissell, killed in single combat a large and powerful Indian who boasted of the number of white men he had slain and announced his intention of adding young Bissell's scalp to his collection. One striking incident of family interest which escaped the notice of Dwight, was the experience of Samuel Strong, son of Elder John. Early on the morning of August 10, 1711, he and his son Samuel, aged 24, started for their day's work at the farm.. They passed through "Kingsley's gate," near where High street now enters the meadows, and at the foot of the hill fell into an Indian ambuscade. The young man fell dead at the first fire and the father was wounded and "captivated," as the record reads. He was dragged off in the direction of Canada, and, according to the tradition preserved in the family, on reaching the top of a high hill, he turned and took what he supposed to be his last look at his beloved home town. He [20] finally recovered his liberty, how is not known, and succeeded in making his way back to Northampton. As it was "Lecture Day," the people were gathered in the meeting house, and when Samuel walked in among them they looked upon him as one risen from the dead. He had another son, born after his captivity, to whom he gave the name of the one that was slain. Ancient records do not confirm the popular supposition that the colonial period was the time of spotless virtue of the mature and docility of the young. Youthful spirits sometimes overflowed. In 1699 John Strong (grandson of the Elder,) and three others were arrested for "striving and bustling in the meeting house and not for bearing when warned." A stroke fell directly into the good Elder's household when his daughters, Mary and Hester, were presented and fined for wearing silks, in violation of the sumptuary laws, and, as if the mere fact were not enough, they were charged with doing so "in a flaunting manner." Imagine the consternation in that puritan home! During the pastorate of Jonathan Edwards it was whispered about that a coterie of young people of the congregation were reading "bad books." We can scarcely suppose that these young folks read what would now be called immoral literature-almost any romance, how ever innocent, would then have been considered sinful-but Mr. Edwards demanded a searching investigation, which was begun but soon smothered, for the same reason that many an investigation has been, prominent families found that their own children were likely to be involved. Edwards resented this outcome and the dissension thus caused, complic_ated with some doctrinal controversies, resulted in the loss of his pastorate. Among his prominent opponents was Jonathan Strong, Jr., while the name of Nathaniel Strong is found in a list of his few friends. Released from pastoral cares, he turned his thoughts to literature. Had it not been for the naughty children of Northampton, the "Freedom of the Will" might never have _been written. INTERMEDIATE ANCESTORS. II. RETURN STRONG, son of Elder John, was born at Taunton about 1641; died at Windsor, April 9, 1726. A lad of about eighteen when his parents removed to Northampton, he did not accompany them, hut remained at Windsor, apparently to assist his elder brother John, or whoever took over his father's tanning business. At any rate he became a tanner himself and occupied his father's former home and place of business-the present Morgan place. He married, (1) [21] in 1664, Sarah Warham, daughter of the Rev. John Warham, pastor of the Windsor church, an alliance which indicates that he must have been a young man of promise and good character. He was a member of the Hartford County Cavalry Troop, of which he was appointed by the General Court as Cornet ( 2d lieut.) in 1689 and Lieutenant in 1692. He was Deputy from Windsor to the General Court at Hartford in 1689-90, and in 1710 was appointed justice of the peace for Hart ford county. His name appears frequently in various capacities in the town and probate records of Windsor. He is generally designated at "Lieut." or "Mr.", instead of the usual "Goodman." His wife Sarah died in 1678, and on May 23, 1689, he married (2) Margaret Newberry, daughter of Capt. Benjamin and Mary (Allyn) Newberry, both· of her parents being of prominent Windsor families. He is said to have removed in his later years to Northampton, but no confirmation of this statement has been found. His death is thus recorded at Windsor: "Lieut. Return Strong dyed April the 9th Anno Dom. 1726." His will of 1719 mentions sons Samuel and Benjamin, and daugh ters Sarah, Abigail, Elizabeth, Damaris, Hannah and Margaret, also his grandson John Warham Strong, son of Return, Jr., deceased. He bequeaths to Samuel his lands south of the river and to Benjamin those on the north, including the homestead and tannery. The history of this son Benjamin has not been traced. He evidently left Windsor, for the homestead seems to have passed into the possession of John Warham Strong. He may have been the Rev. Benjamin Strong who was ordained a minister from Yale College in 1734 and was pastor of the Stanwick, Conn., church until 1767. He had a wife Rachel and son Benjamin. Dwight fell into the error of making the second wife of Return Strong the first wife of his son, Return Jr., and fathering upon the latter her children, who were in fact his half-brothers and sisters. Following is the corrected list of Return Strong Sr.'s children, ob tained by comparing his will, the Windsor town records, Savage's Genealogical Dictionary and Dwight's genealogy: · Children: By first wife, Sarah Warham: i. SARAH, b. March 14, 1665-6. ii. ABIGAIL, b. March 8, 1666-7. iii. RETURN, b. Feb. 10, 1668-9; d. Aug. 6, 1708. iv. ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 20, 1670-1. v. SAMUEL, b. May 20, 1673; d. July 28, 1673. vi. DAMARIS, b. July 3, 1674. vii. SAMUEL, b. Dec. 27,- 1675. [22] By second wife, Margaret Newberry: viii. HANNAH, b. May 8, 1692. ix. JOSEPH, b. Feb. 7, 1694; d. Dec. 1696. x. MARY, b. --; d. Oct. 28, 1708. xi. MARGARET, b. April 28, 1698-9. xii. JOSEPH, b. --; d. June 11, 1709. xiii. BENJAMIN, b. Nov. 30, 1703. Sarah Warham Str0ng was the daughter of the Rev. John Warham and his second wife, Joan, or Jane, whom he married as the widow of Thomas Newberry. Her maiden 'name seems to have been Dabinot. He was born in England, probably about 1595 and is said to have been a descendant of Archbishop Warham, of Canterbury. He grad uated from Oxford University in 1614 and was ordained a clergyman in 1619, holding various charges in the west of England and finally at Exeter. Capt. Roger Clapp relates in his "Memoirs" that when a young man he took such a liking to Mr. W arham and his preaching that he desired to live near him and obtained his father's permission to remove to Exeter for that purpose. Clapp had never so much as heard of New England, but learning that Warham intended to go there, his young disciple resolved to go too, and did so. The company that came over in the "Mary and John" and founded Dorchester in 1630 had before sailing chosen John W arham and John Maverick for their spiritual guides. Maverick died within a few years and in 1635 War ham and some three score of his parishioners, being desirous, as it is suspected, of a more liberal and democratic atmosphere than that of the Massachusetts Bay colony, migrated through the wilderness to Connecticut and established themselves at Windsor, where a small delegation from Plymouth had arrived before them. There he con tinued until his death, about thirty-five years later, as pastor of the church, which then stood on Palisado green. Amid the rigors and scarcity of a new settlement the New England minister had sometimes to eke out his living as best he could, and Mr. Warham combined the trade of miller with the profession of theology. One of his ancient mill stones, preserved as a relic of olden times, is still to be seen in the door yard of a Windsor descendant. By his combined occupations he accumulated a good estate-enough, unfortunately, to cause dis sentions among his heirs when it came to the division. He had by his first marriage one son who died in childhood, and by his second four daughters, one of whom, Hester, was renowned among her descend ants for her womanly graces and force of character. She was married first, to the Rev. Eleazar Mather, the first pastor of the church at Northampton, and second to his successor, the Rev. Solomon Stod- [23] dard, thus being the "minister's wife" at Northampton for about seventy years. She was the grandmother of Jonathan Edwards, the theologian and metaphysician, therefore Mr. Edwards' mother and our ancestor Samuel Strong were first cousins. His daughter Sarah, our ancestress, was taken away in the prime of womanhood; the inscription on her grave-stone, one of the earliest in the old Windsor cemetery, reads simply: "Sarah, the wife of Return Strong, aged 37 years. She dyed Decem. the 26 ano 1678." If good ancestry is to be prized for the reason that it gives something "to live up to," we are fortunate in having for examples the two Johns-Strong and Warham. Many of this branch of the family have doubtless remarked that the descend ants of Return Strong are few in munber compared 'lvith thoSe of the other sons of John Strong. They are made to appear fewer than they really are by a mis placement in the family history of one numerous branch-the descendants of John Warham Strong-who was a grandson of Return, as is shown both by his will and the Windsor records. Beginning with page 80 in Dwight's History, there are thirty-eight pages filled with the names of persons who appear as the descendants of John Strong of Windsor, but are really those of his younger brother, Return. Among them is that of Prof. John Strong Newberry, the eminent geologist. III. SAMUEL STRONG, son of Return, was born at Windsor, Dec. 27, 1675; died there Jan. 15, 1742. He .married, Nov. 9, 1699, Martha Buckbnd, daughter of Nicholas and Martha (Wakefield) Buckland. She was born March 1, 1678; died Dec. 5, 1770. Her grandfather, Thomas Buckland, was a soldier in the Pequot War. Samuel Strong lived at Windsor all his life. His occupation is not stated, but it is probable that he was a tanner. In 1710 he was appointed by the General Assembly as quartermaster of the Hartford County Cavalry Troop, and he was one of the Selectmen of Windsor about 1731. His wife Martha lived to be 93, surviving her husband for twenty-eight years. One stone marks the two graves in the Windsor cemetery: "In memory of Mr. Samuel Strong & Mrs. Martha, his wife; he Died Janry ye 15 AD 1742 in ye 66th year of his age. She Died Deer 5 1770 in ye 93d year of her age." Children: i. SARAH, b. Jan. 1, 1701. ii. MARTHA, b. June 26, 1704; d. young. iii. SAMUEL, b. July 16, 1705. iv. DAVID, b. April 13, 1708; d. April 18, 1708. v. MARTHA, b. Nov. 25, 1709. vi. RETURN, b. Feb. 26, 1712. vii. MARY, b. Feb. 20, 1719. [24] Of the five children of this family that survived infancy the history of only one-our ancestor Samuel-has been fully traced. Dwight supposes Return, No. 6, to have been the Return Strong who married Sarah Nichols, of Hartford, and had a daughter Ellen, and the tomb stone records at Windsor show that this supposition is correct. He appears in the history of Windsor as Lieut. Return Strong, who served in the war with Spain and took part in the expedition against Havana in 1741. He is also recorded as a soldier in the American Revolution, although he was sixty-three years old when that war broke out, and was in service at the siege of Boston. He had a daughter Margaret, who was married to Levi Hayden, and descendants of hers named Hayden and Barber are, or were, living at Windsor. Lieut Return Strong died late in 1776, the birth year of the nation. This mention is due to the memory of a patriot of our line who escaped the notice of the genealogist. IV. SAMUEL STRONG, JR., son of Samuel, was born at Windsor, July 16, 1705; died at Union, Conn., Jan. 13, 1789. He married Dec. 12, 1733, Martha Stoughton, daughter of John and Eunice (Bissell) Stoughton, of Windsor. She was born June 11, 1711; died March 15, 1798. He lived at Windsor until about forty years of age, then removed about 1745 to Union, then evidently a new settlement of promise, now a rather remote township with a population scanty but of excellent original stock. An old letter, written more than sixty years ago by a member of the family, states that he "emigrated from Suffield," so it may be that he resided at that town for a time. At any rate, the fact that three of his children-Ruth, Hannah and Return-married residents of Suffield, indicates a connection of some . kind with that place. While in Union he lived in what was called the Rockmeadow neighborhood, in the west part of the town, near the Stafford line. In 1750 he was appointed by the General Assembly of Connecticut as one of two commissioners to receive the land tax col lected for the "support of the ministry among them." His will, proved in 1789, opened with this paragraph, which is quoted for the benefit of some who may not be familiar with the formal and solemn phrase ology used in ancient wills: In the Name of God, Amen: I, Samuel Strong, of the county of Windham and State of Connecticut, being weak of body hut of sound and disposing mind and memory, and calling to mind that it is appointed for all men to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament; and first and foremost I give my soul into the hands of God that gave it me and my body to the dust to be buried according to the discretion of my executors hereafter mentioned, nothing doubt ing hut at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again through the mighty power of God. [25] The will mentions his wife Martha, sons David, Samuel, Alexander and Return, daughters Eunice Wyles, Martha Burke, Ruth Rising, Hannah and heirs of daughter Lucy Wales. The place of Samuel Strong's burial is unknown. His wife Martha surv1vea• , 1mm • tor'" nme• years. Martha Stoughton was supposed, according to the family history, to have been the daughter of John Stoughton, of Windsor, and Sarah (Fitch). Investigation of old deeds at Stafford, in several of which the names of the heirs of John Stoughton are found, proves that the John Stoughton who married as his second wife Sarah Fitch, was riot the father, but the grandfather of Martha, and that her father was his son, John Jr. The Stoughtons were an old and prominent Windsor family. Martha was of the fifth generation. Her line was: John ( 4) m. Eunice Bissell, John (3) m. Elizabeth Bissell, Thomas (2) m. Mary Wadsworth, Thomas ( 1) . Through the Bissells the Strongsville branch of the family has a second line of descent from Elder John Strong through his daughter Hester, the wife of Thomas Bissell, Jr. (Hester was the little girl who flaunted her silks in the streets of Northampton and who in after life became the mother of young Thomas Bissell who slew the bullying Indian.) The founder of the Bissell family was John, who settled at Windsor before 1640. He received a monopoly of the Connecticut river ferry, and "Bissell's Ferry" was continued in operation by his descendants until well within the present century. He was chosen as Deputy in 1642 and attended forty-six sessions of the General Court. Children of Samuel and Martha Strong: i. LucY, b. April 4, 1735, m. Solomon Wales. ii. DAVID, b. June 4, 1736. iii. EUNICE, b. Dec. 21, 1737, m. --Wyles. iv. MARTHA, b. May 6, 1739, m. Simeon Burke. v. SAMUEL, b. July 8, 1743, m. Anna Needham. vi. RUTH, b. Dec. 2, 1744, m. Paul Rising. vii. JoHN STOUGHTON, b. March 8, 1746, scalded to death in childhood. viii. ALEXANDER, b. Nov. 17, 1748, m. Abigail Rice. ix. HANNAH, b. Dec. 8, 1750, m. Jonathan Rising. x. RETURN, b. Dec. 30, 1755, m. Hannah Harman. V. DAVID STRONG, son of Samuel, Jr., was born June 4, 1736 (recorded at Windsor) ; died at Stafford, Conn., Oct. 8, 1811. At about ten years of age he removed with his parents to Union. Here he grew to manhood on his father's farm. In 1759 his parents, Samuel and Martha, deeded to him, chiefly "in consideration of love and parental affection," fifty acres of land in Stafford, lying on the east [26] side of Roaring Brook and adjoining the east town line. This land is described as being a part of his parents' inheritance from their "Hon'l father, John Stoughton," and doubtless adjoined on the east his father's land in Union. It must have been the nucleus of David's farm in Stafford. On Nov. 26, 1760, he married at Stafford, Sarah Warner, of Mansfield. Following the preliminary rumblings in the early l 770's of the American Revolution, the General Assembly of Connecticut at its session of March, 1775, appointed David Strong as Ensign (second lieutenant) of the 9th company of the 22d regiment. He responded to the Lexington alarm and marched with his company to Boston. Further details of his service are not known; it is the family tradition that he rose to the rank of captain. "Uncle Stoughton" Strong, of Tecumseh, Mich., stated that his grandfather David was always spoken of by his father (John Stoughton, Sr.) as Captain Strong. His brothers, Samuel and Alexander, were also in the patriot army. His wife Sarah died March 11, 1777, and on March 19, 1778, he married (2) Jane Groves, of Brimfield, Mass. She died Oct. 3, 1808. His will, according to the copy on file at Stafford, is dated Aug. 11, 1811, but it contains internal evidence that it could not have been written later than 1805. He bequeaths to his wife Jane the use of and income from one-third of all his lands, and the occupancy of one-half of his dwelling, during her widowhood. To each of the sons and daughters by his first marriage he makes a nominal bequest, stating in each case that, with what he has heretofore given, it constitutes his or her full share of his estate. To the younger daughters he gives live stock and household furniture. His son Samuel, with whom, he says, "I expect to spend the remainder of my days and from whom I expect support until my life shall be no more," is made his residuary legatee. By a codicil written after his wife's death, her portion is to go to Samuel, according to the understanding expressed above. Among the special bequests are the provisions that a good and gentle saddle horse is to be kept for the use of his wife, that his son Eliphalet is to have the privilege of a "gangway," or easement, through his land over which to cart hay, and that his daughter Azubah, who was of a "weak, infirm constitution," is to always have a home and an honorable maintenance at his house. These bequests evince a kind and thought£ ul disposition. The executor's bond was signed by Samuel Strong, October 19, 1811. Sarah Warner was born at Mansfield, Conn., May 9, 1740; died at Stafford, March 11, 1777. Her father, Thomas, was a descendant of [27] Andrew Warner, who came over from county Essex, England, about 1632. He was an early settler of Hartford and a founder of Hadley, Mass. Her mother, Delight Metcalf, was the orphan daughter of the Rev. Joseph Metcalf, of Falmouth, Mass., a descendant of Michael Metcalf, of Norwich, England, who was driven to America by relig ious persecution. It is through Sarah Warner that the Mayflower line comes into the family, she being the three-times great granddaughter of Gov. William Bradford, of Plymouth, the second signer of the Mayflower compact. She died in early middle life, the mother of nine children. A pathetic incident is disclosed in the Stafford church records: "Baptized March 14, 1777, two children (twins) of Ensign David Strong, named David and Abigail, baptized at his house (for special reasons) at ye time of his wife's funeral." The graves of David Strong and his wives, Sarah and Jane, are in the "Old Stafford Street" cemetery, a disused and somewhat neglected burying ground, formerly covered with weeds and bus'hes, but now mowed twice a year. The grave-stones, still in fair condition, bear these inscriptions: In memory of Mr. David Strong who died Oct. 8, 1811, aged 75 years. Mourn not for me; dry up your tears. I must be here till Christ appears. In memory of Mrs. Sarah, wife of Mr. David Strong, who died March 11, 1777, aged 37 years. I bid my friends a long farewell To dwell in dust and clay, Till Christ my Saviour calls me home At the last judgment day. In memory of Mrs. Jane, wife of Mr. David Strong, who died Oct. 3, 1808, aged 62 years. Father, I give my spirit up And trust it in thy hand. This dying flesh shall rest in hope And rise at thy command. The list of David Strong's children, as published in the family history, needs a few corrections and additions, as is shown by the Stafford records: Children, born at Stafford: By first wife, Sarah Warner: i ELIPHALET, b. Aug. 20, 1761. ii. SARAH, b. March 15, 1763. iii. HANNAH, b. Jan. 12, 1765; d. Dec. 10, 1765. iv. HANNAH, b. Oct. 22, 1766. [28] MONIJMENT TO THE Fou:--.DERS OF WINDSOR. v. DAVID, h. March 26, 1769; d. Dec. 25, 1775. vi. OoHN) STOUGHTON, b. July 20, 1771. vii. DELIGHT, b. April 20, 1774. viii. ABIGAIL, b. Dec. 11, 1776. ix. DAVID (twin), b. Dec. 11, 1776. By second wife, Jane Groves: x. SAMUEL, hapt. May 2, 1779. xi.' (A) ZUBAH, b. Dec. 3, 1780; d. young. xii. EUNICE, b. Dec. 19, 1781. xiii. AzuBAH, h. Feb. 2, 1783. xiv. MARY, b. Sept. 10, 1786. (It will be seen that Windsor, rather than Northampton, is to be regarded as the original home of this branch of the Strong family, five generations of which were identified with the place: 1. Elder John Strong lived there for fifteen years. 2. Return Strong all his adult life. 3. Samuel Strong all his life. 4. Samuel Strong, Jr., for forty years. 5. David Strong was born there.) A monument to the founders of the church and town of Windsor and to the first minister, Rev. John Warham, was unveiled at the commemoration in May, 1930, of the 300th anniversary of the old church. (See illustration opposite.) The ship above the dedication to W arham and his companions is a model of the type of the "Mary and John" in which they crossed the ocean. On either side are inscribed the names, 125 in all, of the founders of Windsor and the church. Among them are eight who were our direct ancestors, viz: John Strong, John Warham, Thomas Ford, Thomas Stoughton, John Bissell, John Moore, Thomas Buckland and Nicholas Denslow. The monument is of Rhode Island granite. It was designed by Evelyn Longman Batchelder, who gave her services, and the funds for its erection were collected by the Connecticut Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims. [29] JOHN STOUGHTON STRONG, founder of Strongsville and a direct ancestor or collateral of all the Strongs who trace their origin therefrom, was born at Stafford, July 20, 1771. This is according to the Stafford birth record, which differs from the family history by one day. He is recorded simply as "Stoughton" without the "John," but in his baptismal record receives his full name, viz: "August 18, 1771, a child of Mr. David Strong, named John Stoughton." The name is that of his great grandfather Stoughton, also that of an uncle who lost his life in childhood by a distressing accident. Of his early life we know noti1iing, any par ticulars which he may have communicated to his family having been lost before they reached his grandchildren. Doubtless he was brought up to hard labor on the farm and his education was of the severely practical kind, although he did once remark to the writer's father that he learned to cipher to the rule of three. From some strain in his ancestry he inherited qualities which developed into a character of remarkable energy, courage and reso lution. His restless activity led him to leave his native town at the age of twenty-two and emigrate to Marlboro, in southeastern Vermont. His route thither· would be up the Connecticut river valley, via Springfield and Northampton. He may have been drawn there by the fact that it was the home of an aunt, Mrs. Hannah Strong Rising, whose husband was a Marlboro farmer. He may also have been pre ceded by the family of his elder sister, Hannah, who married Josiah Wheeler. His brother David came there too, but probably later. In June, 1795, he married Tamar Whitney, daughter of Jonas Whitney, the town "squire," church deacon and principal man of the place. His characteristic impetuosity and determination overrode all the objections of her parents, which seem to have been solely on account of her youth, she being not quite sixteen. His occupations at Marlboro were diversified, consisting principally of farming and distilling, which he seems to have combined with trade and investment in various other lines. He must have gained more than a local repu tation for energy and good business judgment, for in 1815 he attracted the notice of the brothers Henry and William Ellsworth, of Windsor, Conn., who had inherited from their father a township of land in the Western Reserve of Ohio. This was Township No. 5, Range 14, now rno1 Strongsville. The Ellsworths picked John Strong, of Marlboro, as the right man to develop the settlement of their township in the wilderness and convert the wild land into salable property. An agree ment was concluded. Sidney Strong, a lawyer by profession, who came into possession of all of his grandfather's business papers, stated that he purchased one-half of the township and was agent of the proprietors for the sale of the remainder, and Frederick Strong, in his biography of John Stoughton Strong, also states that after an examination of the deeds and contracts involved, it appears that he bought in all fully one-half of the township, as well as considerable land in neighboring counties. In February, 1816, he arrived at the township which was to bear his name, accompanied by his son Emory and four neighbors, one of whom brought his wife and child. In 1818 he was joined by his own wife and nine children, for whose accommodation a log cabin had been built. With them, or a little later, came the family of his sister Mary, who was married to Eliakim Lyon. The place consisted principally of unbroken forest and the first years were oc~upied in surveying the land, cutting roads, promoting the erection of necessary buildings and negotiating the sale of lots. As the settlement developed, his interests, in addition to farming, came to consist of an ashery or potash manufactory, a saw mill, a grist mill, a distillery, a tavern and a general store. Doubtless he. considered it incumbent upon him to establish and operate any busbess necessary to the development of the place in case there was no one else to do so. As an outlet for his superfluous energy he entered into the business of buying cattle on a large scale and driving them to the eastern markets at New York, Boston and Philadelphia. This business he continued until he was seventy years of age and partially blind, when he reluctantly gave it up, but only to engage in the extensive purchase of sheep which he sold in Michigan and Illinois. Two years of this ended his business activities except for his interests at home. Born for action, he was not one to appreciate the advantages of a leisurely old age, and his powers gradually failed until his death, Feb. 23, 1863, at the age of ninety-one. This is only an outline of the life of a man of remarkable character, to which no attempt has been made to do justice. A full account of his life and activities, his excellencies and eccentricities, will be found in his biography, by Frederick Strong. Tamar Whitney, born July 9, 1779, died Aug. 2, 1856, was the daughter of Jonas and Tamar (Houghton) Whitney, of Marlboro, [31] Vermont. She combined devoted piety and efficiency as a mother and home-maker with the ability to regulate, if called upon, her husband's multitudinous business affairs during his absence. She is described as a large woman, with strongly marked, handsome features. Her memory was revered by her descendants and by all who knew her. The founder of the Whitney family was John Whitney, who came from England in 1635 and settled at Watertown, Mass. The line is: John 1, John 2, Nathaniel 3, Nathaniel 4, Samuel 5, Jonas 6, Tamar 7. Jonas Whitney was born at Shrewsbury, Mass., June 14, 1751, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hastings). He died at Strongsville, April 28, 1842, having gone there to live with his daughters in his old age. Tamar Houghton was born at Lancaster, Mass., Jun~ 3, 1754, and died March 31, 1831, the daughter of Solomon and Deliverance (Ross) Houghton. Her immigrant ancestor was John Houghton, a native of England, who was one of the founders of Lancaster. Her line is: John 1, John 2, Robert 3, Joshua 4, Solomon 5, Tamar 6. Children of John Stoughton Strong: i. EMORY, b. March 31, 1796. ii. RENDA, b. May 31, 1799; m. Benjamin Olds; d. July 15, 1821, without issue. iii. STOUGHTON, b. May 8, 1801; d. March 29, 1819. iv. WARNER, b. June 30, 1804. v. FRANKLIN, b. Feb. 23, 1807. vi. Cr.ARK Ross, b. Dec. 20, 1808. vii. LoVINIA, b. Nov. 16, 1810; d. Aug. 22, 1811. viii LoVINIA, b. Sept. 19, 1812. ix. JoHN CHIPMAN, b. June 15, 1815. x. LYMAN WHITNEY, b. March 21, 1817. xi. JOHN STOUGHTON, b. at Strongsville, June 29, 1820. (All but the youngest born at Marlboro, Vermont). [32] JOHN s. STRONG'S STORE AND RESIDENCE EMORY STRONG, eldest son of John Stoughton Strong, was born at Marlboro, Vt., March 31, 1796; died at Strongsville, May 25, 1834. He married in March, 1818, (1) Mary Olds, daughter of Col. Benjamin and Lois (Baldwin) Olds, of Westfield, Mass. She was born in 1794; died at Strongsville, May 11, 1829. He married (2) in 1830, Irene Johnson, born Feb. 9, 1801, daughter of Phineas and Hannah Johnson, of Laporte, 0. When twenty years of age he came to Strongsville with the first party of pioneer settlers led by his father. As a young man he was his father's clerk and amanuensis, keeping all the accounts of his extensive business affairs. Among old family papers is a contract with his father, written in 1821, in which he agrees to render this service. The assistance of his wife, Mary, was also included so far as her domestic duties and state of health would allow. He was also manager of his father's general store at Strongsville, and later a mer chant there on his own account. It is said that he built the first frame store in the village. His widow married Niram Bruce, of Laporte. Children: i. MARY, b. 1819; d. March 11, 1821. ii. ALMIRA, b. 1820; d. April 17, 1822. 2. iii. BENJAMIN OLDS, b. Feb. 22, 1824. iv. ELIZA, b. 1829; d. Aug. 15, 1849. v. GEORGE WHITNEY, b. April 19, 1831; was a farmer at Laporte, no family recorded. vi. DELIA LAVINIA, b. July 15, 1834; d. April 1, 1855. 2. BENJAMIN OLDS STRONG (Emory, John Stoughton), was born at Strongsville, Feb. 22, 1824; died at Kankakee, Ill., April 3, 1857. He married May 2, 1849, Fanny Sophia Taylor, born May 2, 1824, daughter of Isaac and Fanny S. Taylor, of Madison, N. Y. He graduated at Western Reserve College in 1843 and was a farmer and merchant at Strongsville, Seville and finally at Kankakee. Children: i. MARY JANE, b. Aug. 26, 1850; m. Sept. 1, 1869, Albert B. Taylor, son of John and Hester (Chambers) Taylor, of Lodi, 0. He was born July 12, 1846; died Oct. 6, 1920, a banker at Lodi. She died at Seville, 0., Dec. 19, 1927. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor gave as a benefaction to Oberlin College a hotel building valued at $50,000. ii. ELLEN SOPHIA, b. July 9, 1853; d. April 3, 1854. [33] WARNER STRONG, third son of John Stoughton Strong, was born at Marlboro, Vt., June 30, 1804; died at Strongsville, Aug. 22, 1856. He married (1) June 23, 1825, Lydia Buell, born in 1801, daughter of----- and Rachel (Strong) Buell, of Brooklyn, 0. She died June 2, 1826, and he married (2) Jan. 21, 1829, Salome Burrell, daughter of Jabez and Mary (Robbins) Burrell, of Sheffield, 0. She was horn at Shef field, Mass., Jan~ 27, 1804; died at Strongsville, Sept. 27, 1856. He was educated at Talmadge Academy and as a young man succeeded his brother Emory as secretary and assistant of his father in his diver sified business affairs. Later he purchased his father's general store and for the remainder of his life was a merchant at Strongsville, com bining that business with farming and stock raising. He held the offices of justice of the peace and postmaster and was successively lieutenant, captain and major in the state militia. His commission as postmaster, signed by Andrew Jackson, is preserved by one of his grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Strong both died in middle life, victims of the epidemic of typhoid dysentery that prevailed in Strongsville in 1856. Salome Burrell came from Sheffield, Mass., with the family of her father, Jabez Burrell, who was the founder of Sheffield, Ohio. Her grandfather, Abra ham Burrell, lived at Sheffield and was a Revolutionary soldier. Beyond him it has not been possible to trace the Burrell line. Her mother, Mary Robbins, was the daughter of Solomon Robbins, of Sandisfield, Mass., also a soldier of the Revolution. Through the Robbins line comes descent from several prominent Connecticut families, the Welleses (including G<>v. Thomas), the Appletons, Wolcotts, Newberrys and others. Children, born at Strongsville: By first marriage: 2. i. WARNER HENRY, b. May 19, 1826. By second marriage: ii. LoVINI.A ELIZA, b. March 27, 1830, d. March 30, 1831. 3. iii. Eow ARD BURRELL, h. May 4, 1832. 4. iv. FREDERICK, b. July 5, 1835. 5. v. SIDNEY, b. June 12, 1839. 6. vi. MARY ANN, b. May 8, 1841. 2. WARNER HENRY STRONG (Warner, John Stoughton), was horn at Strongsville, May 19, 1826; died Jan. 17, 1891. He married May 14, 1850, Hannah Hill White, daughter of William Czar White [34] and Betsey (House), of Chatham, Conn., and Tecumseh, Mich. She was horn April 15, 1828; died Feb. 1887. He attended the Richfield, 0., High School and was a clerk in his father's store until his marriage, after which he conducted a store at Strongsville and later one at Albion. Warned by the result of an examination, when he desired to enlist as a soldier in the Civil War, that his health required out-of-door occupation, he engaged in farming at Strongsville for the rest of his life. He had an excellent musical education and for many years was leader of the choir of the Congregational church. Children, horn at Strongsville: 7. i. LEWIS HENRY, b. Aug. 4, 1852. 8. ii. WILLIAM WARNER, b. Dec. 28, 1858. 9. iii. HELEN LoursE, h. Aug. 9, 1860. 3. EDWARD BURRELL STRONG (Warner, John Stoughton), was born at Strongsville, May 4, 1832; died at Pasadena, Calif., Feb. 28, 1915. He niarried May 17, 1859, Mary Ellen Farnsworth, daugh ter of Alvin Farnsworth, of Medina, 0. She was born May 17, 1839; died at Chicago in 1901. He received a commercial education and at the age of nineteen went into business at Cleveland, continuing, either on his own account or as an agent for others, in various lines until 1867, when he became interested in the grain trade. This he followed for the remainder of his active life, first at Winona, Minn., and after 1878 at Chicago, where he was in the grain commission business and a prominent member of the Board of Trade, also having interests in hanking. His death occurred suddenly in California, where he was in the habit of spending his winters. Having no children, the principal part of his estate was divided by his will among the heirs of his brothers and sister. 4. FREDERICK STRONG (Warner, John Stoughton), was born at Strongsville, July 5, 1835; died at Pacific Grove, Calif., April 18, 1919. He married at Windham, 0., Feb. 7, 1861, Mary Elizabeth Angell, daughter of Joseph and Cornelia (Arnold) Angell. ~he was horn at Windham, Feb. 7, 1838; died at Pacific Grove, Jan. 8, 1907. He was educated at the public schools of his native place and Windham Academy. In 1856, before he became of age, he emigrated to Minne sota, where he pre-empted land and operated a steam saw mill. In 1860, he returned to Ohio, where he married and spent the first ten years of his married life as a farmer at Windham. He removed -in 1871 to St. Peter, Minn., and lived subsequently at Mitchellville and Winterset, Iowa, his occupation being at first grain dealing and later [35] the lumber trade. He retired from active business in 1896 and a few years later removed to Pacific Grove, Calif. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church for many years and a founder of the Winterset Public Library. A biography of his grandfather, John Stoughton Strong, was written and published by him. He died suddenly, retain ing his mental and physical powers to the last. Mary Elizabeth Angell was a descendant of Thomas Angell, who came from England in 1631 in company with Roger Williams and with him was one of the founders of Providence, R. I. The line is: Mary Elizabeth 8, Joseph 7, Jason 6, Jason 5, Oliver 4, Hope 3, John 2, Thomas 1. Children, born at Windham: i. ALBERT, b. Oct. 27, 1861; married at Winterset, Iowa, Nov. 20, 1895, Effa May Lyons, daughter of David Wallace Lyons and Sarah Ann (Wallace). She was born near Hardin, Iowa, Aug. 1, 1865. He was educated at Mitchell Academy and Grinnell College (A. B. 1884); a newspaper publisher at Winterset, Iowa, and Emporia, Kansas, now retired and living at Fort Dodge, Iowa; is a Mason (32°), past presiding officer of Lodge, Chapter and Commandery; a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and Society Mayflower Descendants. She was educated at Cornell (Iowa) and Grinnell; her outside-of-home interests are in charities and civic improvement. The Lyons line of descent is: 1, William Lyons (1755-1849) of Scotch descent, came from the North of Ireland to Pennsylvania before 1776; soldier American Revolution, wounded at the battle of Fort Washing ton and carried the bullet in his body ever afterward. 2, John (1794- 1875), soldier War of 1812; Elder Presbyterian church forty years. 3, David Wallace (1820-95), pioneer minister and organizer of churches in Iowa. 4, Effa May, above. Sarah Ann Wallace (1822-75), was the daughter of the Rev. William and Mary (McWilliams) Wallace, and the granddaughter of John Wallace, of Chester Co., Pa., a Revolutionary soldier. The principal home of the Lyons and Wallace families, after leaving Pennsylvania, was in Harrison Co., O. ii. EDWARD ANGELL, b. May 20, 1864, married at Minneapolis, Minn., June 17, 1902, Lucia Mabel Glidden, daughter of Calvin Selden Glidden and Olive (Steward). He graduated from Grinnell in 1885 and engaged in the line yard lumber business, principally at Minneapolis, his home for many years; now retired and has a winter home at San Marino, Calif. She was educated at Winona State Teachers College and the University of Minnesota. Her activity in civic and philanthropic work has led to membership in various organizations, local and national, devoted to those ends. One son, by adoption: i. SELDEN, b. Dec. 28, 1904, educated at Grinnell and University of Minnesota; engaged in aviation. Mrs. Lucia Glidden Strong has edited and published a genealogy of her paternal family, the Gliddens, a 400-page work, tracing the descendants of the immigrant ancestor, Charles Glidden, from 1660 to the present generation. Her line is through Richard 2, Charles 8, John 4, John 5, John 6, Calvin Selden 7. Her parents were natives of Maine and removed to northern Iowa. [36] iii. VmGINIA CoRNELI.A, b. Oct. 7, 1867, educated at Rockford College; resides at Pacific Grove, Calif. She is interested in benevolent and patriotic activities, is a student of good literature and has written verse of merit, which has been published, and shows a keen appreciaiion of nature. 5. SIDNEY STRONG (Warner, John Stoughton), born at Strongsville, June 12, 1839; died in North Carolina, June 30, 1885. He married in 1872 Mary Adeline Garlick, of Youngstown, 0. He graduated from Western Reserve College in 1863 at the head of his class, was tutor there for a year, studied law at Harvard and with lawyers of reputation at Norwalk and Columbus, 0., engaged in prac tice at Youngstown and became eminent in the profession. During the Civil War he served an enlistment in Co. B, 85th Ohio Infantry. His health failing, he vainly sought recuperation in California and later in North Carolina, where he remained until his death. His widow married (2) the Rev. D. H. Evans, of Youngstown. Children, born at Youngstown: i. JoHN, b. about 1874; d. at nine years of age. ii. CAROLINE, married Stanley Brown, of Cleveland; d. May 12, 1910, in young womanhood. 6. MARY ANN STRONG (Warner, John Stoughton), was born at Strongsville, May 8, 1841; died at Windham, 0., May 17, 1869. She married at Windham, Nov. 8, 1865, Thomas Olney Angell, son of Joseph and Cornelia (Arnold) Angell. He was born at Hopewell, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1835; died at Santa Monica, Calif., Nov. 6, 1908. He was a farmer and justice of the peace at Windham until shortly after 1900, when he removed to California, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a soldier of the Civil War in Co. I, 171st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Children, born at Windham: 10. i. JosEPH WARNER ANGELL, b. May 14, 1867. 11. ii. ERNEST SIDNEY ANGELL, h. March 28, 1869. 7. LEWIS HENRY STRONG (Warner Henry, Warner, John Stoughton), was born at Strongsville, Aug. 4, 1852; died June 20, 1926. He married, May 1885, Ellen M. Oberholtzer, born 1860, daugh ter of Abraham and Susan Oberholtzer, of Medina, 0. He was a far mer at Albion, Mich. Child: 12. i. JoHN STOUGHTON, b. at Strongsville, Nov. 29, 1890. [37] 8. WILLIAM WARNER STRONG (Warner Henry, Warner, John Stoughton) , was born at Strongsville, Dec. 28, 1858; died at Brunswick, 0., Sept. 18, 1918. He married Dec. 25, 1886, Ella B. Barry, born Jan. 28, 1867, daughter of George and Maria (Beadel) Barry, of Brunswick. He was a farmer and fruit grower at Bnmswick. She resides at Medina, 0. Child: 13. i. RALPH WILLIAM, b. at Brunswick, June 18, 1891. 9. HELEN LOUISE STRONG (Warner Henry, Warner, John Stoughton), was born at Strongsville, Aug. 9, 1860. She married (1) May 5, 1886, Raphael Barry, son of George and Maria (Beadel) Barry. He was born Jan. 1858, died Nov. 11, 1889, a farmer in his lifetime. They had a daughter, Camilla, b. Oct. 8, 1889, who died Jan. 16, 1890. On April 29, 1893, she married (2) Albert Eugene Aylard, son of William and Sopha (Barrett) Aylard. He was born Feb. 8, 1864; died Aug. 7, 1907, a contractor by occupation. She resides at 421 W. Washington street, Medina, 0. Child: i. CECIL STRONG A YLARD, b. July 29, 1901; he is assistant to the plant manager of the Farmers Co-operative Milk Co. at Cleveland. 10. JOSEPH WARNER ANGELL (Mary Ann, Warner, John Stoughton), was born at Windham, 0., May 14, 1867. He married Oct. 15, 1896, Helen Howard Jeffries, born March 30, 1868, daugh ter of Andrew Lemuel and Harriet Eliza (Howard) Jeffries, of Wooster, 0. He graduated (A. B.) from the College of Wooster in 1891; was in Y. M. C. A. and Student Volunteer Movement work for a time and in a responsible business situation at Chicago for six years. Since 1901 he has been a minister in the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., principally in Nebraska and Oregon. He is pastor of the Presbyterian church at Gold Beach, Ore., and stated clerk and treas urer of the Presbytery of Southwest Oregon, as he was previously of the Presbytery of Niobrara, Neb. She was educated at the College of Wooster (A. B. 1889 and Ph. D.), took post graduate work at Bryn Mawr and was a high school instructor at Warren and Salem, O. Children: 14. i. MARY STRONG ANGELL, b. at Chicago, Sept. 11, 1897. ii. JOHN HowARD ANGELL, b. at Pittsburgh, Pa., May 29, 1901; graduate of Occidental College at Los Angeles (B. A. 1923 and M. A.), taught in Oregon grade and high schools; is a teaching fellow in the University of California and engaged in post graduate study for Ph. D. in 1931, in preparation for college teaching. [38] iii. JOSEPH WARNER ANGELL, b. at Atkinson, Neb., May 29, 1908; grad uate (B. A. 1930) of College of Wooster, engaged in post gradu ate study in University of California for M. A. in 1931. 11. ERNEST SIDNEY ANGELL (Mary Ann, Warner, John Stoughton), born at Windham, 0., March 28, 1869, married Aug. 30, 1899, Margaret Evelena Sheffield, daughter of John W. and Bessie (Rogers) Sheffield. She was born at Sheffield Mills, Nova Scotia, March 10, 1875; died at Oakland, Calif., Jan. 4, 1911. He is a book keeper, residing at 2636 Thirteenth Ave., Oakland. John W. Sheffield was born in Nova Scotia, lived there about forty years, remoTed to California, where he resided for thirty-five years, principally at Oakland, and died in Nova Scotia, aged 85. Mrs. Sheffield is still (1930) living at Oakland, aged 90. Children, born at Oakland: 15. i. LEoLIA MARGARET ANGELL, b. June 28, 1901. ii. MYRLE ERNESTINE ANGELL, b. Feb. 12, 1905; d. at Los Angeles, May 13, 1923. Being left motherless when young, she was taken as a foster daughter by her cousin, Virginia C. Strong. iii. NORMAN SHEFFIELD ANGELL, b. Sept. 25, 1906; graduated from Uni versity of California in 1929, is a post graduate student and em ployed as an accountant there. 12. JOHN STOUGHTON STRONG (Lewis Henry, Warner Henry, Warner, John Stoughton), born at Strongsville, Nov. 29, 1890, married Dec. 27, 1922, Mary Louise Drake, born March 23, 1902, daughter of John L. and Aura Belle (Dickey) Drake, of Decatur, Ill. He is engaged in public utility and educational work at Chicago. Child: i. MARY ELLEN, b. at Madison, Wis., Oct. 18, 1823. 13. RALPH WILLIAM STRONG (William Warner, Warner Henry, Warner, John Stoughton), was born at Brunswick, 0., June 18, 1891. He married July 4, 1915, Hattie Atkins, born Feb. 24, 1895, daughter of John and Letta (Hecox) Atkins, of Medina, 0. He is at the head of the Farmers Co-operative Milk Association, at Cleveland, with residence at Brunswick. Children, horn at Brunswick~ i. EVYLIN, b. Sept. 24, 1918. ii. JEAN, b. Feb. 5, 1928. 14. MARY STRONG ANGELL (Joseph Warner Angell, Mary Ann, Warner, John Stoughton), born at Chicago, Sept. 11, 1897, mar ried June 21, 1929, Edwin George House, horn Aug. 14, 1896, son of Mathias George and Dolly Ann (Clarkson) House, of Valentine, Neb. [39] He is a salesman of appliances for operating oil wells, residing at 2626 Pine Place, South Gate, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles. She was educated at Hastings, Neb.~ College and Occidental, Los Angeles, from which she graduated. She was instructor for a year in the Sheldon Jackson School at Sitka, Alaska. Edwin G. House's grandfather was a cousin of Col. E. M. House, President Woodrow Wilson's mentor and adviser during the World War, and hie maternal grandmother was a Brainard, directly descended from David Brainard. She was born in Ohio and came to Kansas in the storied "covered wagon." The House family ie of Kentucky derivation. 15. LEOLIA MARGARET ANGELL (Ernest Sidney Angell, Mary Ann, Warner, John Stoughton), was born at Oakland, Calif., June 28, 1901. She married March 13, 1920, Charles Orson Horton, born Dec. 8, 1896, son of Horace A. and Joanna (Sharai) Horton, of Oak land, formerly of Minnesota. He is an artist at Oakland, where they reside. [40] FRANKLIN STRONG, fourth son of John Stoughton Strong, was born at Marlboro, Vt., Feb. 23, 1807; -died at Brattleboro, Vt., Feb. 5, 1853. He married Nov. 10, 1832, Betsey Ann Brainard, daughter of Asa and Abigail (Fuller) Brainard, of Brooklyn, 0. She was born at East Haddam, Conn., Aug. 12, 1810; died at Strongsville in 1887. He was educated at Strongs ville Academy and Western Reserve College, taught school for a time and became a farmer at Strongsville. He was commissioned captain in the state militia which then met twice a year for training. His wife survived him, a widow for thirty-four years. Children: 2. i. GEORGE BRAINARD, b. Sept. 2, 1835. ii. JoNAS WHITNEY, b. May 16, 1839; d. Jan. 26, 1861. 3. iii. LORENZO, b. May 29, 1842. iv. MARY DELIA, b. Feb. 24, 1844; d. May 27, 1865. 2. GEORGE BRAINARD STRONG (Franklin, John Stoughton), was born Sept. 2, 1835; died Feb. 2, 1930. He married (1) Sept. 2, 1857, Charlotte Maria Pitkin, daughter of Richard and Delight (Miller) Pitkin, of Brunswick, 0. She died in April, 1895, and he married (2) in 1897, Hattie Aylard, of Brunswick, now deceased. He was a farmer and fruit grower at Strongsville, inhabiting what is known as "Stone Hill," an old family possession. His death removed much the oldest member of his generation. Child: i. IDA MAY, b. May 11, 1860, who m. Daniel B. Freese. She d. July 9, 1924. 3. LORENZO STRONG (Franklin, John Stoughton), was born at Strongsville, May 29, 1842; died there Sept. 18, 1907. He married May 9, 1867, Lois Austin, born April 23, 1846, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (French) Austin, of Royalton, 0. He attended the dis trict school and academy at Strongsville and a term at Baldwin Univer sity. As a soldier of the Civil War he served in the 86th and 150th Ohio regiments, the latter of which received from President Lincoln a certificate of thanks for efficient service. He received a commission as lieutenant, and later captain, in the Ohio State Militia. He was a farmer at Strongsville, occupying the original farm of his father. [41] Children: i. FRANKLIN EuGENE. b. May 11, 1868, a farmer at Strongsville, un• married. ii. CHARLES JoNAS, b. Nov. 22, 1869, a painter at Cleveland, unmarried. 4. iii. FRED AUSTIN, b. Aug. 10, 1871. 5. iv. MABEL MARY, b. Dec. 7, 1876. 6. v. HARLEY LORENZO, b. Feb. 23, 1878. 7. vi. CELIA L01s, b. Jan. 3, 1885. 4. FRED AUSTIN STRONG (Lorenzo, Franklin, John Stough ton), born Aug. 10, 1871, married April 16, 1898, Pearl Lewis, born Jan. 19, 1878, daughter of David P. and Margaret (Jones) Lewis, of Sharon, Pa. He is a school custodian at Cleveland. Children: i. VIOLA, b. Jan. 6, 1900, is married and has a son, Eric, horn Nov. 6, 1928. ii. MARGARET, b. April 16, 1914. 5. MABEL MARY STRONG (Lorenzo, Franklin, John StoughQ ton), born Dec. 7, 1876, married Oct. 21, 1903, Charles Horne Wil kins, born Oct. 25, 1867, son of Henry and Lucilla (Horne) Wilkins, of Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire, England. He is a musician, residing at Sylvania, 0., a suburb of Toledo. Children: i. Lots LucILLA WILKINS, b. Sept. 15, 1909. ii. AUSTIN STRONG WILKINS, b. Sept. 2, 1915. 6. HARLEY LORENZO STRONG (Lorenzo, Franklin, John Stoughton), horn Feb. 23, 1878, married Nellie Platt-Goodsell, born Nov. 10, 1873, daughter of James E. and Mary I. (Roller) Platt, of Warren, 0. He is a printer, residing at Cleveland. Child, (by a former marriage, whose mother's maiden name was Florence Schesler, of Rosemont, 0.): i. EDGAR LEROY, b. May 16, 1911. 7. CELIA LOIS STRONG (Lorenzo, Franklin, John Stoughton), born Jan. 3, 1885, married June 28, 1906, Glenn Aldis Randall, born Aug. 20, 1883, son of John H. and Sophia (Clement) Randall, of Brunswick, 0. He is president of the Watt-Randall Printing Co., at Cleveland. Children: i. GoRDON RANDALL, b. Dec. 12, 1907. ii VmGINIA RANDALL, b. March 18, 1917. [42] CLARK ROSS STRONG, fifth son of John Stoughton Strong, was born at Marlboro, Vt., Dec. 20, 1808; died at Kankakee, Ill., Aug. 3, 1856. He married ( 1) June 6, 1832, Lydia Stevens, daughter of William Pitt and Lydia (Deming) Stevens, of Brunswick, 0. She was born July 4, 1810; died Jan. 4, 1854. On June 12, 1855, he married (2) Sylvia (Sadd) Marsh, widow, daughter of Harvey and Lydia (Merrill) Sadd, of Austinhurgh, 0. She was born Feb. 28, 1814; after his death she resided at Geneva, Ohio. His early boyhood was spent in Vermont. At the age of nine he accompanied his parents to Ohio and until 1853, except for a year spent in Michigan, he lived at Strongsville, where he was a farmer, owning a considerable acreage. He then removed to Kankakee, where he kept a general store, besides operating a large farm and dealing in live stock. He was one of the founders of the Congregational church at Kankakee. Children, born at Strongsville: i. WATSON ORLANDO, b. May 15, 1833; d. June 16, 1833. 2. ii. EMoRY MARTIN, b. May 4, 1834. 3. iii. WILLIAM STOUGHTON, b. May 6, 1836. iv. LAVINIA MATILDA, h. July 15, 1838; d. Feb. 9, 1861. v. RENDA ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 17, 184-0; d. Sept. 4, 1862, at Chainpaign, Ill. She married Dec. 25, 1860, Harry Swannell, a druggist at Champaign. vi. JULIA MARIA, b. April 28, 1843; d. Aug. 10, 1854, at Kankakee. 4. vii. DEWEY WHITNEY, b. July 28, 1848. viii. EowIN CLARK, h. Aug. 13, 1851; d. June 27, 1852. ix. CLARA JANE (twin), b. Aug. 13, 1851; d. July 3, 1852. 2. EMORY MARTIN STRONG (Clark Ross, John Stoughton), was born at Strongsville, May 4, 1834, and married Nov. 12, 1856, Tamson Amelia Dowd, born June 16, 1833, daughter of David Dud ley and Mary (Harris) Dowd, of Seville, 0. He was a liveryman at Cleveland. Children: 5. i. EDWIN Cr.ARK, b. Nov. 4, 1858, m. ---- (see No. 5 for sec ond marriage) . Children: [43] 1. CREssrE (Mrs. Batdorf), resides at Medina, 0. 2. MYRTA, m. Nov. 30, 1911, E. C. Potter. They reside at mont, Colo. One daughter: MAY EDWINA POTIER, h. Sept. 18, 1912. ii. MATTIE HENRIETTE, h. Nov. 21, 1863; d. May 15, 1865. 6. iii. DUDLEY Dowo, b. Oct. 22, 1865. 3. WILLIAM STOUGHTON STRONG (Clark Ross, John Stough ton), was born at Strongsville, May 6, 1836; died at Genoa, Ill., March 23, 1910. He married Sept. 11, 1862, at Cleveland, Harriet Tompkins, daughter of Humphrey and Mary (Short) Tompkins, of Royalton, 0. She was born Oct. 16, 1841; died May 5, 1900. He was a farmer and stock raiser at Genoa. During his later years he spent his winters in the south. Children: i. HARRISON STANLEY, b. March 28, 1864; d. Aug. 12, 1864. 7. ii. WALTER LA RuE, b. Oct. 10, 1865. iii CARRIE ELSIE, b. Aug. 30, 1868; d. April 14, 1893. iv. CLARK Ross, b. Dec. 3, 1871; m. June 28, 1902, Martha Saunders, h. Jan. 22, 1872, daughter of John and Lydia (McGray) Saunders, of Elgin, Ill. He is a farm.er at Happy, Texas. v. NELLIE SYLVIA, b. Nov. 6, 1873; m. Nov. 18, 1908, William Reid; resides at Genoa, Ill. vi. JESSIE MAY, b. May 5, 1878; d. March 28, 1893. vii. EMORY WILBUR, b. Sept. 14, 1880; d. Dec. 29, 1881. 4. DEWEY WHITNEY STRONG (Clark Ross, John Stoughton), was born July 28, 1848; died Jan. 18, 1923. He married June 30, 1872, Nancy Rosenborough. He was a merchant at Brighton, Colo. Child: ' 8. i. ARTHUR JAMES, b. Feb. 28, 1879. 5. EDWIN CLARK STRONG (Emory Martin, Clark Ross, John Stoughton), born Nov. 4, 1858, married (2) Dec. 19, 1900, Emma Berglund, daughter of Andrus and Elizabeth Berglund. She was horn in Sweden, May 4, 1872. They reside at Boring, Ore., where he is a farmer, specializing in bulbs, flowers and fruits. Children: 9. i. CLARK Ross, b. at Seattle, Wash., Aug. 3, 1901. ii. EMORY MARTIN, b. at Vancouver, Wash., Dec. 17, 1903. iii. THEODORE ANDRUS, b. at Vancouver, Dec. 6, --. 10. iv. ALICE TAMSON, b. at Vancouver, June 14, 1908. 11. v. Avis MAY, b. Boring, Ore., Feb. 6, 1910. vi. DAVID WHITNEY, h. at Boring, March 5, 1913. vii. SIDNEY EDWIN, b. at Boring, March 12, 1915. viii. GEORGE DEWEY, h. at Boring, May 1, 1916. [44] 6. DUDLEY DOWD STRONG (Emory Martin, Clark Ross, John Stoughton), was born Oct. 22, 1865; died June 1, 1911. He married June 20, 1889, Mary Elizabeth Munselle. Children: i. HowARD SHERMAN, b. April 16, 1890, married June 12, 1925, Anna Nilson; resides at Denver, Colo. ii. HAROLD PARKER, h. Oct. 11, 1891, married Feb. 2, 1924, Lela Mulli hill; resides at Denver. 7. WALTER LA RUE STRONG (William Stoughton, Clark Ross, John Stoughton), was ·born Oct. 10, 1865; died Aug. 11, 1924. He married Nov. 11, 1888, Sarah Whipple, born March 21, 1862, daugh ter of Thomas "Whipple and Rhoby Horton (Bancroft), of Roscoe, Ill. He was a farmer at Fairmont, Minn. Children: 12. i. ETHEL MAY, b. Aug. 30, 1889. 13. ii. THOMAS LAVERNE, b. May 2, 1896. 14. iii. Cr.Arn FOREST, b. Aug. 25, 1898. 8. ARTHUR JAMES STRONG (Dewey "Whitney, Clark Ross, John Stoughton), born Feb. 28, 1879, married Sept. 30, 1908, Daisy Irene Potter. Child: i. SHELDON ARTHUR, b. Sept. 24, 1911. 9. CLARK ROSS STRONG (Edwin Clark, Emory Martin, Clark Ross, John Stoughton), born at Seattle, Wash., Aug. 3, 1901, married June 1, 1925, Marion Avis Van Hook, born May 29, 1907. She is the daughter of M. C. and Mae (Brown) Van Hook, of Portland, Ore. He is a mechanic, residing at Portland. Child: i. Cr.ARK Ross, JR., b. at Portland, Aug. 11, 1930. 10. ALICE TAMSON STRONG (Edwin Clark, Emory Martin, Clark Ross, John Stoughton), born at Vancouver, Wash., June 14, 1908, married July 16, 1930, George W. Hatfield, born July 16, 1909, the son of Norton W. Hatfield, of Anaheim, Calif. His mother's maiden name was Hattie Kamiski, originally of Burlington, Iowa. He is an engineer at San Diego, Calif. 11. AVIS MAY STRONG (Edwin Clark, Emory Martin, Clark Ross, John Stoughton), born at Boring, Ore., Feb. 6, 1910, married Aug. 11, 1930, Harold James Botts, born Aug. 29, 1903, son of Mil [45] ton S. and Alie Lavella (Huckaby) Botts, of Greenridge, Mo. He is a packer at Los Angeles, Calif. 12. ETHEL MAY STRONG (Walter La Rue, William Stoughton, Clark Ross, John Stoughton), born Aug. 30, 1889, married June 10, 1914, Irvin Ira Smith, who was born Aug. 24, 1887, at La Porte City, Iowa, the son of George Wolf Smith and Marietta (Wood), of Worth ington, Minn. He is an orchardist at Wenatchee, Wash., (R. F. D. No. 3.). Child: i. VERNAL LA RuE SMITH, b. June 2, 1916. 13. THOMAS LAVERNE STRONG (Walter La Rue, William Stoughton, Clark Ross, John Stoughton), born May 2, 1896, married Nov. 29, 1921, Marie Augusta Schroeder, born April 29, 1902, daugh ter of Fred and Augusta (Kroll) Schroeder, of Fairmont, Minn. He is a farmer at Armstrong, Iowa. Children: i. MAv1s Aro.ENE, b. Oct. 11, 1922. ii. LYLE STOUGHTON, b. Aug. 4, 1924. iii. EUGENE LA VERNE, b. July 16, 1926. 14. CLAIR FOREST STRONG (Walter La Rue, William Stough ton, Clark Ross, John Stoughton), born Aug. 25, 1898, married Nellie Amelia Lund, born Feb. 17, 1899, daughter of Frank and Annie (Olson) Lund, of Lismore, Minn. He is a farmer at Armstrong, Iowa. Children: i. ALLEN RAY, b. Aug. 5, 1919. ii. ANNA LUELLA, b. Oct. 5, 1921. iii. MALEN LARUE, b. Oct. 12, 1925. iv. Lois MAY, b. May 21, 1928. L46] LOVINIA STRONG, third daughter of John Stoughton Strong, was born at Marlboro, Vt., Sept. 19, 1812; died April 26, 1837. She married June 20, 1833, Jabe-L Lyman Burrell, son of Jabez and Mary (Robbins) Burrell, of Shef field, 0. He w'as born at Sheffield, Mass., Oct. 1, 1806; died at Oberlin, March, 1900. He married (2) Jane Strong, (3) Lydia Cal lahan. By his second marriage he had a daughter, Lovinia, an invalid, long since deceased, and a son, Herman, who was drowned at Oberlin in boyhood, while skating, it is said. (See page 34). Her name is spelled "Levinia." on a. sampler which she worked at ten years of age. In the family bible it is Lovinia, as above. Several nieces and grand nieces to whom the name passed prefer to spell it Lavinia. Children: 2. L MARTIN STRONG BURRELL, b. Nov. 23, 1834. ii. JOHN STOUGHTON BURRELL, b. Nov. 3, 1836; d. Jan. 21, 1837. 2. MARTIN STRONG BURRELL (Lovinia, John Stoughton), was born Nov. 23, 1834; died at Portland, Ore., April 12, 1885. He married Jan. 7, 1862, Rosetta Frazar, daughter of Thomas Frazar, of Portland, and Frances Ann Adams Bradford, both originally of Dux bury, Mass. She was born Sept. 13, 1842; died April 8, 1903. He removed from Ohio to Portland, where he became a merchant and amassed a fortune. Children, born at Portland ( except iii.) : 3. i WALTER FRAZAR BURRELL, b. Feb. 13, 1863. ii. FRANCES LAVINIA BURRELL, h. Oct. 25, 1867; d. Dec. 30, 1867. iii. HERMAN JABEZ BURRELL, b. at Oberlin, March 8, 1869; d. June 5, 1899. 4. iv. HELEN STRONG BURRELL, b. Sept. 12, 1871. 5. v. MARGARET ALDEN BURRELL, b. Aug. 27, 1876. (Frances Ann Adams Bradford was a direct descendant of Gov. William Bradford, of Plymouth; therefore the children of Martin Burrell have a line of Mayflower descent through their mother, in addition to the one on their father's side, possessed also by all members of this branch of the Strong family) . 3. WALTER FRAZAR BURRELL (Martin Strong, Lovinia, John Stoughton), born at Portland, Feb. 13, 1863, married Oct. 1, 1895, Constance Montgomery, born Oct. 7, 1876, daughter of James Boyce and Mary (Phelps) Montgomery, of Portland. He lives in Portland. Children, born at Portland: [47] i. ALDEN FRAZAR BURRELL, b. OcL 7, 1896. 6. ii. LomsE BURRELL, b. Dec. 7, 1897. iii. DouGLAS MONTGOMERY BURRELL. b. Aug. 18, 1900. iv. ROBERT MONTGOMERY BURRELL, b. Nov. 18, 1906; d. July 7, 1919. v. VIRGINIA BURRELL, b. Dec. 21, 1907. 4. HELEN STRONG BURRELL (Martin Strong, Lavinia, John Stoughton), horn Sept. 12, 1871, at Portland, married Sept. 14, 1893, Gordon Voorhies, son of Charles Howard and Nancy Griffith (Brand) Voorhies, of Lexington, Ky. He was born at Lexington, Nov. 30, 1868, graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, hut re signed from the army in 1897. He volunteered for service in the Spanish-American war, from which he came out with impaired health, hut on the outbreak of the World War again volunteered, saw active service in France and was mustered out with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is now an orchardist, residing near Medford, Ore. Children: i. MARGARET VOORHIES, b. at Portland, June 5, 1894. ii. MARIAN HART VooRHIES, b. at Fort Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 26, 1896, married March 29, 1930, Sprague Riegel, b. at Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1884. iii. GORDON VooRHIES, b. at Seaside, Ore., Aug. 4, 1898; d. Sept. 26, 1928. iv. CHARLES HowARD VOORHIES, h. at Portland, Sept. 22, 1901. 5. MARGARET ALDEN BURRELL (Martin Strong, Lavinia, John Stoughton), horn at Portland, Aug. 27, 1876, married Dec. 22, 1897, Lt. William Shepard Biddle, of the U. S. Army (resigned). He was born at Grosse Ile, Mich., May 14, 1863, the son of William Shepard and Susan Dayton (Ogden) Biddle. She resides at 3 Vine Lane, Berkeley, Calif. Children: 7. i. l.\1:ARGARET ALDEN BIDDLE, h. at Portland, Nov. 8, 1898. ii. WILLIAM SHEPARD BIDDLE, b. at Fort Wayne, Mich., Oct. 1, 1900. iii. l.\1:ARTIN BURRELL BIDDLE, b. at Fort Wayne, Feb. 3, 1902. 6. LOUISE BURRELL (Walter Frazar, Martin Strong, Lovinia, John Stoughton), horn at Portland, Dec. 7, 1897, married July 3, 1918, Crosby Hall Shevlin, born Nov. 7, 1887, son of Edwin Charles and Harriet (Hall) Shevlin, of Portland. He is in the lwnher industry, residing at Bend, Ore. They have an adopted daughter: i. CYNTHIA SHEVLIN, b. Aug. 1928. 7. MARGARET ALDEN BIDDLE (Margaret Alden, Martin Strong, Lovinia, John Stoughton), born at Portland, Nov. 8, 1898, [48] married Sept. 5, 1923, Jamieson Parker, born at Portland, Jan. 28, 1895, son of Horatio H. Parker, of Portland, born in England, and Charlotte Taylor (Boykin), born in Alabama. He is an architect at Portland. Children, born at Portland: i. ANNE DARRINGTON PARKER, b. Aug. 16, 1924. ii. ELIZABETH BURRELL PARKER, h. May 6, 1926. iii. THOMAS WYATT BIDDLE PARKER, b. Nov. 14, 1929. JOHN CHIPMAN STRONG, sixth son of John Stoughton Strong, was born at Marlboro, Vt., June 15, 1815; died at Strongsville, ( the date of his decease does not seem to be on record). He married (1) June 5, 1837, Harriet Elizabeth White, daughter of William and Betsey (House) White, of Albion, Mich. She was born July 7, 1817; died Jan. 17, 1853. He married (2) Dec. 1, 1853, Harriet Eliza Strong, born April 29, 1832, daughter of Retire G. and Vina (Whitney) Strong, of Strongsville. He was a farmer and stock grower at Strongsville, occupying a farm at the edge of the village. It will be seen that his line is now extinct. His widow married (2) Edward Hichens Reed, of Strongsville. Mr. Reed had a daughter, Florence, by a former marriage, who became the wife of H.K. W. Stebbins, of Youngstown, 0. Children: i. SARAH FITCH, b. July 25, 1838; d. Sept. 4, 1840. ii. ORLANDO WHITE, b. May 27, 1842; d. Aug. 4, 1842. iii. CHARLES HAMLIN, b. April 13, 1843; d. Jan. 14, 1853. iv. HARLAND BENJAMIN, b. April 28, 1845, deceased; he was a farmer at Strongsville. v. L£wis BAXTER, b. Nov. 28, 1849; d. April 12, 1850. [49] LYMAN WHITNEY STRONG, eighth son of John Stoughton Strong, was born at Marlboro, Vt., March 21, 1817; died at Seville, 0., Dec. 3, 1881. He married at Seville, Dec. 7, 1843, Ruth Maria Dix, daughter of John Childs and Huldah (Porter) Dix, of Guilford, 0. She was born April 22, 1827; died Sept. 17, 1865. He was brought to Strongsville in 1818, an infant in his mother's arms, grew up there, studied at Western Reserve College and removed in 1840 to Seville, where he was a merchant for many years. He was of very positive temperance and anti-slavery convictions and respected for integrity in all his dealings. Children, born at Seville: i. ARTHUR TAPPAN, b. May 29, 1845; d. at Ashland, Ky., Feb. 28, 1862. At the breaking out of the Civil War he enlisted at the age of sixteen in the 42nd Ohio Regt., under Col. (afterwards President) Garfield, and died in service. 2. ii. LYMAN WHITNEY, b. Sept. 22, 1849. 3. iii. TIMOTHY Dowo, b. Sept. 23, 1851. 4. iv. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 13, 1854. , 5. v. CHARLES SUMNER, b. July 25, 1856. 6. vi. SIDNEY Dix, b. Jan. 25, 1860. 2. LYMAN WHITNEY STRONG (Lyman Whitney, John Stough ton), was born at Seville, Sept. 22, 1849; died there Oct. 10, 1914. He married Oct. 4, 1872, Harriet Martin, born Nov. 17, 1853, daughter of Thomas Storrs Martin, born June 13, 1826, in Washington Co., Pa., and Mahala Jane (Lance), born June 15, 1826, in Wayne Co., 0. Children: 7. i. LOVINIA MARTIN, b. July 6, 1873. 8. ii. FRANCIS ADELBERT, b. Sept. 13, 1874. iii. HATTIE EvILLA, b. Nov. 14, 1876; d. Dec. 24, 1894. 3. TIMOTHY DOWD STRONG (Lyman Whitney, John Stough ton), born at Seville, Sept. 23, 1851, married Oct. 1, 1872, Lodieska S. Dailey, born Nov. 15, 1851, daughter of Hiram and Mary Ann (Graves) Dailey. He resides at Bowling Green, 0., and most of his descendants live there or at Toledo. Children: i ARTHUR DAILEY, b. Sept. 28, 1873; d. 1899. 9. ii. MARY RUTH, h. April 27, 1876. [SO] 10. iii. CARROLL STOUGHTON, b. Jan. 23, 1883. 11. iv. LYMAN TIMOTHY, b. April 10, 1888. 12. v. GRACE LoDIESKA (twin), b. April 10, 1888. Hiram Dailey was born Feb. 20, 1816, in Summit Co., 0., and died March 18, 1898. Mary Ann Graves was born Jan. 29, 1827, at Lockport, N. Y.; died Feb. 15, 1915. Both died at Seville. 4. SARAH ELIZABETH STRONG (Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), was born at Seville, Aug. 13, 1854; died at Toledo, 0., July 17, 1914. She married Adelbert Lorenzo Spitzer, born Aug. 15, 1852, a banker at Toledo. Children: 13. i. CARL BOVEE SPITZER, b. Feb. 7, 1877. 14. ii. LYMAN STRONG SPITZER, b. Feb. 2, 1880. 15. iii. LUETTE RUTH SPITZER, b. Mar. 14, 1882. 16. iv. ROLAND ADELBERT SPITZER, b. Sept. 21, 1885l 5. CHARLES SUMNER STRONG (Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), was born at Seville, July 25, 1856; died Dec. 13, 1909. He married at Plymouth, 0., May 27, 1890, Harriet Huldah Neifer, born May 23, 1870, at Weston, 0., daughter of Amos Meyer Neifer and Florence S. (Barrett). He was a banker by occupation. She mar ried (2) Dec. 18, 1912, Joseph Henry Addy, of Weston, 0. Amos Meyer Neifer was born Nov. 17, 1844, at Lancaster, Pa., of German descent, and died Dec. 31, 1928. Florence S. Barrett was born May 4, 1847; died Dec. 15, 1925. They were residents of Weston, 0. 6. SIDNEY DIX STRONG (Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born at Seville, 0., Jan. 25, 1860, married Nov. 20, 1884, Ruth Maria Tracy, daughter of Frederick E. and Anna (Lord) Tracy, of Mans field, 0. She was born at Mansfield, Dec. 25, 1862; died on the Mediterranean sea, Oct. 11, 1903, returning on an American Board commission from South Africa. He was educated at Oberlin an i. ANNA LoursE, b. November 24, 1885, educated at Byrn Mawr, Oberlin and Chicago University; is an author and lecturer and an exten sive traveler in China, Central Asia, Mongolia and Japan; has been for seven years in Russia. [51] 17. iL TRACY, b. Aug. 6, 1887. 18. iii. RUTH MARIA, b. July 24, 1890. 7. LOVINIA MARTIN STRONG (Lyman Whitney, Lyman Whit ney, John Stoughton), born July 6, 1873, married at Seville, Jan. 1, 1895, Fred Taylor, son of Theron and Amy (Crawford) Taylor. Theron Taylor was born at Seville, July 22, 1848; died Sept. 29, 1928. Amy Craw ford was born at Guilford, O., July 22, 1844; died March 8, 1913. They were married Nov. 26, 1868, and had two sons, Fred and Delvis. Children: 19. i. ANDREW WHITNEY TAYLOR, b. July 9, 1896. 20. iL FRANCIS ALLEN TAYLOR, b. Jan. 9, 1898. 21. iii. LYMAN STRONG TAYLOR, b. Feb. 15, 1905. iv. HELEN LovINIA TAYLOR, b. April 8, 1909. 8. FRANCIS ADELBERT STRONG (Lyman Whitney, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born Sept. 13, 1874, married Dec. 25, 1895, Fannie Fern Kindig, daughter of Martin 0. Kindig and Alseta Hyd (Fretig). Martin 0. Kindig was born Feb. 18, 1844 in Medina Co., O. ; married June 12, 1864, Alseta Hyd Fretig, and died Dee. 20, 1920. She died Nov. 11, 1881. They had five children, born 1866-1876: :Millie Maud, Jane Adele, Laura :May, Fannie Fern and :Mark Monroe. Child: i. (A daughter) , d. in infancy. 9. MARY RUTH STRONG (Timothy Dowd, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born April 27, 1876, married April 27, 1899, Er win Alfred Black, son of Robert Black, born Nov. 5, 1846, in Seneca Co., 0., and Lourana (Haines), born July 13, 1848, both of whom are deceased. Children: 22. i. PAUL ERWIN BLACK, b. Feb. 4, 1900. 23. ii. ROLAND LYMAN BLACK, b. March 18, 1903. 10. CARROLL STOUGHTON STRONG (Timothy Dowd, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born Jan. 23, 1883, married June 19, 1909, Clara Cook. She is the daughter of Samuel Jefferson Cook, born Feb. 1, 1852, at Oregonia, 0., and Alma Jennings (Williams), born June 22, 1865, at Lafayette, Ind. Children: i. HELEN GRACE, b. April 1, 1911. ii. CARROLL EDWIN, b. April 7, 1913. 11. LYMAN TIMOTHY STRONG (Timothy Dowd, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born at Tecumseh, Mich., April 10, 1888, [52] married July 8, 1927, Edith Josephine Simmons, daughter of Albert Simmons, born Oct. 1862, at Vanedorio, 0., and Fannie May (Priddy), born Aug. 1862, at Middleport, 0. Children: i. LYMAN, JR., b. June 5, 1928. ii. JAMES WILLIAM, b. Sept. 20, 1929. 12. GRACE LODIESKA STRONG (Timothy Dowd, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born April 10, 1888, married Oct. 12, 1910, William Claire Dohaney, born Aug. 14, 1887. He is the son of Martin Luther Dohaney, born at Taylortown, Conn., Sept. 22, 1847, died April 1, 1927, and Frances E., born at Cannonsburg, Pa., Oct. 17, 1852, died Jan. 11, 1923. Both died at Bowling Green. 13. CARL BOVEE SPITZER (Sarah Elizabeth, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born Feb. 7, 1877, married Sept. 14, 1904, Edna Brown, born Oct. 26, 1880. She is the daughter of Calvin S. Brown, born at Bentonsport, Iowa, April 17, 1845, and Jane (Fleetwood), born at Auburn, N. Y., Jan. 9, 1852; died Feb. 22, 1912. He is a grad uate of Yale; a banker at Toledo. Children: i. ADELBERT LORENZO SPITZER, b. Mar. 24, 1906; d. Dec. 9, 1910. ii. JANE FLEETWOOD SPITZER, b. Aug. 23, 1907. iii. NANCY BovEE SPITZER, b. Oct. 7, 1909. iv. SUZANNE SPITZER, b. Nov. 9, 1911. v. SARAH ELIZABETH SPITZER, b. May 16, 1915. 14. LYMAN STRONG SPITZER (Sarah Elizabeth, Lyman Whit ney, John Stoughton), born Feb. 2, 1880, married Blanche Brum back, born March 4, 1886, daughter of 0. S. Brumback, born Dec. 2, 1854, and Jennie (Carey), born Oct. 15, 1859, at Indianapolis, Ind. He graduated at Yale and is a manufacturer at Toledo. Children: i. LYDIA CAREY SPITZER, b. Oct. 7, 1909. ii. LUETTE RUTH SPITZER, b. July 26, 1911. iii. LYMAN SPITZER, JR., b. June 26, 1914. iv. JOHN BRUMBACK SPITZER, h. March 6, 1918. 15. LUETTE RUTH SPITZER (Sarah Elizabeth, Lyman Whit ney, John Stoughton), born March 14, 1882, married Nov. 9, 1904, Thomas Pim Goodbody, of Dublin, Ireland, son of Robert Goodbody, born 1851, and Isabella S. Pim, born 1854, both at Clare, Ireland. Children: [53] i. HAROLD PIM GooDBODY, b. Sept. 26, 1905. ii. LYMAN SPITZER GooDBODY, h. March 12, 1908. iii. THOMAS PIM GooDBODY, b. Aug. 23, 1909. iv. GARRETT GooDBODY, b. July 4, 1911. v. LUETIE GoooBODY, b. June 13, 1927. 16. ROLAND ADELBERT SPITZER (Sarah Elizabeth, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), was born Sept. 21, 1885; died May 1916. He married June 1911, Natalie Reynolds. She is the daughter of Frederick Jesse Reynolds, horn Aug. 25, 1857, at Jackson, Mich., and Ida (Stone), born Oct. 14, 1861, at New York City and died Feb. 12, 1915, in California. Children: i. ROLAND ADELBERT SPITZER, b. June 14, 1912. ii. FREDERICK REYNOLDS SPITZER, b. March, 1916. 17. TRACY STRONG (Sidney Dix, Lyman Whitney, John Stough ton), born Aug. 6, 1887, married June 10, 1910, Edith Robbins, daugh ter of Lewis Henry and Mary Adelaide (Stacy) Robbins, of McCool, Ind. He graduated at Oberlin; is on the World's Committee Y. M. C. A., with residence at Geneva, Switzerland. She is also an Oberlin graduate. Lewis Henry Robbins was born in Porter Co., Ind., May 17, 1853, died Feb. 2, 1918. He was son of Samuel Putnam Robbins, born a.t Springfield, Mass., March 26, 1819, died April 8, 1889, a.nd Caroline (Coe), born in Athens Co., 0., Sept. 6, 1815, died Oct. 19, 1898. Mary Adelaide Stacy was born Sept. 3, 1853, in Ward Twp., Hocking Co., O •• being the daughter of Samuel I. Stacy, born in Athens Co., 0., Dec. 28, 1813, died at McCool, Ind., Aug. 10, 1889, and Sophia J. (Camp), born in Athens Co., O., Nov. 3, 1830, died there July 11, 1905. Children: i. ROBBINS, h. Nov. 24, 1912. ii. TRACY, JR., b. Sept. 12, 1915. iii. RUTH ADELAIDE, b. Aug. 24, 1918. 18. RUTH MARIA STRONG (Sidney Dix, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), horn July 24, 1890, educated at Oberlin, married June 25, 1912, Charles Howard Niederhauser, born at Canton, 0., Aug. 6, 1887. He is a graduate of Oberlin and is Dean of Boys, Piedmont High School, Oakland, Calif. Children: i. RUTH LOUISE NIEDERHAUSER, h. July Z7, 1913. ii. JoHN STRONG NIEDERHAUSER, b. Sept. 27, 1916. iii. SYDNEY NIEDERHAUSER, b. Aug. 24, 1918. [54] 19. ANDREW WHITNEY TAYLOR (Lovinia Martin, Lyman Whitney, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born July 9, 1896, mar ried June 26, 1924, Helen Ramsey. Children: i. Ro BERT RAMSEY TAYLOR, b. March 25, 1925. ii. MARJORIE ANN TAYLOR, b. Aug. 13, 1926. iii. MARILYN JEAN TAYLOR, b. March 10, 1928. 20. FRANCIS ALLEN TAYLOR (Lovinia Martin, Lyman Whit ney, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born Jan. 9, 1898, married Feb. 11, 1919, Bessie Cook. Children: i. NANCY EVELYN TAYLOR, b. Jan. 2, 1923. ii. HARRIET ELAINE TAYLOR, b. Sept. 1924. 21. LYMAN STRONG TAYLOR (Lovinia Martin, Lyman Whit ney, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born Feb. 15, 1905, married Sept. 18, 1926, Lavada Eaken. 22. PAUL ERWIN BLACK (Mary Ruth, Timothy Dowd, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born Feb. 4, 1900, married Sept. 24, 1923, Mildred Blacketer, born at Cameron, Mo., March 14, 1902, daughter of Harrison and Martha Jane (Smith) Blacketer. Harrison Blacketer was born April 21, 1849, in Indiana; a Civil War veteran of Co. H., 12th :Missouri Cavalry. Martha Jane Smith was born at Quincy, Iowa, June 26, 1869. Child: i. MARTHA Lou BLACK, b. Sept. 27, 1927. 23. ROLAND LYMAN BLACK (Mary Ruth, Timothy Dowd, Lyman Whitney, John Stoughton), born March .18, 1903, married Feb. 28, 1923, Martha H. Wachter, born Dec. 10, 1905. She is the daughter of Harvey Coy Wachter, born at Toledo, 0., Sept. 19, 1880, and Hazel Dell (Moorman), born at Saginaw, Mich., April 16, 1881. Children: i. JAMES ERWIN BLACK, b. Nov. 15, 1923. ii. LYMAN TIMOTHY BLACK, b. June 13, 1925. iii. MARGARET BLACK, b. Sept. 22, 1926. [55] JOHN STOUGHTON STRONG, JR., eighth son of John Stoughton Strong, the founder of Strongsville, was born at Strongsville, June 29, 1820; died at Tecumseh, Mich., May 6, 1906. He was the only one of his parents' children born in Ohio, all the others having been natives of Vermont. He married May 18, 1846, Delia Alden Baldwin, daughter of William and Delia (Alden) Bald win, of Tecumseh. She was born at Strongsville, Jan. 9, 1825; died Aug. 26, 1907. He attended school in his native village and graduated from Western Reserve College in 1843, after which he lived at Seville for a time, followed by short periods of residence at Strongsville and Tecumseh. He next went to the south and after sojourning in Tennes see and Alabama, finally returned to make Tecumseh his permanent home. During a successful business life his interests were diversified, including farming, hardware, clothing, insurance and banking. His particular penchant was music; until seventy years of age he was chorister of the Presbyterian church of Tecumseh, of which he was an elder. Dr. William Baldwin. son of Elnathan and Esther Bissell Baldwin, was born at Windsor, Conn., about 1800. He graduated from the New Haven Medical College and in 1821 came to Strongsville, where he was the pioneer physician, occupying the first finished frame house in the township. In 1836 he removed to Tecumseh, where he died Dec. 5, 1864. Delia Alden, whom he married at Suffield, Conn., in 1822, was a descendant of John Alden, of the Mayflower. She died at Tecumseh, April 20, 1875, aged 80. Child: i. HARRIET BALDWIN, b. SepL 29, 1848; d. April 13, 1915. She married May 14, 1885, Benjamin Franklin Snyder, a dentist at Tecumseh. He died Sept. 21, 1922. (Mr. and Mrs. Snyder converted the estate of her father into a trust fund, which, after both were deceased, was distributed among the heirs of J. Stoughton Strong's brothers). [56] ELIPHALET STRONG, eldest son of David and Sarah Warner Strong, was born at Stafford, Conn., Aug. 20, 1761; died there Jan. 15, 1847. He married Dec. 11, 1794, Marcia Groves, daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Hubbard) Groves, of Monson, Mass. (Her name is spelled "Mercia" on her grave-stone). She was born July 4, 1771; died at Stafford, Jan. 21, 1831. He was a farmer at Stafford, probably occupying land which was originally a part, or adjacent to, his father's farm on Roaring Brook. By an accident in boyhood he was lamed for life; in jumping a fence he injured an ankle and was compelled ever afterward to use a crutch. On September 13, 1791, he took the oath of fidelity to the (then) new government. His lameness would have prevented him from taking any active part in the preceding conflict. His grave, with those of his wife and daughters Sarah and Lurancy, are in the cemetery near Stafford P. 0. Children, horn at Stafford: 2. i. LYMAN, b. Sept. 29, 1795. 3. ii. RETffiE GROVES, b. June 25, 1797. 4. iii. ELIPHALET, b. March 4, 1799. 5. iv. MARCIA, b. March 13, 1801. 6. v. DAVID, b. May 24, 1803. vi. SARAH, (twin), b. May 24, 1803; d. Dec. 26, 1845; unmarried. vii. LURANCY, b. Nov. 28, 1805; d. June 3, 1861; unmarried. 7. viii. ALVIN, b. March 11, 1808. 8. ix. DELIGHT, b. Oct. 27, 1812. x. SAMUEL SANFORD, b. March 1, 1815; d. at Amherst, Mass., July 11, 1826, while at school. 2. LYMAN STRONG (Eliphalet), was born at Stafford, Sept. 29, 1795; died at Strongsville, 0., April 6, 1850. He married, Jan. 1819, Polly Amidon, daughter of Jedediah and Polly (Walker) Amidon, of Ashford, Conn. They removed to Strongsville, where she died, May 1819. He was captain of the local militia company and by the accidental discharge of a private's gun he received a wound which resulted in the loss of a leg. A man of fine aspect and bearing, he was commonly called "Judge Strong," on account of his ability to give good counsel and make just decisions. 3. RETIRE GROVES STRONG (Eliphalet), was horn at Staf ford, June 25, 1797; died at Strongsville, May 14, 1859. He married [57] (1) June 24, 1819, Vina Whitney, daughter of Deacon Guilford and Anna (Locke) Whitney, of Strongsville, originally of Marlboro, Conn. She was born July 27, 1797; died July 24, 1842. In May, 1843, he married (2) Orra Merrill, who survived him. He came to Strongsvilie in 1816, when nineteen years of age, and was employed by his uncle, John Stoughton Strong, for two years, for which service he received his choice of a farm. He selected one which was then in a dense forest and there established a home and reared his family, enduring at first the many hardships and privations of a frontier life. "The water they drank had to be brought from a spring nearly a mile distant through the woods. Towards evening they would often hear the wolves howling, and the common black bear troubled them frequently. The cabin was built without the use of a nail, had a shake roof, consisting of boards split about three feet in length, and a stick chimney which was so large that the children remember standing in front of the fireplace and counting the stars in the heavens above them. The doors had wooden hinges and latches. The latch-string always hung out ready to welcome their friends and neighbors."-History of Strongsville. Children, born at Strongsville: i. MARCIA ANN, b. April 30, 1823; m. in 1847, Robert M. Ashley. She died at Cuyahoga Falls, 0., March 30, 1853; no children. ii. MARY DELIGHT, b. July 3, 1825; married in 1849 William H. Ashley, of Strongsville. She died there Sept. 5, 1854; no children. 9. iii. SAMUEL SANFORD, b. May 12, 1827. 10. iv. DAVID MERRICK, b. Aug. 22, 1829. v. CLARINDA, b. April 13, 1831; d. young. vi. HARRIET ELIZA, b. May 23, 1832; d. Nov. 27, 1880. Shem. John Chip man Strong ( whom see) . 11. vii. VINA WHITNEY, b. July l, 1834. viii. LA VIN IA, b. April 7, 1837; d. in 1841. 12. ix. NEWTON GROVES, b. Dec. 31, 1838. x. ISABEL, b. July 30, 1840; d. 1840. xi. BETSEY L., b. May 31, 1842; d. Aug. 20, 1842. 4. ELIPHALET STRONG (Eliphalet), was born at Stafford, March 4, 1799; died near Downer's Grove, Ill., Dec. 27, 1882. He married (1) Sept. 10, 1830, Salome Thayer Dodge, daughter of Zebulon and Salome (Thayer) Dodge, of Belchertown, Mass. She was born Dec. 23, 1807; died July 27, 1850. On Oct. 5, 1851, he married (2) Mary Perkins, daughter of George and Hannah (Knight) Perkins, of Hatley, Quebec, Canada. Her father was born at N. Bridgewater, Mass., and her mother at Plainfield, Conn. She was born at Hatley, Aug. 29, 1811; died Dec. 8, 1892. He graduated from Amherst College in 1828, studied theology· and held a pastorate at Hinsdale, N. H., 1832-35. His health failing, he was obliged to give up the ministry and in 1836 came to Milton Town ship, (Downer's Grove P. 0.,) Ill., where he took up 375 acres of (58] government wild land which he developed into the farm upon which he resided. Children, first two b. at Hinsdale, N. H., remainder near Downer's royo G.I. ,.._,, Tll... £. ••. i. ZEBULON, b. July 4, 1832; d. July 31, 1832, at Hinsdale. ii. WILLIAM DICKERMAN, b. May 27, 1834; d. March 16, 1835, at Hins- dale. 13. iii. ELLEN FRANCES, b. July 16, 1837. 14. iv. WILLIAM SANFORD, b. June 28, 1839. 15. v. EDWIN LYMAN, b. Oct. 13, 1841. vi. MARCIA MARIA, b. Aug. 3, 1844; d. Sept. 22, 1845. 16. vii. FRANCIS ALBERT, b. May 7, 1848. 5. MARCIA STRONG (Eliphalet), was born at Stafford, March 13, 1801; died July 15, 1890. She married Oct. 14, 1819, Horatio Amidon, son of Jedediah and Hannah (Walker) Amidon, of Ashford, Conn. He was horn July 27, 1793, at Willington, Conn.; died May 12, 1863, a farmer at Ashford, Conn. The Amidon family is of Huguenot descent. Children, born at Ashford: i. HORATIO LYMAN AMIDON, b. Dec. 25, 1825; d. March 1, 1845. ii. MARCIA LOUISA AMIDON, b. Sept. 26, 1829; d. Aug. 12, 1850. iii. JEDEDIAH SANFORD AMIDON, b. Sept. 19, 1834; d. April 8, 1838. 17. iv. GILBERT ELIPHALET STRONG AMIDON, b. Aug. 20, 1836. 6. DAVID STRONG (Eliphalet), was born at Stafford, May 24, 1803; died at Somers, Wis., Feb. 16, 1880. He married May 9, 1849, Harriet Plympton, born Oct. 1, 1817, daughter of Jephtha and Lucre tia (Holbrook) Plympton, of Sturbridge, Mass. He was a farmer, residing successively at Stafford, Conn., Brookfield, Mass., Wor~ cester, Mass., and finally at Somers, Wis., where he came in 1849. She died May 25, 1896. Children, born at Somers: i. LYMAN JEPHTHA, b. March 18, 1850; d. June 11, 1914. He married Nov. 15, 1882, Nellie Louise Bishop, born Jan. 30, 1861. Her parents were Abram Truman Bishop, born at Cleveland, 0., 1835, died at Sutton, Neb., 1927, and Mary Butler (Hurlburt), born E. Sheldon, Vt., 1835, died at Sutton 1927. Lyman J. Strong was a farmer at Somers, retired before his death. She resides at Sutton. 18. ii. HARRIET LuRANCY, b. Jan. 5, 1852. 19. iii. GEORGE DAVID, b. Aug. 3, 1854.' iv. GILBERT EUGENE, b. Aug. 21, 1858; d. Jan. 26, 1915; unmarried. [59] 7. AL VIN STRONG (Eliphalet), was born at Stafford, March 11, 1808; died at Somers, Wis., June 10, 1860. He married June 10, 1846, Melissa Trowbridge, daughter of James and Nancy (Lyon) Trowbridge, of Ashford, Conn. Her mother was the daughter of Thomas Lyon, of Abington. She was born about 1814; died Dec. 10, 1866. He was a farmer at Somers. Children: i. ALBERT TROWBRIDGE, b. May 12, 1847; d. May, 1915, a farmer at Somers. ii. ELLEN MARCIA, b. Oct. 28, 1848; d. Nov. 6, 1898. 20. iii. SARAH DELIGHT, b. Feb. 14, 1851. iv. ALMIRA ABIGAIL, b. Oct. 27, 1852; d. June 4, 1874. 21. v. FRANCES AMELIA, b. March 14, 1854. 8. DELIGHT STRONG (Eliphalet), was born at Stafford, Oct. 27, 1812. She married Oct. 12, 1842, Samuel Morse, son of Lyman and Sarah (Child) Morse, of Sturbridge, Mass., who was born Aug. 29, 1807; died March 23, 1874. He was a farmer at Sturbridge. She died Dec. 27, 1882. Lyman Morse, born in Sturbridge, Aug. 17, 1780, married May 24, 1804, Sarah Child, born in Roxbury, Mass., March 1, 1782, daughter of Abijah Child, born in Rox blll'Y, Dec. 80, 1748, who died in Sturbridge, Jan. 81, 1884, and Lois Davis, born in Roxbury, Oct. 13, 17 48, who died May 1, 1824. Children: i. ADELAIDE MARIA MoRSE, b. Sept. 2, 1846; d. Oct. 9, 1928. ii. ALVIN SAMUEL MORSE, b. May 13, 1849; d. Feb. 2, 1919, unmarried. iii. SARAH DELIGHT MoRSE, b. Dec. 22, 1852; resides at Sturbridge. 9. SAMUEL SANFORD STRONG (Retire Groves, Eliphalet), was born at Strongsville, May 12, 1827; died at Somers, Wis., Jan. 11, 1901. He married Jan. 11, 1855, Louise Carre, who was born on the Isle of Guernsey, May 19, 1829; died Sept. 2, 1901. He was a farmer at Somers. Children: i. MARY LOUISA, b. Feb. 17, 1857; d. March 20, 1896. ii. KATIE GIRARD, b. Oct. 10, 1858; d. June 4, 1878. iii. ALICE ELIZA, b. Oct. 24, 1860; m. June 6, 1906, Rev. J. W. McNary; he died May 28, 1909. iv. ADDIE AMELIA, b. Jan. 26, 1864; d. Feb. 27, 1890. v. NEWTON GROVES, b. Sept. 17, 1867; d. May 31, 1878. 10. DAVID MERRICK STRONG (Retire Groves, Eliphalet), was born at Strongsville, Aug. 22, 1829; died there Dec. 24, 1906. He married Oct. 25, 1853, Almira Sprague Bryant, daughter of Francis S. and Betsey E. (Sprague) Bryant. She was born at Nelson, [60] N. H., Aug. 20, 1833; died at Strongsville, Dec. 8, 1906. He was a farmer at Strongsville, occupying land first settled by his father in 1818. He was a deacon of the Congregational church and superin tendent of the Sunday school for many years. Francis Bryant was a native of Massachusetts, and his wife, Betsey (Sprague), of New Hampshire. They emigrated in 1833 to Coshocton Co., O., thence about 1844 to Strongsville. He died July 6, 1856; she died Oct. 1, 1865. Children, born at Strongsville: i. FRANCIS GROVES, b. Feb. 6, 1855; d. Feb. 1858. ii. CHARLES MERRICK, h. March 24, 1857; d. Feb. 1858. 22. iii. HARRIET ELIZA, b. Jan. 21, 1859. iv. MARY ALMIRA, b. July 28, 1865; d. May 9, 1875. 23. v. ARTHUR BRYANT, b. Sept.13, 1868. 11. VINA WHITNEY STRONG (Retire Groves, Eliphalet), was born at Strongsville, July 1, 1834; died March 15, 1888. She married June, 1857, Leland Spencer of Dover, 0. They resided at Edgerton, Wisconsin. Children: 24. i. ALTA, b. Jan. 19, 1858. ii. NEWTON, d. in infancy. iii. NATHAN, b. July 2, 1865; d. April 1, 1910, unmarried. 12. NEWTON GROVES STRONG (Retire Groves, Eliphalet), was born at Strongsville, Dec. 31, 1838; died Jan. 11, 1908. He mar ried Jan. 30, 1866, Aurelia Parsons, of Brunswick, 0. During the Civil War he served for three years in Battery G, First Ohio Light Artillery. He was a stock farmer at Hudson, Mich. Children ( besides three that died in infancy) : i. NELLIE FLORENCE, b. July 8, 1870; married Nov. 16, 1898, Frank C. Aldrich, of Hudson. ii. FRED SANFORD, b. July 12, 1878; married Sept. 21, 1904, Mary Hatt, of Jackson, Mich. 13. ELLEN FRANCES STRONG (Eliphalet, Eliphalet), was born near Downer's Grove, Ill., July 16, 1837; died Jan. 3, 1919. She mar ried Jan. 6, 1858, George Washington Churchill, born at Moors, N. Y., 1825, died Oct. 7, 1904. Children: i. BELLA FRANCES CHURCHILL, b. at New London, Iowa, Nov. 20, 1858; d. Aug. 10, 1860. 25. ii. GEORGE WASHINGTON CHURCHILL, b. at Decatur, ID., Dec. 11, 1862. iii. MINNIE BELLA CHURCHILL, b. at McLean, Ill., March 16, 1864, mar ried Dec. 8, 1904, George Hughes Coventry, b. at Edwardsville, [61] Ill., Dec. 1859; no children. iv. CATHARINE FRANCES CHURCHILL, b. at Godfrey, Ill., Aug. 5, 1868, mar ried Gilbert W. Amidon (See No. 31). 14. WILLIAM SANFORD STRONG (Eliphalet, Eliphalet), was born near Downer's Grove, Ill., June 28, 1839; died at Palermo, Calif., in 1893. He married Oct. 20, 1870, Emma Irene (Cleaver) Davis, born 1847. (She was the widow of a Mr. Davis by whom she had a son, Elmer, born 1867). He went to the far west in 1865 and resided at Albany and Dayton, Wash., previous to Palermo, being first in the bakery business and later in farming and real estate. Children: i. WILLIAM, d. young. ii. WILLIAM, d. 1878. 15. EDWIN LYMAN STRONG (Eliphalet, Eliphalet), was horn near Downer's Grove, Ill., Oct. 13, 1841; died in 1923. He married Dec. 31, 1866, Emma De Ette Raymond, daughter of John and Sarah Ann (Knapp) Raymond, of Butler, Ill. She was born Dec. 30, 1847; died in 1908. He was a farmer at Rankin, Ill., also lived for some years at Champaign, Ill. Children: 26. i. JOHN EDWIN, b. Feb. 17, 1868. 27. ii. EMMA AnELMA, b. Aug. 10, 1871. 16. FRANCIS ALBERT STRONG (Eliphalet, Eliphalet), was born near Downer's Grove, Ill., May 7, 1848; died there Jan. 8, 1884. He married Oct. 8, 1872, Hannah Elizabeth Perkins, daughter of Silas and Ruth Freelove (Redway) Perkins, of Hatley, Quebec, Canada. She was born July 31, 1839; died June 25, 1926. He was a farmer, residing in Milton Township, Du Page Co., near Downer's Grove. Children, born in Milton Township: 28. i. CLARA WINNOLA, b. June 3, 1874. ii. WZABETH ALBERTA, b. June 12, 1876; she and her sister Harriet reside at 702 Maple Ave., Downer's Grove. iii. RUBY HANNAH, b. Feb. 18, 1878; d. Nov. 3, 1902. iv. HARRIET SALOME, b. Nov. 5, 1880. She was graduated in 1905 from Northwestern University, received the M. A. degree in 1918, for which she studied there, at University of Chicago and Biological Station of University of Michigan. She held a college professor ship (biology-botany) until obliged to retire on account of injury in a railway accident. v. WILLIAM FRANCIS ELIPHALET, b. June 9, 1883; d. April 21, 1886. [62] 17. GILBERT ELIPHALET STRONG AMIDON (Marcia, Eli phalet), was born at Ashford, Conn., Aug. 20, 1836; died Nov. 27, 1918. He married Nov. 11, 1868, Julia Sophia Whiton, daughter of Stephen and Abigail (Byles) Whiton, of Ashford. She was born April 7, 1849; died March 25, 1925. He was a school teacher when a young man, later a farmer in Ashford. Children, born at Ashford: 29. i. CHARLES SANFORD AMIDON, b. Nov. 9, 1869. 30. ii. MARY LOUISA AMIDON, h. May 11, 1871. 31. iii. GILBERT WHITON AMIDON, h. Aug. 23, 1872. 32. iv. ROBERT STRONG AMIDON, b. June 8, 1875. v. LILLIAN AMIDON, h. March 11, 1877. 33. vi. ANDREW HUNTINGTON AMIDON, b. March 11, 1879. 34. vii. HARLAN PAGE AMIDON, b. May 8, 1881. viii. ABIGAIL DELIGHT AMIDON, b. July 22, 1884. ix. HENRY NATHAN AMIDON, b. Dec. 7, 1887. 18. HARRIET LURANCY STRONG (David, Eliphalet), was born at Somers, Wis., Jan. 5, 1852; died at Portland, Ore., Jan. 16, 1920. She married Edward Dennis Briggs, son of Philander Tinkum Briggs and Emeline (Harris) , of Somers. He was born Dec. 22, 1843; died at Portland, Jan. 16, 1925. Before coming there he was a farmer at Somers and a commission merchant at Milwaukee. Philander T. Briggs was born in Vermont in 1814; died in Wisconsin, July 11, 1883, having come to that state in 1850. He was a soldier of the Civil. War. He married in New York, Feb. 22, 1838, Emeline Harris, a native of Massachusetts. She died Feb. 2, 1881, aged 68. Their children were: Lyden W., Ione, Edward, James and Emma. Children, born at Somers: i. DAVID DELBERT BRIGGS, b. Jan. 1, 1878, a bookkeeper at Portland, unmarried. 35. ii. ADA BRIGGS, b. Jan. 16, 1881. 36. iii. ELIZABETH BRIGGS, h. Aug. 20, 1886. iv. HELEN BRIGGS, b. Nov. 1888; d. 1892. 19. GEORGE DAVID STRONG (David, Eliphalet), was born at Somers, Wis., Aug. 3, 1854. He married Oct. 4, 1883, Cora Belle Cronk, born Nov. 5, 1857, daughter of John and Lucy (Sheldon) Cronk, of Salem, Wis. He resides at Lake Mills, Wis., where he was an independent oil dealer, having retired since 1917. Children: 37. i. CLARENCE EUGENE, b. at Somers, July 29, 1886. ii. MARION RuTH, b. at 5-0mers, March 29, 1888, a school teacher at Lake Mills. iii. ETHEL FRANCES, b. at Portage, Wis., July 14, 1889, a school teacher at Houston, Texas. [63] iv. DAVID DWIGHT, b. at Tomahawk, Wis., July 2, 1891, d. March 19, 1893. v. LORIN DAVID b. at Tomahawk, Sept. 4, 1893, a school teacher at Janesville, Wis. 20. SARAH DELIGHT STRONG (Alvin, Eliphalet), was born at Somers, Wis., Feb. 14, 1851; died Jan. 22, 1913. She married Sept. 7, 1876, Mead 0. Myrick, of Somers, born Jan. 10, 1847. He resides at Cleveland. Children, born at Paris, Wis.: i. MYRA LUCINDA MYRICK, b. June 30, 1877; graduated at Oberlin 1903, a social worker with the Associated Charities at Cleveland. ii. NELLIE FRANCES MYRICK, b. June 24, 1880; d. at Kenosha., Wis., June 17, 1917. iii. LORIN MEAD MYRICK, b. July 19, 1883; d. at Paris, Wis., April 25, 1908; Oberlin 1902-6, University of Chicago 1906-7. 38. iv. MILDRED LOUISE MYRICK, b. June 5, 1892. 21. FRANCES AMELIA STRONG (Alvin, Eliphalet), was born at Somers, Wis., March 14, 1854; died April 20, 1912. She married Nov. 1, 1876, James A. Spence, of Somers. Child: 39. i. FLORENCE MELISSA SPENCE, b. April 15, 1879. 22. HARRIET ELIZA STRONG (David Merrick, Retire Groves, Eliphalet), born at Strongsville, Jan. 21, 1859, married April 21, 1880, Frank Miles Clark, son of Heman and Myra (Miles) Clark. He was born at Strongsville, Jan. 14, 1854; died at Salem, Ohio, OcL 8, 1892. He graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College in 1880, practiced for three years at Monroeville, 0., and for the remainder of his life at Salem, 0., a successful physician with a large practice. He was a member of the American Institute of Home opathy and the Ohio State Medical Society. She resides at 3508 Ma pledale Ave., Cleveland, 0. Heman Clark, son of Asahel and Susan (Mosely) Clark, was born May 6, 1816, at Hartford, Vt.; came to Strongsville in 1844. In 1853 he married (1) Myra E., daughter of Samuel and Saloma Miles. She died Aug. 16, 1868, and he married (2) Clara Norton, of Litchfield, 0., to which place he removed. Children: 40. i. llARLAN MERRICK Cu.rue, b. at Monroeville, 0., June 8, 1881. ii. MYRA EVERETT Curuc, b. Aug. 29, 1883; d. at Salem, 0., Sept. 8, 1889. iii. FRANK HEMAN CLARK, b. Aug. 31, 1888; d. at Salem, May 21, 1889. 41. iv. RussELL ARTHUR Ci.ARK, b. at Salem, Aug. 7, 1890. 23. ARTHUR BRYANT STRONG (David Merrick, Retire Groves, Eliphalet), was born at Strongsville, Sept. 13, 1868; died at Pasadena, (64] Calif., Sept. 8, 1929. He married (1) Aug. 22, 1894, Angie Belle Christy, of Penfield, 0. She was born May 6, 1870; died Jan. 5, 1904. He married (2) June 18, 1907, Jessie M. Knowlton, of Mantua, 0., born Oct. 27, 1870, died March 30, 1915; (3) June 23, 1919, Flora J. Miller, of Pasadena. He graduated at Baldwin Wailace College in 1891, at McCormick Theological Seminary in 1897, and was a minister of the Presbyterian church. Children: 42. i. LLoYD CHRISTY, b. at Chicago, Oct. 'l:l, 1896. ii. GLADYS DELIGHT, b. at N. Springfield, Apr. 20, 1902. She graduated at Washington University and taught in the psychological de partment. She married Oct. 9, 1926, Edgar F. Fricke, of Seattle, also a Washington graduate. iii. AGNES BELLE CHRISTY, b. at N. Springfield, Jan. 4, 1904. She grad uated at Wooster College and studied at Teachers College, New York City. 24. ALTA SPENCER (Vina Whitney, Retire Groves, Eliphalet), was born Jan. 19, 1858; died Aug. 16, 1911. She married Peter Barn son, of Edgerton, Wis. Children: 43. i. HARLAN BARNSON, b. Nov. 14, 1877. ii. MABEL BARNSON, b. Sept. 'l:l, 1887; d. Oct. 27, 1919. She married Oct. 15, 1917, Leverett Osborn. 25. GEORGE WASHINGTON CHURCHILL (Ellen Frances, Eliphalet, Eliphalet), born at Decatur, Ill., Dec. 11, 1862, married Feb. 19, 1891, Lora Weaver, born Nov. 14, 1866, daughter of A. F. Weaver and Marilla Ann (Dunn) , of Nokomis, Ill. He resides at 4817 N. Leavitt St., Chicago. Children: i. EDWIN W. CHURCHILL, h. at Fosterburg, Ill., Dec. 30, 1891; d. Dec. 31, 1891. 44. ii. HARRY STRONG CHURCHILL, b. at Alton, Ill., July 1, 1895. 45. iii. GEORGE W. CHURCHILL, JR., b. at Chicago, May 10, 1900. 26. JOHN EDWIN STRONG (Edwin Lyman, Eliphalet, Elipha let), was born Feb. 16, 1868; died at Natchez, Miss., Nov. 19, 1928. He married Feb. 17, 1889, Myrtle Estella Clements, born Oct. 30, 1868, daughter of Hugh E. Clements, of Hoopeston, Ill., and Sarah (Bowlby). He was a farmer at Weaver, Ill., and resided at Cham paign, Ill., 1898-1910. Children: [65] 46. i. EDWIN RAYMOND, b. at Rankin, Ill., Jan. 21, 1890. 47. ii. ESTELLA DE: ETTE, b. at Stella, Neb., Jan. 3, 1892. iii. ELBIE CLEMENTS, b. at Monon, Ind., March 6, 1895, m. Lillian Josephine Warsaw, b. June 14, 1896. iv. FAYE ADELMA, b. at Monon, Dec. 13, 1898, m. Otto Lightle; they reside at Hoopeston, Ill. Children: Edwin, h. May 1918; Mary Adelma, b. April 30, 1920. v. RUTH LEONE, b. at Champaign, Ill., Jan. 28, 1902; m. R. D. Harris. They reside at 1212 N. Walnut street, Champaign; have a daugh ter born Dec. 16, 1921. 27. EMMA ADELMA STRONG (Edwin Lyman, Eliphalet, Eliphalet), born Aug. 10, 1871, married Oct. 29, 1891, Charles Amos Dale, born March 13, 1867, son of Amos Dale, of Urbana, Ill., and Elizabeth (Love), formerly of Muncie, Ind. They reside at 402 N. Gregory Ave., Whittier, Calif. Children: 48. i. LYMAN STRONG DALE, b. at Champaign, Ill., July 17, 1895. ii. EMILY ELIZABETH DALE, b. at Champaign, July 1, 1908. iii. ADELMA DE ETTE DALE, b. at Ithaca, Mich., July 22, 1914. 28. CLARA WINNOLA STRONG (Francis Albert, Eliphalet, Eliphalet), born near Downer's Grove, Ill., June 3, 1874, married Oct. 27, 1897, Orea! Otto Elder, born Sept. 28, 1876, son of Franklin Frasher Elder, of Normal, Ill., and Therrissa (Fisher). They reside near Georgetown Station, Madison Co., N. Y., where he is engaged in farming. Children : 49. i. RUTH FRANCES ELDER, b. at Springfield, Mo., Aug. 21, 1898 ii. EDWIN HARVEY ELDER, b. at Springfield, Dec. 17, 1899; d. Oct. 30, 1900. iii. JoHN OREAL ELDER, b. at Osawatomie, Kan., July 11, 1901; d. March 25, 1921. He was an aviator in the U. S. Marine Corps and lost his life in the service, he, with five others, being carried out in a free balloon from Pensacola, Fla., over the Gulf of Mexico. The balloon was found, but there was no trace of its occupants. iv. VERNON STRONG ELDER, b. at Butler, Mo., July 9, 1903. v. THERISA FAITH ELDER, b. at Los Angeles, Calif., July 22, 1905; d. Sept. 27, 1906. 50. vi. ELIZABETH FISHER ELDER, b. at Downer's Grove, Ill, Jan. 30, 1907. vii. DONALD PERKINS ELDER, b. at Downer's Grove, Oct. 18, 1908; d. July 15, 1909. viii. WALTER FREDERICK ELDER, b. at Downer's Grove, Dec. 2, 1910; m. Aug. 21, 1930, Hedwig Bucher, b. at Kerns, Switzerland, daughter of Herman Bucher, of Luzern, and Marie (Blattler). He is a farmer near Warwick, N. Y. (R. F. D. 1). ix. RUBY HoPE ELDER, b. at Georgetown, N. Y., June 28, 1913. L LoRA OLIVE ELDER, b. at Georgetown, Aug. 11, 1915. xi. FRANKLIN CLIFFORD ELDER, b. Nov. 14, 1916. [66] 29. CHARLES SANFORD AMIDON ( Gilbert Eliphalet Strong, Marcia, Eliphalet), was born at Ashford, Conn., Nov. 9, 1869. He married (1) Nov. 19, 1894, Alice May Holt, daughter of Lucien Wright Holt, of East "Willington, Conn., an.cl ,Angeline (Clark). She was born July 3, 1875; died April, 1918. He married (2) Sept. 14, 1926, Nettie Copeland. He is a lumberman and manufacturer, operat ing saw-mills at East Willington. Children, born at East Willington: 51. i. RAYMOND HOLT AMIDON, b. Feb. 20, 1896. ii. FRANK RUPERT AMIDON, b. Feb. 13, 1897. 52. iii. MILDRED JULIA AMIDON, b. May 9, 1899. iv. Doms MABEL AMIDON, b. July 21, 1902. v. LAWRENCE GILBERT LUCIEN AMIDON, b. July 10, 1904. vi. CHARLES RUDOLPH AMIDON, b. Aug. 9, 1906. vii. ALICE HAZEL AMIDON, b. June 12, 1908. viii. MARJORIE ANGELINE AMIDON, b. Aug. 29, 1909; d. OcL 21, 1909. ix. BARBARA FRANCES AMIDON, b. Dec. 25, 1915. x. ELSIE MAY AMIDON, b. March 18, 1917. 30. MARY LOUISA AMIDON ( Gilbert Eliphalet Strong, Marcia, Eliphalet), was born at Ashford, Conn., May 11, 1871. She married April 26, 1892, John William Armitage, born at Ashford, Jan. 28, 1869, son of John Armitage and Martha (Taylor), both formerly of England. He is a lumberman and farmer in Ashford. Children, horn at Stafford: 53. i. NATHAN GILBERT .ARMITAGE, b. June 25, 1895. ii. CLARA MARTHA ARMITAGE, b. Dec. 12, 1899. 31. GILBERT WHITON AMIDON (Gilbert Eliphalet Strong, Marcia, Eliphalet), was born at Ashford, Conn., Aug. 23, 1872. He married July 9, 1908, Catharine Frances Churchill (see No. 13), born Aug. 5, 1868, daughter of George Washington Churchill, born at Moores, N. Y., and Ellen Frances (Strong), of Downer's Grove, Ill. They reside at Stafford Springs, Conn., where he is engaged in wood working and building. 32. ROBERT STRONG AMIDON (Gilbert Eliphalet Strong, Marcia, Eliphalet), was born at Ashford, Conn., June 8, 1875; died March 10, 1930. He married Josephine Elector Prentice, born June 30, 1876, the daughter of Lionel Rudolph Prentice, of Torrington, Conn., and Mary Charlotte (Calhoun), originally of Matteawan, N. Y. His home was at Scotland, Conn., where he kept a general store. Children, except first, born at Tolland, Conn.: [67] 54. i. HowARD PRENTICE AMIDON, b. at Ashford, Conn., Dec. 15, 1905. ii. HELEN CONSTANCE AMIDON, b. July 7, 1908. iii. ROBERTA AMIDON, b. Dec. 14, 1911; d. Nov. 3, 1913. iv. RICHARD Ross AMIDON, b. July 21, 1913. 33. ANDREW HUNTINGTON A...\1:IDON (Gilbert Eliphalet Strong, Marcia, Eliphalet), was born at Ashford, Conn., March 11, 1879. He married April 3, 1907, Stella Alberta Clough, born Nov. 16, 1879, daughter of Roger M. and Carrie Beach Clough, of Tolland, Conn. He is a farmer at Abington, Conn. Children: 55. i. STANLEY CLoucH AMIDON, b. at Stafford Springs, Jan. 24, 1908. ii. NORMAN WHITON AMIDON, b. at Stafford Springs, Oct. 1, 1909. iii. ELLSWORTH SYKES AMIDON, b. at Abington, May 27, 1912; d. July 12, 1925. iv. RUTH HUNTINGTON AMIDON, b. at Abington, Sept. 10, 1914. v. CHARLOTTE BEACH AMIDON, b. at Abington, Oct. 16, 1920. 34. HARLAN PAGE AMIDON (Gilbert Eliphalet Strong, Marcia, Eliphalet), was born at Ashford, Conn., May 8, 1881. He married Aug. 16, 1918, Grace Allen Cruff, born Sept. 7, 1888, daugh ter of Joseph A. Cruff, of Thompson, Conn., and Adeline (Allen), originally of Dudley, Mass. He is a farmer at Thompson, Conn., and has a picker stick and wood working shop there. Children, born at Thompson: i. GILBERT ALLEN AMIDON, b. Sept. 18, 1919. ii. JULIA DELIGHT AMIDON, b. June 4, 1921. iii. LEON JOSEPH AMIDON, b. March 24, 1924; d. Dec. 30, 1928. 35. ADA BRIGGS (Harriet Lurancy, David, Eliphalet), horn at Somers, Wis., Jan. 16, 1881, married June 11, 1909, Harry Reilly, horn about 1875, son of John Reilly and Mary (Mulholland), of Milwaukee, Wis. He is an electrical engineer, employed in various parts of the country. Child: i. I!AruuET REILLY, b. at Stockton, Calif., 1912; d. 1920. 36. ELIZABETH BRIGGS (Harriet L., David, Eliphalet), born at Somers, Wis., Aug. 20, 1886, married June 17, 1911, William Piepenbrink, born July 14, 1884, son of William J. F. Piepenbrink, of Milwaukee, Wis., and Julia (Knothe). He is a certified public accountant, residing at 1212 E. Ankeny St., Portland, Ore. Child: i. Lo IS JEAN PIEPENBRINK, b. at Portland, Sept. 11, 1920. [68] 37. CLARENCE EUGENE STRONG ( George David, David, Eliphalet), born at Somers, Wis., July 29, 1886, married July 26, 1912, Ida Olson Wohl, born Feb. 12, 1888, daughter of Michael Wohl. They reside at Racine Wis. Children, born at Somers, Wis.: i. FRANCES LORAINE, b. Dec. 19, 1916. ii. MARION HARRIET, b. Sept. 3, 1918. iii. AMY JANE, b. May 15, 1920. 38. MILDRED LOUISE MYRICK (Sarah Delight, Alvin, Elipha let), born at Paris, Wis., June 5, 1892, married at Cleveland, 0., April 12, 1922, Fred W. Du Gar, born at Charleston, S. C. Children, born at Cleveland: i. EUGENE BENJAMIN Du GAR, b. June 6, 1923. ii. SARAH STRONG Du G~ b. July 25, 1925. 39. FLORENCE MELISSA SPENCE (Frances Amelia, Alvin, Eliphalet), was born April 15, 1879; died June 8, 1930. She married June 27, 1906, Edwin Sherwood Bishop, of Somers, Wis., who died July 31, 1916. She graduated at the University of Wisconsin in 1902. Children: i. JAMES SPENCE BISHOP, b. July 25, 1910. ii Enwrn SHERWOOD BISHOP, b. March 10, 1915. 40. HARLAN MERRICK CLARK (Harriet Eliza, David Merrick, Retire Groves, Eliphalet), was born at Monroeville, 0., June 8, 1881. He married May 23, 1907, Clara Selena Bedford, born at Strongs ville, Aug. 8, 1882, daughter of Albert C. Bedford and Florence (Sanderson). He was educated at Baldwin Wallace College and Case School of Applied Science. Children: i. loLA MAY CLARK, b. March 10, 1915; d. June 23, 1915. ii MILTON BEDFORD CLARK, b. at Cleveland, Dec. 22, 1918. 41. RUSSELL ARTHUR CLARK (Harriet Eliza, David Merrick, Retire Groves, Eliphalet), born at Salem, Ohio, Aug. 7, 1890, married Nov. 26, 1919, Odessa Coffland, born March 30, 1890, daughter of J. Edward and Belle (Trussell) Coffland, of Richland Center, Wis. He graduated at Oberlin in 1912, Columbia Law School 1915, and is an attorney at Richland Center. She attended Oberlin Conservatory. Children: i. ALLENE BELLE CLARK, b. at Cleveland, Oct. 26, 1920. ii. RUSSELL COFFLAND Cl.ARK, h. at Richland Center, March 31, 1923. iii. HARRIET ALICE CLARK, b. at Richland Center, April 19, 1925. [69] 42. LLOYD CHRISTY STRONG (Arthur Bryant, David Merrick, Retire Groves, Eliphalet), born at Chicago, Oct. 27, 1896, married July 10, 1922, Rita Danforth, of Eugene, Ore. He studied at Pomona College and graduated from Washington University. Children: i. ROBERT DANFORTH, b .at Pasadena, Aug. 13, 1925. ii. JAMF.s CHRISTY, b. Dec. '2:7, 1929. 43. HARLAN BARNSON (Alta Spencer, Vina Whitney, Retire Groves, Eliphalet), born Nov. 14, 1877; died June 3, 1924, married Margaret Cushing. Children: i. Lois :MARGARET, b. April 21, 1913. ii. ALTA :MARY, b. March 27, 1915. 44. HARRY STRONG CHURCHILL (George W., Ellen Frances, Eliphalet, Eliphalet), was born at Alton, Ill., July 1, 1895. He mar ried at Chicago, June 16, 1921, Helen Herrick, born April 12, 1898, daughter of Horace N. and Mary (Music) Herrick, of Chicago. He is a salesman, residing at Chicago. Children, born at Chicago: i. MARY VmGINIA CHURCHILL, b. Oct. 8, 1922. ii. DOROTHY ANN CHURCHILL, b. Dec. 29, 1924. ill. ROBERT REID CHURCHILL, h. Nov. 7, 1926. 45. GEORGE W. CHURCHILL, JR., ( George W., Ellen Frances, Eliphalet, Eliphalet), was born at Chicago, May 10, 1900. He mar ried June 20, 1923, Muriel Peterson, horn at Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 18, 1896, daughter of Dr. D. W. Peterson and Jennie (McBeth), of Chicago. He is a salesman at Chicago. Child: i. MURIEL JANET CHURCHILL, h. at Chicago, Dec. 27, 1926. 46. EDWIN RAYMOND STRONG (John Edwin, Edwin Lyman, Eliphalet, Eliphalet), was horn at Rankin, Ill., Jan. 21, 1890; married Sept. 26, 1911, Edna Gertrude Barrett, born Dec. 4, 1891, daughter of Edgar Grant Barrett and Florence (Peake), of Downer's Grove, Ill. He is a physician in the U. S. Army, with rank of Major, and served over-seas in the World War; is now (1931) stationed at Fort Slocum, N. Y. 47. ESTELLA DE ETTE STRONG (John Edwin, Edwin Lyman, Eliphalet, Eliphalet), born at Stella, Neb., Jan. 3, 1892, married (1) [70] Nov. 7, 1913, Charles Christian Wright, divorced Oct. 9, 1926; (2) Apr. 14, 1927, Charles Cloyd Miner, born March 1, 1881, son of Parkhurst Robert Miner and Alvira (Smith), of Cambria, Iowa. They reside at Kuna (R.F.D. 2), Idaho. Child (by former marriage) : i. LAWRENCE ALBERT WRIGHT, b. at Denver, Colo., July 9, 1915. 48. LYMAN STRONG DALE (Emma A., Edwin Lyman, Elipha let, Eliphalet), born at Champaign, Ill., July 17, 1895, married July 31, 1919, Maude Leone Bevan, born Nov. 18, 1888, daughter of Lewis R. and Elizabeth (Harris) Bevan, of Carbondale, Pa. He is supply man at the Chrysler automobile plant, residing at 245 E. Buena Vista St., Highland Park, Detroit, Mich. Children, born at Detro ii: i. ROBERT E. DALE, b. Sept. 23, 1920. ii. GEORGE ARTHUR DALE, b. July 21, 1922. iii. DAVID BEVAN DALE, b. Oct. 29, 1925. 49. RUTH FRANCIS ELDER (Clara Winnola, Francis Albert, Eliphalet, Eliphalet) , born at Springfield, Mo., Aug. 21, 1898, mar ried Jan. 1928, Marshall Mayer Housekeeper, son of Harvey and Joanna (Collins) Housekeeper, of Bayonne, N. J. They reside at Windemere Court, Wayne, Pa., where he is a salesman. Child: i. ROBERT MARSHALL HousEKEEPER, b. at Wayne, Nov. 3, 1928. 50. ELIZABETH FISHER ELDER ( Clara Winnola, Francis Albert, Eliphalet, Eliphalet), born at Downer's Grove, Ill., Jan. 30, 1907, married July 28, 1923, Harold William Jensen, born Sept. 19, 1902, son of Jens P. and Christine (Longfellow) Jensen, of Esther ville, Iowa. They reside at Merrickville, N. Y., and he is a farm.er there. Children: i. lIARvEY VERMOND JENSEN, b. at Georgetown, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1924; d. Dec. 11, 1924. ii. WILLIAM HAROLD JENSEN, b. at Georgetown, June 14, 1926. iii. BEATRICE ELIZABETH JENSEN, b. at Earlville, N. Y., Aug. 4, 1928. iv. JEAN JENSEN, b. at Merrickville, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1930. 51. RAYMOND HOLT AMIDON ( Charles Sanford, Gilbert Eliphalet Strong, Marcia, Eliphalet), was born at East Willington, Conn., Feb. 20, 1896. He married Jan. 22, 1921, Clara Maud Pearl, born Dec. 9, 1894, at South Windham, Conn. She is the daughter of [71] Frank Everett Pearl and Emma J. (Plumley), of South Windham. He is a lumberman and machinist at East Willington. Children, born at East Willington: i. CHARLES MALCOLM AMIDON, b. Nov. 10, 1921. ii. WHENCE RAYMOND AMIDON, b. July 12, 1923. iii. JUNE LEONE AMIDON, h. June 19, 1925. 52. MILDRED JULIA AMIDON ( Charles Sanford, Gilbert Eliphalet Strong, Marcia, Eliphalet), was born at East Willington, Conn., May 9, 1899. She married June 24, 1924, Frederick Maitland Abell, born Dec. 10, 1891, son of William Maitland Abell, of Lebanon, Conn., and Caroline Almira (Loomis). They reside at Plainville, Conn., where he is overseer in an electrical manufacturing plant. Children, born at Plainville: i. MARSHALL MAITLAND ABELL, b. April 8, 1927. ii. CARoL ELIZABETH ABELL, b. Dec. 25, 1930. 53. NATHAN GILBERT ARMITAGE (Mary Louisa, Gilbert Eliphalet Strong, Marcia, Eliphalet), born at Stafford, Conn., June 25, 1895, married Dec. 25, 1926, Lina Emma Wheeler, born Feb. 5, 1904, daughter of Charles Henry Wheeler, of Scotland, Conn., and Lina May (Isham). He is a lumberman and mechanic at Ash ford, Conn. Child: i. MARTHA LomsA ARMITAGE, h. at Ashford, Feb. 20, 1928. 54. HOW ARD PRENTICE AMIDON (Robert Strong, Gilbert Eliphalet Strong, Marcia, Eliphalet), was born at Ashford, Conn., Dec. 15, 1905. He married March 10, 1928, Esther Lawson, born Sept. 30, 1908, of North Easton, Mass. He is employed in a shovel factory at North Easton. Children, born at North Easton : i ROBERTA MARrE AMIDON, b. D ec. 25, 1928. ii. DAVID NELSON AMIDON, b. Oct. 4, 1930. 55. STANLEY CLOUGH AMIDON (Andrew Huntington, Gilbert Eliphalet Strong, Marcia, Eliphalet), was born at Stafford Springs, Conn., Jan. 24, 1908. He married March 8, 1930, Louise Kovarovics, born June 20, 1904, the daughter of Stephen A. Kovarovics, of Ash ford, Conn., and Appollonia (Rehak), both born at Vienna, Austria. He is a surveyor, engaged in state highway construction. [72] Our Ancestors' Brothers and Sisters SARAH STRONG, daughter of David and Sarah (Warner) Strong, was born at Stafford, Conn., March 15, 1763. She married Nathaniel Hyde, born March 7, 1757, son of Ephraim and Martha (Giddings) Hyde, of Stafford. He belonged to a family of wealthy iron founders who had established that industry near Stafford P. 0., now locally known as "Stafford Hollow." Her children were Alvin, Nathaniel, Sarah, Lavinia, Martha and probably others. For what is known of her descendants see the Strong and Hyde genealogies. HANNAH STRONG, daughter of David and Sarah (Warner) Strong, was born at Stafford, Oct. 22, 1766. She married, Oct. 8, 1789, Josiah Wheeler, of Stafford. Her children were Clarissa, Laura, Martha, Ira and Hannah. The family removed to Marlboro, Vt., to which her brother, John Stoughton Strong, had emigrated. Clarissa, the eldest daughter, married an Adams. Mr. Edwin P. Adams, for many years town clerk of Marlboro, was her grandson. He stated to the writer that his grandmother, previous to her marriage, lived in the family of her uncle, John Stoughton Strong. DELIGHT STRONG, daughter of David and Sarah (Warner) Strong, was born at Stafford, April 20, 1774. She married Jasper Hyde, (brother of Nathaniel who married her sister Sarah), a wealthy iron manufacturer. He had no children by her, but the Hyde genealogy states that he had two sons by another woman and left the greater part of his property to them. DAVID STRONG, son of David and Sarah (Warner) Strong, was born at Stafford, Dec. 11, 1776; died at Marlboro, Vt., July 20, 1842. The Stafford church records show that he and his twin sister Abigail were baptized March 14, 1777, at their father's house, at the time of their mother's funeral. He followed his elder brother, John Stoughton, to Marlboro, where he was a farmer and lived for the rest of his life. He married at Stafford, Feb. 13, 1808, Abigail Phinney, who died at Marlboro, April 24, 1869, after twenty-six years of widowhood. The house in which they lived is to be seen, in a good state of preser- . vation. The graves of David and Abigail Strong and those of three of their children who died young are in the Marlboro cemetery. Children: [73] i. HENRIETIA, b. Nov. 20, 1808; d. Jan. 1, 1835. She married Jan. 4, 1831, Almon James; had two children. ii. PHELPS, b. March 13, 1814; d. June 28, 1815. iii. (Infant), b. March 26, 1816; d. April 1, 1816. 2. iv. SAMUEL PHELPS, b. Aug. 5, 1817. v. GIDDINGS HYDE, b. March 6, 1820; m. June 16, 1847, Sarah Thomas, lived at Lincoln, Neb. vi. DAVID, b. Feb. 15, 1822; d. Sept. 6, 1852. vii. MARTHA, b. Nov. 6, 1827; d. May 23, 1829. viii. FAY, b. May 29, 1830; d. Nov. 3, 1837. In the list of marriages in David Strong's family bible are two names which are not found among the birth records of his children. These are: 1. Jennet Strong, married Nov. 6, 1832, Wm. Ingraham. 2. Abigail Strong, married May 20, 1833, Reuben Fields; died March 1, 1843. 2. Samuel Phelps Strong, (David, David), born Aug. 5, 1817, married March 27, 1854, Fanny Stevens, born July 8, 1832. He died previous to 1898, at which date his widow was living at West Brat tleboro, Vt. Children: L DAVID LUTHER, b. Jan. 8, 1855; d. March 15, 1864. ii. ABBY SARAH, b. Oct. 1, 1857; d. Feb. 19, 1864. iii. OLIVE JEANETTE, b. Dec. 7, 1860; d. Feb.10, 1864. iv. HENRIETIA ELECTA, b. Feb. 19, 1866. ABIGAIL STRONG, daughter of David and Sarah (Warner) Strong, (twin with David), was born at Stafford, Dec. 11, 1776; died there Oct. 11, 1816. She married Thurston Carpenter, born Oct. 2, 1776, son of Deacon John Carpenter. He was a farmer at Stafford and died there, Aug. 2, 1837. They had eleven children, one of whom, Abigail, married Wyllys Ellis, a merchant of Stafford, and had four children. For particulars, see Dwight's genealogy. SAMUEL STRONG, son of David Strong by his second wife, Jane Groves, was baptized at Stafford May 2, 1779; died there May 15, 1817, in the prime of life. He married Rebecca Cross, of Mansfield, Conn.; no children. He is buried in the cemetery near Stafford P. 0. His name is inscribed on his grave-stone as "Captain Samuel Strong," from which it appears that he, like his father, was captain of the local military company. EUNICE STRONG, daughter of David and Jane (Groves) Strong, was born at Stafford, Dec. 19, 1781. She married, April 4, 1805, as his second wife, Jehiel Cross, of Mansfield, born April 20, 1767, son of Peter and Alice (Warner) Cross. Child: [74] i. AusTIN CRoss, b. Sept. 27, 1806. Jehiel Cross' mother, Alice (Warner), was a sister of Sarah Warner, there £ore he was a first cousin of Eliphalet and John Stoughton Strong. His first wife was Hannah Sessions, by whom he had a son, J ehiel Warner Cross, born Aug. 8, 1797. Jehiel, Jr., who was a resident of Strongsville, died at Rutland, Wis., in 1863. He married in 1824 Lovisa Bosworth; their daughter, Mrs. Orrill C. Graves, was living at Strongsville in 1901. AZUBAH STRONG, daughter of David and Jane (Groves) Strong, was horn at Stafford, Feb. 2, 1783. She married Deacon Samuel Lyon, of Stafford, who was a farmer there. No record of this family seems to have been preserved. Her grave is in the "Old Stafford Street" cemetery. MARY STRONG, daughter of David and Jane (Groves) Strong, was born at Stafford, Sept. 10, 1786; died at Strongsville, May 31, 1829. She married, May 23, 1804, Eliakim Lyon. (His descendants prefer the spelling "Liakim") . He was horn at Woodstock, Conn., Nov. 3, 1781; died at Strongsville, June 17, 1856. They came to Strongsville in 1818 and shared in the pioneer life and development of the township. In the history of Strongsville she is referred to as a pioneer woman of great worth. For a record of their large family, see pages 1101-3 of the Strong genealogy. In the list of David Strong's children there were two Hannahs, two Davids and two Azubahs, the younger of which in each case died early. [75] APPENDIX The promise was made to include in the pedigree chart of Eliphalet and John Stoughton Strong (see page 6), their descent in all lines from the immigrant ancestor. One page being found in• sufficient for a table of the requisite size, the following additions are necessary: MAJOR WILLIAM BRADFORD, who married Alice Richards, was the son of Gov. William Bradford, of whose coming in the May• flower it is unnecessarv., to sneak,. further. Alice Richards was the daughter of Thomas, of Weymouth. WILLIAM ADAMS, who married Elizabeth Stacy, was the son of William Adams, who was born in England in 1594, came to America in 1628 and died in 1661. Elizabeth Stacy was the daughter of Simon Stacy, a native of Bocking, Essex Co., England. THOMAS BISSELL, who married Abigail Moore, was the son of John Bissell, who settled at Windsor before 1640 and died in 1677. Abigail Moore was the daughter of Deacon John Moore, who came over in the "Mary and John" and was among the first settlers of Windsor. He married Abigail ----- MICHAEL METCALF, who married Mary Fairbanks, was the son of Michael Metcalf, born 1586, who came over from Norwich, Eng land, in 1637, settled at Dedham and died in 1664. His wife's name was Sarah. Mary Fairbanks was the daughter of John Fairbanks, an early settler of Dedham. THOMAS STOUGHTON was the son of Thomas, a native of England. Thomas Jr.'s wife Mary was the daughter of William Wadsworth, born in England, a prominent early resident of Hartford. THOMAS BUCKLAND was doubtless born in England. His wife Temperance was the daughter of Nicholas Denslow, a pioneer of Windsor. [76] The Mayflower Lineage I. WILLIAM BRADFORD, Governor of Plymouth Colony and second signer of the Mayflower Compact. TI. Major William Bradford and Alice Richards. Authorities Vol. Pas• III. Alice Bradford Mitchell's Bridgewater 359B b. 1662-3 Mitchell's Bridgewater 359B married (1) N. E. H.-G. Reg. 4 46B 22 Mar. 1680 Savage's Gen. Diet. 1 232 Rev. William Adams Savage's Gen. Diet. 1 232 d. Dedham, Mass. Dedham Records (Hill) 1 20 17 Aug. 1685 Dedham Records (Hill) 1 20 IV. Abiel Adams Dedham Records (Hill) 1 21 b. Dedham, Mass. Dedham Records (Hill) 1 21 15 Dec. 1685 Dedham Records (Hill) 1 21 m. (int.) Falmouth, Mass. Genealogical Advertiser 4 113-14 3 Sept. 1707 Genealogical Advertiser 4 113-14 Rev. Joseph Metcalf N. E. H.-G. Reg. 9 127B b. Dedham, Mass. Dedham Records (Hill) 1 18 11 April 1682 Dedham Records (Hill) 1 18 d. Falmouth, Mass. Genealogical Advertiser 4 118B 24 May 1723 Genealogical Advertiser 4 118B V. Delight Metcalf Genealogical Advertiser 4 114B b. Falmouth, Mas!. Genealogical Advertiser 4 114B 1 May 1719 Genealogical Advertiser 4 114B m. Mansfield, Conn. Mansfield Records (Dimock) 294 7 June 1737 Mansfield Records (Dimock) 294 Thomas Warner Mansfield Records (Dimock) 294 b. Apr. 1705 Warner Genealogy (Warner) 78 d. Ashford, Conn. Warner Genealogy (Warner) 127 1756 Warner Genealogy (Warner) 127 VI. Sarah Warner Mansfield Records (Dimock) 190 b. Mansfield, Conn. Mansfield Records (Dimock) 190 9 May 1740 Mansfield Records (Dimock) 190 d. Stafford, Conn. Epitaph "Old Stafford St." Cemetery 11 March 1777 Epitaph "Old Stafford St.'' Cemetery m. Stafford, Conn. Stafford Town Records A 140 27 Nov.1760 Stafford Town Records A 140 David Strong Stafford Town Records A 140 b. Windsor, Conn. Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1088 4 June 1736 Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1088 d. Stafford, Conn. Epitaph "Old Stafford St." Cemetery 8 Oct. 1811 Epitaph "Old Stafford St." Cemetery VII. John Stoughton Strong Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1090 b. Stafford, Conn. Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1090 19 July 1771 Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1090 d. Strongsville, Ohio Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1095 23 Feb. 1863 Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1095 m. Marlboro, Vt. Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1095 June 1795 Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1095 Tamar Whitney Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1095 h. 9 July 1779 Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1095 d. Strongsville, Ohio Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1095 2Aug.1856 Strong Genealogy (Dwight) 2 1095 No authority is required for the first two generations. "Family knowledge" is accepted for the last three. For descendants of Eliphalet Strong the authorities are of course the same, to and including No. 6. The Strong Genealogy, by Dwight, furnishes authority for the dates of birth, marriage and death of Eliphalet and his -wife Marcia. See pages 1090 and 1091. [77] Gov. Caleb Strong's "Account" He (John Strong) was born and lived in England at Taunton in Somersetshire. His father, whose name was Richard, died while his son was young. His grandfather, who was a Roman Catholic, lived to be very old, but died before his grandson left England. He came to America in the year 1630. He sailed from Plymouth in England, in company with Mr. Warham, Maverick, Mason, Clap, etc., and arrived at Nantasket on the 30th of May, of that year, and settled at Dor chester. He married his first wife in England, who died immediately after landing in this country; leaving two young children, the young est of which died in two months after its mother. Hem. his 2d wife, whose name was Abigail Ford (she was sister to Capt. Ciap's wife,) at Dorchester in 1635 or 1636. He afterwards removed from Dorchester to Windsor in Connecticut, and with four others, to-wit: Messrs. Mason, Ludlow, Wolcott and Stoughton, was appointed to superin tend and bring forward the settlement at that place. He lived there several years and from thence removed to Northampton, in the year 1659 or 1660, where he died April 14, 1699, about 94 years old. He was the first ruling elder of the church in Northampton. His wife d. July 6, 1688. A sister of his came with him from England, who after wards m. a person by the name of Dean. He had 16 children, besides that which d. young as above mentioned. (Here follows a list of his children, with more or less complete records of their families). I have put all the sons before any of the daughters, for I have never been able to learn anything more of the order of their births than that of the sons and daughters by themselves. They were all born hefore the family came to Northampton except the youngest son and the youngest daughter. May 26, 1777. CALEB STRONG. Abstract of the Will of George Strong of Chard ('Elder John Strong's Grandfather) I give to Thomas Strong my son 6s 8d to be paid within one month after my decease. I give to John Strong my grandchild 6s 8d to be paid within a month after my decease. I give to William Strong my grandchild £20 due to me from George Cookney and Nicholas Staple, as by their several specialties appeareth. [78] More I give to the said William Strong five pewter platters, two "Poudgers," one bason, four saucers, two salt-cellars and two brass candlesticks. I give to Marie Strong my grandchild, daughter of Walter Strong, my son, £10 which Thomas Parris oweth me, as by his bond appeareth, and more I give her my brass crock and my lesser brass pan. I give to Elizabeth Strong one other daughter of the said Walter Strong, £10 due upon bond from Nicholas Staple, and more I give her my best brass pan and lesser brass crock. I give to Joane Strong daughter of the said Walter Strong £10. I will that my hoard and cupboard in my now dwelling house shall remain and he as implements and appurtenances to the same for ever. Ali the rest of my goods and chattels whatsoever (my debts, lega cies and funeral expenses being paid) I give and bequeath to my son Walter Strong, whom I make and ordain sole executor. I desire my good friends Thomas Legg the younger and Thomas Bowdich of Wickraft to be my overseers. Witnesses, Thomas Pittes, scrivener, John Rives, Richard Ray, Thomas Burrage. Dated 29 November 1627; Proved 13 February 1635-6. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury. 15 Pile.) The Will of John Stronge, of Chard (Elder John's Father) In the name of God, Amen, whereas the said JOHN STRONGE Heth sicke of Bodie but of good and perfect memory, thankes be unto God, Doe here make my laste will and testamt. ltm. I gyve unto the poore of Chard land 4s. I gyve unto the Church 2s. I gyve unto my son John Stronge IOii. I gyve unto my Childe that my wief gooth wthall lOli. My will is that either of them dye it shall remayne to the other untill they he of lawful yeares. I gyve unto my brother Thomas Stronges Daughter, my God-daughter 2s. I gyve unto the other two ls a peece. I make my wief whole executor of suche goods as I have wthin Dore and wthout. I make my overseeres my father George Stronge, John Bowridge, Walter Stronge, John Warry. [79] My will is that this money shalbe left for the benifit of it at my overseers discretion. I gyve unto my overseeres 4d a piece. (No witnesses named and no date given.) -Wells, Bishop's Court, at Exeter. Will of William ( Strowng) Strong of Yeovil (Probably Uncle of Elder John) In the Name of God Amen the xxix day of July and a ...... the course and computacion of the church, one thousand syxe houndred and thyrtyng. I William Strowng the .- ..... elder of Yevell being syke of body and holl of mynd thanks be unto God do make this my last wyll and testament in manner and form folowing. Fyrst I geve and bequeth my soull unto almyghtty God my maker savyour and Redemer and my body to be buryed in the holy buryall. Itm. My will is that Margatt my wyff shall have the use of all my good untyll my dofter Jone be of the age of xx yeres old but shall ..... decaye no part ther of except it be uppon excre ... y. I geve unto Margatt my wyff the there (three?) yards of corne growen uppon Francis Sutton land. I geve unto William Strowng my sonne part of my waring aparle to be delyvered at the dyeracion of wyffe and offeseers. I geve unto Samuell my boy xs to be payd hem at such tyme as he shalhe hownd prentis or to any other use as my overseers shall think good for hem. I do ordayne and apoynt my trusty frynds John Whit and John Whitby to be my overseers to se this my last will and testament to he performed acordyng to this my trew meanyng. All the Recedew of my goods and cattells as well movable as unmov able nott geven I geve and bequeth unto Jone my dofter whom I make my holl executour of this my last will and testament. No witnesses named. Proved 7 September 1613. -Wells, Bishop's Court, at Exeter. Will of William Deane of Southchard (John Strong's Father-in-law) In the Name of God Amen: The two and twentieth day of July, Anno D'ni One thousand sixe hundred thirtie foure, I William Deane [80] of Southchard within the parish of Chard in the county of Somersett sicke of body but of sound and perfect memorie thanks bee given to God doe make & declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following: First with a willing and free heart I render my soule into the hands of God who gave it and my bodie to the Earth out of which it was first framed, trusting assuredly through Christ Jesus my gracious Re deemer to receive them again at the last day, and being clothed with the righteousness of Him my Savyour to enjoy both soule and bodie the Crown of blessedness and life imortall in the heavens for ever, and as touching my goods where with God hath here blessed mee I dispose thereof as followeth: I give to the poore of Chardland twenty shillings to bee distributed by the discrecon of my Executor and of my sonne Thomas Deane one of my Overseers. I tern to John Deane my Sonne I give and bequeath a chest standing in the hall, a truckle bedsted & bed furnished, wheat sufficient to sowe the upper close of Broadfield, the halfendeale of that hay which is in Colefield, the remaynder of the terme yet to come in Broadfield together with the lease thereof. The residue of the terme yet to come in Ham Meade and the lease thereof, yeelding and paying therefore from the Feast daie of St Michael next after my decease to Susan, Ellianor, Margerie and Elizabeth my daughters foure pounds apeece yearlie during the contynuance of his now estate therein and soe rateably for any lesser terms of his estate therein at any other tyme then at the end of a full yeare happen to take end and determyne, Also I give and bequeath to him in money fortie shillings to bee paid him within three months after my decease. Item to my sonne Thomas (for that he is otherwise in competent manner provided for) I onely give and bequeath to him and to his wife as a remembrance of my fatherly love two silver spoons. Item to Walter Deane my sonne I give a Chest standing in the chamber over the Kitchen, a truckle bedsted and bed furnished, and a bible, also I give unto him ioyntlie with his brother lsaacke the lease or leases of the grounds named Wilbeere and Cantes and to 'gether with his said brother all profits on the said grounds to bee received and taken during the contynuance of the terme therein yet remayneing. Item to Isaache Deane my sonne I bequeath and give a Chest and little Fojlett or box standing in the lower chamber, a truckle bed furnished and the halfendeale of the hay in Colefield, and alsoe to gether with his brother Walter Deane I give and bequeathe the grounds above menconed named Wilbeere and Cantes, by them jointly [81] to bee occupied during the terme therein remayneing together with the lease or leases therof, alsoe I give him that little woodvine without the utter kitchen doore, and all tymber felled and all such rafters and boords reede and billies which I have, and also in money tenne pounds to bee paid within two moneths after my decease. Item to my daughter Susan Deane I give that bed and bedsted which is in the inner chamber with its appurtennces, one Skellett, a posnett, a great barrell, a side saddle, a coffer in the Inner Chamber, a third part of all my wooll, the Chappell and ye writeings for holding there of, and in money seaventy three pounds six shillings and eight pence to bee paid at the end of six months. Item to my daughter Eleanor Deane I give and bequeath that Cofer which is in the chamber over the kitching, a bedstead also standing there and my best feather bed furnished, a little brasse pott, one of my greater barrells, a pillion, and a third part of all my wooll and seav enty three pounds six shillings and eight pence in money to bee paid at the end of six moneths after my decease. ·' Item to Margerie Strong my daughter I give the least brasse pott of the three, my best cauldron and tenne pounds in money to bee paid within one yeare after my decease, and to her sonne and my grandchild I ohn Strong I give five pounds to be paid att the end of two years after myde~ease- upon sufficient discharge given to acquite my Executor thereof. Item to my youngest daughter Elizabeth I give and bequeath a bedstead in the Low Chamber, a feather bed furnished, a little Table boord over the entire, a coffer in the Inner Chamber, one of the greater barrells, the third part of my wooll and seaventie three pounds, six shillings and eight pence in money to bee paid at the end of sir moneths after my decease. And if any to whom any porcon is hereby given chance to dye be fore his or her or their porcon or porcons bee due to bee paid my will therein is that such porcon or porcons be devyded equallie hetweene my three younger sonnes John, Walter and Isaacke and my fower daughters, or betweene such of them as then bee living. Lastly I Hereby Ordeine and Appoynt William Deane my eldest sonne to bee Executor of this my last Will and Testament, and Thomas Legg, sonne of Thomas Legge the Elder and my sonne Thomas Deane overseers hereof, and in consideraeon thereof doe give to each of them two shillings. By mee WILLIAM DEANE. Read and published as the last will and Testament of the said Wil liam Deane. [82] And as touching the clause in the latter end of the Will that if any Legatee dye before his or her porcon become due, the Testator shewed that his meaneing therein is That if any of his daughters chance to marry and doe happen being married to dye that such her porcon shall then bee paid to the husband of such daughter. William Cogam, These being Witnesses:- Thomas Legge, Thomas Deane, John Gibbs No. 1. Proved 11th day of October, 1634, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Seagar 86. Will of William Cogan of Southchard (Supposed to have been- the Stepfather of John Strong) In the Name of God, Amen: the foure and twentith day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred fiftie & fower I William Cogan of Southchard in the county of Somerset Tanner be ing sicke in bodye hut of pfect memorie doe make this my last will and testament as followeth First I commend my soule into the hands of God and my body to be buried and my worldly goods and estate I give and bequeath in manner forme followeinge that is to say I give devise and bequeath the cottage howse in Southchard aforesaid wherein I now dwell with the hacksid garden and close of land thereunto helongeinge with theire appurtences ( after the death of my daughter Eleanor Deane wife of Walter Deane in New England) unto Eleanor Cogan my daugh ter and to the heires males of her bodie lawfully to be begotten for ever and for default of such issue male then to Joane Cogan my daughter and to the males of her bodie lawfully to he begotten for ever. And for default of such issue then to the heires males of the said Eleanor Deane of her bodie lawfully begotten and to be begotten for ever. Also I do give devise and bequeath all that my acre of meadow more or lesse lyeinge in Good Meade unto the said Joane Cogan my daugh ter and for the heires males of her bodie lawfully to be begotten for ever and for default of such issue male then to the said Eleanor Cogan my daughter and to the heires males of her bodie lawfully to be be gotten for ever provided always and my will is that if any or either of my said daughters or any issue male of theire bodies lawfully be gotten or to be begotten or any other pson or psons that shall have or enjoy any estat of inheritance by force or vertue of this my will shall [83] at any time hereafter willingly determine purpose consent or goe about to give sell allyene forfite alter lease or do away the said cottage lands and premises or any part thereof or her his or their estate title remain der or interest of in or to the same premises or parte thereof to any pson or psons by any way or meanes whatsoever that then and from thenceforth the estate interest and possibilitie of every such pson and psons shall cease determaine and be utterlie voyd as if such pson and psons had never hen named or ment in this my will. Provided also and my will is that my said daughter Joane shall have and enjoy for and dureinge the tearme of her natural life the lower or North parte of my nowe dwelling howse that lieth on the North side of the entry containeinge one lower roome and the chamber over the same and the howse at the end thereof together with the barne and con veyent way thereunto and one plott or pcell of ground for an herbe garden to be taken out of the yearde or court in such quantitie and at such place there as I have befor witnessed allotted appointed declared and bounded out. And also that my said daughter Joane JOANE shall have and enjoy dureinge the said tearme of her naturall life all that parte or pcell of my orchard that take up or wherein grows two Pancks of trees on or to• wards the south side of my said orchard nex adjoyninge to the court all the rest of my goods and chattles whatsoever (my debts beinge first paid) I give and bequeath unto my said daughter DAUGHTERS Joane and Eleanor Cogan to be equally divided betweene them. And I do make the said Eleanor Cogan my Executrix of this my last will and testament and do will and desire that my good friends Robert Cogan Clothier and William Palsery Tanner to be executors in trust dureinge the minoritie of my said executrix and that they would see my debts paid and this my will performed accordinge to my true in tent and meaneinge. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale the day and yeare above written. The marke of WILLlAM COGAN. Signed sealed and published in presence of Robert Newbery-Rob ert Pitts. Proved 23rd day of June, 1655, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Aylett 283. [84] INDEX ABELL Frederick 72 BALDWIN Delia 56 William 72 Jonathan 17 ADAMS Abiel 77 Lois 33 Edwin 73 William 56 William 76 77 BANCROFT Rhoby 45 ADDY Joseph 51 BANKS Charles E. 9 ALDEN Delia 56 BARBER Kenneth 14 ALDRICH Frank 61 BARNARD Joseph 16 20 ALLEN Adeline 68 BARNSON Harlan 70 Mabel 65 AMIDON Abigail 63 Peter 65 Alice 67 BARRETT Edna 70 Andrew 68 Edgar 70 Charles R. 67 F1orence 51 Charles S. 67 Sopha 38 Doris 67 Frank 67 BARRY Ella 38 Gilbert E. S. 63 George 38 Gilbert W. 67 Raphael 38 Harlan 68 BEA CH Carrie 68 Helen 68 BEADEL Maria 38 Henry 63 BEDFORD Albert 69 Horatio 59 Clara 69 Howard 72 BERGLUND Andrus 44 Jedediah 59 Emma 44 Lawrence 67 Lillian 63 BEVAN Lewis 71 Mary 67 Maude 71 Marcia 59 BIDDLE Margaret 48 Mildred 72 Martin 4-8 Polly 57 William 48 Norman 68 BISHOP Abram 59 Raymond 71 Edwin 69 Robert 67 Nellie 59 Stanley 72 BISSELL Eunice 25 ANGELL Ernest 39 John 26 Joseph 35 37 Thomas 16 26 Joseph W. 38 BLACK Erwin 52 John 38 Paul 55 Leolia 4-0 Robert 52 Mary Elizabeth 35 Roland 55 Mary Strong 39 BLACKETER Harrison 55 Myrle 39 Mildred 55 Norman 39 BOSWORTH Lovisa 75 Thomas 13 36 37 BOTTS Harold 45 ARNOLD Cornelia 35 37 Milton 45 ARMITAGE Clara 67 BOWLBY Sarah 65 John 67 BOYKIN Charlotte 49 Nathan 67 BRADFORD Frances 47 ASHLEY Robert 58 William 28 76 77 William 58 BRAINARD Asa 41 ATKINS Hattie 39 Betsey 41 John 39 BRAND Nancy 54 AUSTIN Lois 41 BRIGGS Ada 68 Thomas 41 Elizabeth 68 A YLARD Albert 38 David 63 Cecil 38 Edward 63 William 38 Philander 63 [85] BROWN Calvin 53 CLEMENTS Hugh 65 Edna 53 Myrtle 65 Mae45 CLOUGH Roger 68 Stanley 37 Stella 68 BRUCE Niram 3a COFFLAND Edward 69 BRUMBACK Blanche 53 Odessa 69 0. s. 53 COGAN Eleanor 10 BRYANT Almira 60 William 10 Francis 60 COLLINS Joanna 71 BUCKLAND Martha 24 COOK Aaron 17 Nicholas 24 Bessie 55 Thomas 24 76 Oara 52 BUEL Lydia 34 Elizabeth 17 Samuel 52 BURKE Simeon 26 COPELAND Nettie 67 BURRELL Abraham 34 COVENTRY George 61 Alden 48 Douglas 48 CRAWFORD Amy 52 Helen Strong 48 CRONK Cora 63 Herman 47 John 63 Jabez 34 47 CROSS Jehiel 74 75 Louise 48 Jehiel W. 75 Margaret A. 47 Peter 74 Martin Strong 47 Rebecca 74 Salome 34 CRUFF Grace 68 Virginia 48 Walter 47 Joseph 68 CUSHING Margaret 70 BYLES Abigail 63 DAILEY Lodieska 50 CALHOUN Mary 67 Hiram SO CAREY Jennie 53 DALE Amos 66 CARPENTER Abigail 74 Charfos 66 Thurston 74 Emily 66 CARRE Louise 60 Lyman 71 DANFORTH Rita 70 CHAMBERS Hester 33 DEANE Eleanor 9 10 CHARD E Elizabeth 17 John 7 13 14 CHAUNCEY Nathaniel 16 Margerie 7 13 16 CHILD Sarah 60 Walter 71014 William 7 11 13 CHRISTY Angie 65 DEMING Lydia 43 CHURCHILL Catharine 62 George 65 70 DENSLOW Nicholas 76 Harry 70 Temperance 76 Minnie 61 DICKEY Aura 39 CLARK Angeline 67 DIX John 50 Frank 64 Ruth 50 Harlan 69 DODGE Salome 58 Heman 64 Zebulon 58 John 16 Mary 11 DOHANEY Martin 53 Russell 69 William 53 William 16 19 DOWD David 43 CLAPP Esther 16 Tamson 43 Hannah 16 DRAKE John 39 Roger 17 23 Mary 39 CLARKSON Dolly 39 DU GAR Fred 69 CLEAVER Emma 62 DUNN Marilla 65 CLEMENT Sophia 42 DWIGHT J3enjamin 7 [86] EAKEN Lavada 55 HATT Mary 61 EDWARDS Jonathan 21 24 HAYDEN Levi 25 ELDER Elizabeth 71 HECOX Letta 39 Franklin 66 HERRICK Horace 70 John 66 Helen 70 Oreal 66 HEWETT Mary 16 Ruby 66 Ruth 71 HOLBROOK Lucretia 59 Vernon 66 HOLT Alice 67 Walter 66 Lucian 67 ELLIS Wyllys 74 HOLTON Rachel 16 ELLSWORTH Henry 30 HORNE Lucilla 42 William 30 HORTON Charles 40 EVANS D. H. 37 Horace 40 FAIRBANKS John 76 HOUGHTON John 32 Mary 76 Solomon 32 FARNSWORTH Alvin 35 Tamar 32 Marf 35 HOUSE Betsey 35 FILER Zerubbabel 16 Edwin 39 FISHER Therrissa 66 Mathias 39 FLEETWOOD Jane 53 HOUSEKEEPER Harvey 71 Marshall 71 FORD Abigail 12 13 15 Hephzibah 17 HOWARD Harriet 38 Joanna 17 HUBBARD Mary 57 Thomas 17 HUCKABY Alie 46 FOX Simeon M. 17 HURLBURT Mary 59 FRAZAR Rosetta 47 HYDE Ephraim 73 Thomas 47 Jasper 73 FRENCH Hannah 41 Nathaniel 73 FRETIG Alseta 52 ISHAM Lina 72 FULLER Abigail 41 JAMES Almon 74 GARLICK Adeline 37 JEFFRIES Andrew 38 GIDDINGS Martha 73 Helen 38 GLIDDEN Calvin 36 JENSEN Harold 71 Charles 36 Jens 71 Lucia 36 JOHNSON Hannah 33 GOODBODY Harold 54 Irene 33 Lyman 54 Phineas 33 Robert 53 JONES Margaret 43 Thomas 53 KAMISKI Hattie 45 GRAVES Mary 50 KINDIG Fannie 52 Orrill 75 Martin 52 GROVES Jane 29 KNAPP Sarah 62 Marcia 57 KNIGHT Hannah 58 Nicholas 57 KNOTHE Julia 68 HAINES Lourana 52 KNOWLTON Jessie 65 HALL Harriet 48 KROLL Augusta 46 HARMAN Hannah 26 LAWSON Esther 72 HARRIS Elizabeth 71 LEE Mary 16 Emeline 63 Mary 43 LEWIS David 42 R. D. 66 Pearl42 HASTINGS Elizabeth 32 LIGHTLE Otto 66 HATFIELD George 45 LOCKE Anna 58 Norton 45 LONGFELLOW Christine 71 [87] LOOMIS Caroline 72 NICHOLS Sarah 25 LORD Anna 51 NIEDERIUUSER Charles 54 LOVE Elizabeth 66 NILSON Anna 45 LUND Frank 46 OBERHOLTZER Abraham 37 Nellie 46 Ellen 37 LYMAN Richard 17 Susan 37 LYON Eliak.im 75 OGDEN Susan 48 Mary 31 OLDS Benjamin 33 Nancy 60 Mary 33 Samuel 75 OLSON Annie 46 Thomas 60 OSBORN Leverett 65 LYONS Effa 36 David 36 PARKER Horatio 49 John 36 Jamieson 49 William 36 PARSONS Aurelia 61 MATHER Eleazar 15 Joseph 16 Mary 19 MAVERICK. John 23 PEAKE Florence 70 McBETH Jennie 70 PEARL Gara 71 McNARY J. W. 60 Frank 72 MERRILL Lydia 43 PERKINS George 58 Orra 58 Hannah 62 METCALF Delight .28 77 Mary 58 Joseph 28 77 Silas 62 Michael 28 76 PETERSON Muriel 70 MILLER Flora 65 D. W. 70 MILES Myra 64 PHELPS Mary 47 MINER Charles 71 PHINNEY Abigail 73 Parkhurst 71 PIEPENBRINK William 68 MOORE A Hgail 76 PIM Isabella 53 John 76 PLATT James 42 MOORMAN Hazel 55 Nellie 42 MONTGOMERY Constance 47 PLUMLEY Emma 72 James 47 PLYMPTON Harriet 59 MORSE Adelaide 60 Jephtha 59 Alvin 60 Delight 60 POMEROY Medad 16 Lyman 60 PORTER Huldah 50 Samuel 60 POTTER May 44 MULHOLLAND Mary 68 E. C. 44 MULLIHILL Lela 45 PRENTICE Josephine 67 Lionel 67 MUNSELLE Mary 45 PRIDDY Fannie 53 MUSIC Mary 70 RAMSEY Helen 55 MYRICK Lorin 64 RANDALL Glen 42 Mead 64 John 42 Mildred 64 Myra 64 RAYMOND Emma 62 John 62 Nellie 64 REDWAY Ruth 62 NEEDHAM Anna 26 REED Edward 49 NEIFER Harriet 51 Florence 49 Amos 51 REID William 44 NEWBERRY Benjamin 22 Jane 23 REILLY Harry 68 John 24 John 68 Margaret 22 REYNOLDS Frederick 54 Mary 22 Natalie 54 [88] RICE Abigail 26 STACY Elizabeth 76 RICHARDS Alice 76 77 Mary 54 Thomas 76 Simon 76 RIEGEL Sprague 48 STEBBINS Abigail 16 H.K. W. 49 RISING Hannah 30 Thankful 17 Jonathan 26 Paul 26 STEVENS Fanny 74 ROBBINS Edith 54 Lydia 43 Lewis 54 William 43 Mary 34 STEWARD Olive 36 Solomon 34 STODDARD Solomon 23 ROGERS Bessie 39 STONEida54 ROLLER Mary 42 STOUGHTON John 25 26 27 ROSENBOROUGH Nancy 44 Martha 25 26 ROSS Deliverance 32 Thomas 26 SADD Harvey 43 STRONG Abigail 16 22 29 74 Sylvia 43 .Addie 60 SANDERSON Florence 69 Agnes 65 SAUNDERS John 44 Albert 36 Martha 44 Albert T. 60 Alexander 26 SAVAGE 11 Alice E. 60 SCHROEDER Fred 46 Alice T. 45 Marie 46 Almira 60 SCOTT Ann 17 Alvin 60 Thomas 17 Anna Louise 51 SESSIONS Hannah 75 Arthur B. 64 Arthur D. 50 SHEFFIELD John 39 Arthur J. 45 Margaret 39 Arthur T. 50 SHELDON Lucy 63 Avis 45 Mary 20 Azubah 27 29 75 SHEVLIN Crosby 48 Bela 15 Edwin 48 Benjamin 22 23 Benjamin 0. 33 SHORT Mary 44 Caleb 7 11 12 SIMMONS Albert 53 Caroline 37 Edith 53 Carrie 44 SMITH Alvira 71 Carroll 52 George 46 Celia 42 Irvin 46 Charles J. 42 Martha 55 Charles S. 51 Clair 46 SNYDER Benjamin 56 Clara 66 SPENCE Florence 69 Clarence 69 James 64 Clark Ross 43 44 SPENCER Alta 65 Cressie 44 Leland 61 Damaris 22 Nathan 61 David 26 29 59 73 74 71. David D. 63 SPITZER Adelbert 51 David Merrick 60 Carl 53 David W. 44; Jane 53 Delight 29 60 73 Lydia 53 Dewey 44 Lyman 53 Dudley 45 Luette 53 Ebenezer 15 16 19 Nancy 53 Edward A. 36 Roland 54 Edward B. 35 Suzanne 53 Edwin C. 43 44 SPRAGUE Betsey 60 Edwin L. 62 [89] STRONG cont'd STRONG cont'd Edwin R. 70 Lavinia43 Elbie66 Lewis 35 Eliphalet 29 57 58 Lloyd 70 Eliza 33 Lorenzo 41 Elizabeth 8 16 19 22 Lorin 64 Elizabeth A. 62 Lovinia 47 Ellen F. 61 67 Lovinia M. 52 Ellen M. 60 Lucy 26 Emma 66 Lurancy 57 Emory 33 Lyman 57 Emory M. 43 Lyman J. 59 Estella 70 Lyman T. 52 Ethel F. 63 Lyman W. 50 Ethel M.46 Mabel 42 Eunice 26 29 74 Marcia 59 Experience 16 Marcia A. 58 Frances 64 Margaret 4 23 25 42 Francis 52 62 Marie8 Franklin41 Marion 63 Frankl;n E. 42 Martha 24 26 Fred A. 42 Mary 16 21232429 Fred S. 61 Mary Ann 37 Frederick 35 Mary D. 4158 Faye66 Mary J. 33 George 8 Mary L. 60 George B. 41 Mary R. 52 George D. 63 Melanchthon 10 George W. 33 Myrta 44 Giddings 74 Nathan 19 Gilbert 59 Nathaniel 21 Gladys 65 Nellie F. 61 Grace 53 Nellie S. 44 Hannah 1'> 19 22 23 26 28 73 Newton61 Harland 49 Preserved 20 Harley 42 Rachel 34 Harold 45 Ralph 39 Harriet B. 56 Renda 32 Harriet E. 58 64 Renda E. 43 Harriet L. 63 Retire 49 57 Harriet S. 62 Return 14 16 20 24 26 Helen G. 52 Richard 9 Helen Louise 38 Ruby 62 Henrietta 74 Ruth 26 Henrietta E. 74 Ruth L. 66 Hester 16 20 21 26 RuthM. 54 Howard 45 Samuel 15 16 20 22 24 25 26 27 29 74 Ida 41 . Samuel P. 74 James 10 Samuel S. 57 60 Jedediah 16 Sarah 16 20 22 28 57 73 Jerijah 11 12 13 15 17 Sarah D. 64 Joan 8 Sarah E. 51 John 7 et seq., 16 21 Selden 36 John C. 49 58 Sheldon 45 John E. 65 Sidney 31 37 51 John Stoughton 27 29 30 39 56 58 77 Sidney E. 44 John Warham 22 23 Stoughton 32 Jonathan 19 20 21 Sydney 12 16 51 Jonas 41 Thankful 17 Joseph 16 17 23 Theodore 44 Josiah 17 Thomas 8 10 13 16 17 Katie60 Thomas L. 46 [90] STRONG cont'd WALES Solomon 26 Timothy 50 WALKER Polly 57 Tracy 54 W ARHAM Hester 23 Viola 42 John 22 23 Vina 61 Sarah 16 22 24 Virginia 37 Walter 7 8 10 WARNER Alice 75 Walter L. 45 Andrew 28 Warner 34 Sarah ·27 28 77 Warner Henry 34 Thomas 27 77 William 8 9 WARRINER Elizabeth 16 William S. 44 WEAVER A. F. 65 William W. 38 Lora 65 SWANNELL Harry 43 WELLS Jonathan 16 TAYLOR Albert 33 WHEELER Charles 72 Andrew 55 Clarissa 73 Fanny 33 Josiah 73 Francis 55 Lina 72 Fred 52 WJIIPPLE Sarah 45 Helen 52 Thomas 45 Isaac 33 John 33 WffiTE Hannah 34 Lyman 55 Harriet 49 Martha 67 Louie D. 8 Theron 52 William 34 THAYER Salome 58 WHITNEY Guilford 58 John 32 TOMPKINS Harriet 44 Jonas 30 31 Humphrey 44 Nathaniel 32 TRACY Frederick 51 Samuel 32 Ruth 51 Tamar 30 31 TROWBRIDGE James 60 Vina 58 Melissa 60 WHITON Julia 63 TRUSSELL Belle 69 Stephen 63 VAN HOOK M. C. 45 WILKINS Charles 42 Marion 45 Henry 42 VOORHIES Charles 48 Lois 42 Gordon 48 WILLIAMS Alma 52 Margaret 48 WOHL Ida 69 Marian 48 WOLCOTT Samuel 19 WACHTER Harvey 55 Martha 55 WOOD Marietta 46 WADSWORTH Mary 26 76 WOODWARD Freedom 16 William 76 WRIGHT Ruth 16 WAKEFIELD Martha 24 WYLES--26 [91]