Samuel Strong
Mary Ann [unknown surname]
Ann [unknown surname]


                                                              +-William STRONG
                                                              |    (Was he George?)
                             +-Samuel STRONG------------------+
                             | b. 13 Sep 1813                 |
                             |                                +-[unknown name] (1)
+-Thomas Drake STRONG--------+
| b. 31 Oct 1844             |
| d. 2 May 1912              |
| m. 18 Oct 1867             |
|                            |
+-Ruth Ann HUNTER            |
  b. Jan 1845                |
  d. 24 Oct 1908             |
                             |
  Deborah E. STRONG----------+
  b. Dec 1846                |
  d. 20 Dec 1926             |
                             |
                             +-Mary Ann [unknown surname](1)
                               b. ABT 1821
                               d. 31 Dec 1848

                             |
+-Solomon S. STRONG----------+
| b. Feb 1849                |
| d. 6 Nov 1931              |
| m. 13 Nov 1877             |
|                            |
+-Susan Rebecca BAYNHAM      |
  b. Aug 1848                |
  d. 12 Jan 1922             |
                             |
  Mary STRONG----------------+
  b. ABT 1850                |
                             |
  Martha STRONG--------------+
  b. ABT 1852                |
                             |
+-Frederick STRONG-----------+
| b. 24 Oct 1854             |
| d. 19 Oct 1895             |
| m. 17 Mar 1887             |
|                            |
+-Eva B. CUMMINGS            |
                             |
  Isabella STRONG------------+
  b. ABT 1856/57             |
                             |
                             +-Ann [unknown surname] (2)
                               b. ABT 1823
Mary Ann's headstone is at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Twillingate. The inscription says "Wife to Samuel Strong ... A loving wife a mother dear".

Samuel Strong owned the schooner Willing Trader which was "lost at sea". The registry was closed in 1852.

In 1935 James Moores Strong wrote a letter to his cousin Chester stating "Do you know anything about Uncle Samuels family. Father left Twillingate and came here a few years after your Father and Uncle Samuel left for Canada or the States".

According to Thomas Drake Strong's obituary "He, with his parents and other members of the family, left Newfoundland for the United States in October 1856, and located in Aurora Jan. 1, 1857".

1860 US Census for Indiana, Dearborn County, Manchester Township:
M653, Film 252, P.79 1870 US Census for Indiana, Dearborn County, Manchester Township:
M593, Film 307, P.23 1870 US Census for Indiana, Dearborn County, Sparta Township, Morris Hill:
M593, Film 307, P.17(629) 1870 US Census for Indiana, Dearborn County, Manchester Township, Wrights Corner:
M593, Film 307, P.599

[Speculation follows]
I don't know when either Samuel or Ann died. The most recent reference to them is in the 1860 Census and I haven't been able to find either one in the 1870 Census. I think they must have died before 1870 because their children were scattered to other families.

William Burge (of Twillingate) mentions in his will a grand daughter named Mary Anne Drake. Interestingly, Samuel's first wife, mother of Thomas Drake Strong, was named Mary Ann [maiden name unknown] who died in 1848 and was buried at St. Peter's Anglican Church Cemetery in Twillingate.

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