William Allyn Strong Biography. Winn and Grant Parishes LA. Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If you are searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. WILLIAM ALLYN STRONG The family came from Illinois, via Missouri and Mississippi. His father's name was Walcott Allyn Strong. He was born in Bellville, Ill. He married Elizabeth O'Quinn, who was a sister to Uncle Daniel O'Quin, we well known in early Winn Parish and so widely loved. She was born in Holmsville, Miss. They were married near the present town of Atlanta in 1845. He was a planter, and died in 1878, she in 1864. Our subject was born on the plantation near St. Maurice Sept. 14, 1847. He was reared after the old plantation style and educated at Bellwood High School and the State Seminary, then located near Alexandria. His advantages were good for his period. He entered politics early and represented Winn parish for a period and was later Secretary of State. He was then aggressive and determined. The 27th of Nov. 1870, he married Miss Nancy M. Simms. They have six children and have lived in this section all their lives. The Major is a Methodist and a Mason. He was a private soldier in the Civil War. He is the editor of the Southern Sentinel, one of the old papers in this country, and Mr. Strong believes strongly in the great growth of our future, but says much depends on good roads. He is making an excellent paper for this section. Motto: "Do good to others, notwithstanding the revile you. Be sure you are right, then go ahead. Never turn a deaf ear to the dependent." Mr. Strong and the Sentinel stand for progress. (The above article appeared in Volume XXVII of The Guardian, no. 8-9, published September-October, 1907, at Winnfield, LA. The only copy of this newspaper known to exist was located at the Watson Memorial Library, Cammie Henry Archives, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA. Mr. Will Strong was an active Democrat, Mason, and Winn Parish civic leader.)