William Allyn Strong Biography.   Winn and Grant Parishes LA.

Greggory E. Davies

120 Ted Price Lane

Winnfield, LA  71483

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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.)