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Discussion of Brazilian Strong Lineages

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Discussion of Brazilian Strong Lineages
Originally published by: Maria Elisa Botelho Byington (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Note: The following is a reproduction of an email message originally forwarded to the Rootsweb Strong-List by Maria Elisa Botelho Byington on August 9, 1999:br>

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EMAIL From: Maria Elisa Botelho Byington 
To: [email protected] 

Subject: Identification and Message

Date: Monday, August 09, 1999 3:38 PM


                  Salute to the Strong Tribe!

         (I'll try to send this in a PLAIN TEXT format)


IDENTIFICATION: Maria Elisa Botelho Byington

e-mail:  [email protected]    (4web succeeded Tecepe)


Direct descendant of 3 Henry S. Strong (Copiah Co. MS), son of 2 John
Strong (SC), grandson of 1Edward Strong (Norfolk VA).


My line:


3Henry S Strong >4 Mary Matilda Strong >5 Mary Elizabeth (Mollie)
Ellis >6 Pearl Ellis McIntyre > 7 Albert Jackson Byington, jr. >8 Maria
Elisa Botelho Byington


two motives for subscribing to STRONG - D

      (1) completing the genealogical tree of Henry S. Strong

      (2) publishing "Letters ... to Miss Sally Strong  l862 -1869"

                        FINDING THE HOUSE OF SALLY STRONG
                         (or) DISCOVERING NEW RELATIVES.


     In 1867, after the Civil War, Henry Strong, from Brookhaven, MS,
with his daughter Sarah Amanda (Sally) Strong and other southerners, went to
New Orleans from where they embarked on the ship Marmion and immigrated to
Sao Paulo, Brazil. See History of this immigration and of the Fraternity of American
Descendants


     In 1998, my sister and I, while searching for material for a biography
of our grandmother, a pioneer in social work, in Sao Paulo, found a little
suitcase with wonderful letters written more than one hundred and thirty
years ago to our g-great-aunt Sally Strong by Tom Atkins, a Mississippian,
who was very much in love with her. These letters are being prepared for
publication in the U. S. A.

     At about the same time Janett A. Gibbs of Athens, GA, who had heard  of
the Fraternity in Santa Barbara, Sao Paulo, wrote to Noemia Pyles asking for
information about the Fraternity annual reunion, since she is a descendant
of a brother of Henry Strong. Noemia Pyles, wrote to Janett in Portuguese.
Janett gave the letter to a Brazilian girl in the University of Georgia to
translate it and the letter was lost.  While telling Noemia about our recent
discovery of the little suitcase, she remembered Janett's letter and handed
it over to me, since she did not speak English.  I was surprised when I saw
the name of Strong mentioned in Janett's letter for Noemia did not even know
my ancestor's name was Strong.

     How unexpected to suddenly come in contact with a cousin six
generations removed!  We corresponded through the Internet and Janett,
herself a genealogist, sent me a lot of information on the Strong and Ellis
families, to whom we are also related, for she was born in Hazlehurst, MS,
where most of the Ellis family came from. Hazlehurst is just next door to
Brookhaven and Janett still has relatives there.

     Among the papers she sent me was a newspaper article, of December 1,
1981, with a picture of the house built around 1857 by Henry Strong in
Brookhaven.  I was fascinated to see the house of my
g-great-grandfather because the farm and the house which Henry Strong built
in Brazil has long disappeared amidst a sugar cane plantation. Through the
web and the Chamber of Commerce
directory in Brookhaven, I contacted Betsy Smith properties, a real estate
business, and received notice from Mr Sydney Wilson with the name, address
and telephone of Mrs. Faye Douglas, its present occupant. Together with it
came the message: "Good Luck!".  Next I called Mr. Johnny Smith, a
photographer in Brookhaven, and before long I was receiving free-of-charge
pictures of the house as it is today!

     In April, 1999, Janett came to the Fraternity reunion in Santa Barbara,
SP.  In May I met her in Athens, GA, and we drove all the way to
Mississippi.  Janett is quite a driver.   We covered 1730 miles in eight
days!  We went to Jackson for the Mississippi archives. We visited with
cousins in Hazlehurst and searched for the Strong-Hill Cemetery on Dentville
Road. The abandoned cemetery, encircled by woods, is located on private
grounds, but thanks to Mr Gregg Morrison, who lives nearby, we found the
tomb of Henry Strong's wife and children and also of his father, John
Strong, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The tomb was marked in the
eighties by the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and we are now
trying to find a way to preserve the access to the Cemetery.

     In Brookhaven we met with Mrs. Faye Douglas, present occupant and
restorer of the old Strong house, and Dr. Natalie Herndon, its present
owner.  Dr. Natalie has invited us to be there next April during Pilgrimage
to tell the love story of Tom Atkins and Sally Strong! The house built by
Sally's father is one of the oldest ante-bellum constructions in that area.
There Tom and Sally met for the last time
(as reported in one of his letters) before she took the train to New Orleans
from where the group of immigrants embarked to Brazil.

     How much fun to find new relatives and roots of which, a year ago,
in Brazil, I knew nothing about for Mississippi was only a distant reference
for our family.   I  am thankful for all those who are helping me discover
my old roots and for the tips I have been receiving through Rootsweb and the
SFAA.  I also received, as a gift from my recently discovered cousin Janett
A Gibbs, Vol. V of the Strong Family Histories, with all the information on
the Edward Strong branch, of Norfolk, VA, 

Maria E. B. Byington, Sao Paulo,
Brazil. 
E-mail: [email protected]

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