Martha Ann STRONG ¹

  Research Notes:

Martha has been tentatively identified as the oldest daughter of Hiram and Rebecca Strong based on the 1840 census for Cole County, Missouri, which shows an otherwise unidentified female child in the 10-15 age range in the household of Hiram Strong. The only other known Cole County Strong family was that of Martin Strong (probably Hiram's first cousin) and Margaret Scrivner (Rebecca's sister), all of whose daughters are accounted for.

Martha presumably died before 10 Sep 1849, the date her husband James married Margaret Biles in Cole Co., MO. It does not appear that Martha and James had any children (at least who survived very long), for the 1850 census for the James Scrivner familiy in Cole County shows no children born before 1850.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census: 1840, Cole County, Missouri. ⁵

Household of Hiram Strong: Presumed to be the female age 10-15.

Martha married James Logan SCRIVNER, son of William David SCRIVNER and Mary Elizabeth PAYNE, on 30 May 1844 in Cole County, Missouri.^{1 4} (James Logan SCRIVNER was born in 1823 in Cole County, Missouri ⁴ and died before 1880 ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

If Martha is the daughter of Hiram Strong and Rebecca Scrivner, she married her first cousin once removed, for James Logan Scrivner is the son of William David Scrivner, Rebecca's uncle.