{"id":2264,"date":"2020-03-31T23:26:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T23:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2023-05-26T01:31:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T01:31:32","slug":"henry-w-strong-1849-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/henry-w-strong-1849-1927\/","title":{"rendered":"HENRY W. STRONG                                         1849 &#8211; 1927"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Henry W. Strong, scout, rancher, and frontiersman, was born in Carroll County, Mississippi, on March 27, 1849. He spent his early years on his father&#8217;s turpentine plantation in Choctaw County, Alabama. Strong left Springhill Catholic College at Mobile, Alabama, to join Company I, Fifteenth Confederate Cavalry, for service during the Civil War.<sup>qv<\/sup>\u00a0He moved from Memphis, Tennessee, to Texas in 1870 and in 1871 began raising hogs around Flat Springs near Jacksboro. About 1873 he quit ranching to become a scout and guide for Ranald S. Mackenzie\u00a0and later claimed to have laid out the Mackenzie trail in the winter of 1873-74. In 1878-79 Strong lived in the Gilbert Creek area in Wichita County. He went to\u00a0<strong>Hood<\/strong>\u00a0County in 1880 but in 1882 was back in Wichita County running a sheep ranch on the Allen Palmer place. Strong moved to Henrietta in 1888 and spent twenty years in Grayson County, 1889-1909. Because of his knowledge of the Red River area he was a witness in the suit of\u00a0<em>Oklahoma v. Texas<\/em>\u00a0(1921), involving title to the oil rights in Red River north of Burkburnett. Strong was living near Iowa Park in 1926, when he wrote\u00a0<em>My Frontier Days and Indian Fights on the Plains of Texas<\/em>. He married Pinkee Parks on July 7, 1875, in Jacksboro. He died in Palestine in 1927.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIBLIOGRAPHY: Louise Kelly,&nbsp;<em>Wichita County Beginnings<\/em>&nbsp;(Burnet, Texas: Eakin Press, 1982). Henry Strong,&nbsp;<em>My Frontier Days and Indian Fights on the Plains of Texas<\/em>&nbsp;(Waco, 1926). Ernest Wallace,&nbsp;<em>Ranald S. Mackenzie on the Texas Frontier<\/em>&nbsp;(Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1964).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The\u00a0<em>Handbook of Texas Online<\/em>\u00a0is a joint project of\u00a0The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin\u00a0and the\u00a0Texas State Historical Association. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry W. Strong, scout, rancher, and frontiersman, was born in Carroll County, Mississippi, on March 27, 1849. He spent his early years on his father&#8217;s turpentine plantation in Choctaw County, Alabama. Strong left Springhill Catholic College at Mobile, Alabama, to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/henry-w-strong-1849-1927\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4726,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}