Toronto's Historical Plaques

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The Stong Pioneer Family

Stong Pioneer Family

This was the second home built by Daniel Stong. It stands in its original location in Black Creek Pioneer Village. A short walk away in the north-west corner of the Village is the Stong cemetery. Attached to a cairn there is a 1960 plaque erected by his descendants. Here's what it says:

To the memory of the Stong pioneer family. Daniel Stong was born in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. in 1791, a descendant of Hans Stong (Stang) of Darmstadt, Germany, who emigrated to Buck's County, Pennsylvania, in 1709. In 1800, Daniel Stong and his parents, Sylvester Stong, 1746-1834, and Barbary Bolinger, 1769-1863, migrated to Canada. Here on this farm, he and his wife, Elizabeth Fisher, 1798-1885, built their home in 1816. On this site he built the Stong School in 1824, and later the church known as the Townline Church. He died in 1868, and he and his wife, with other pioneers, are buried here.

Location Co-ordinates: 43.775056 -79.521039

Map Stong Pioneer Family

Photo by Alan L Brown - June, 2008



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Posted July 13, 2008
I am the great granddaughter of Sophia Stong Deal who was born in Mifflinton, Juniata County, Pennsylvania in 1857. Her father was John Stong and there is little of that family to research ...I wondered if they had migrated to Canada....
I was born in 1942 and knew Sophia until she died in 1955....and she told me many stories of her youth and migration across the USA....by ox cart from Pa to Indiana, then by Train to North Dakota, then by train to California. She lived almost 100 years and was a very good woman...a faithful bible reader and she married into the Deal family which was part of the Bretheren assembly.
I wonder if the Canadian Stongs were also part of the Bretheren Assembly?
Diane Deal Tollefson

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