(Jedediah Strong's) wife Mary d. Oct. 10, 1710, from the injury which she received the day previous by the fall of the horse on which she was riding (on a pillion behind her husband), when just started well upon their way to Coventry, together, to visit their children. The record reads thus at Northampton: "Oct. 9, 1710, Jedediah Strong, and wife set out early in the morning to visit their children, at Coventry; but when they came against the Falls (at S. Hadley) among the broad smooth stones, the horse's feet slipped up and he fell flat on the off side and by the fall killed the woman; though she was not quite dead then, but had life in her until the next day - yet never spoke a word."
