Samantha's family history

Aron and Sam’s father married Mathilda (Aron’s mother)  but she left the father when Aron was quite young to return to Louisiana. Afte that the father married Sam’s mother, whom Aron hated.  When Sam was just two, her mother drowned in the river under mysterious circumstances. After Sam’s mother died, her father “went strange” and became morose, bitter and tight-fisted.