Joseph Straw and Elizabeth [Unk]

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Husband Joseph Straw ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1805 - Pike Twp, Clearfield Co, PA
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           Died: 1877 - Ferguson Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Baptist Cemetery, Jordan Twp, Clearfield Co, PA

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         Father: Christian Straw (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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   Other Spouse: Nancy Ann Thompson (1809-Abt 1858) 1 2 3

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Wife Elizabeth [Unk] ⁴

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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Templeton (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M George Straw ⁴

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           Died: Bef 1911
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2 M Harvey Straw ⁴

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3 F Alice Straw ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Straw

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He and his wife were pioneers of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.

He obtained his education in what was called the McClure Cemetery schoolhouse. After his marriage he continued to live for a short time in Pike Township and then moved on a farm of 100 acres, in Ferguson Township, where he remained until the end of his life, dying at the age of seventy-one years and six months. He was buried by the side of his first wife. After the Civil War he was a Republican. He had served as road supervisor and as assessor of Ferguson Township. To his 100 acres was joined 100 owned by his wife.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1010.

2 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 704.

3 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 15.

4 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 705.