1.  LDS.  Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:  IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).

Simon STRAWSER Birth: 30 Sep 1814, <>,, Pennsylvania Source: [patron submission]

Maria GRAYBILL Birth: 25 Jul 1817, <>,, Pennsylvania Father: Jacob GRAYBILL; Mother: Barbara LAUVER Source: [patron submission]

Simon STRAWSER Spouse: Maria GRAYBILL Marriage: Abt. 1838, <>,, Pennsylvania Source: [patron submission]

2.  1840 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #11 of 14; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1840

PA

Union [now Snyder] Co.

Perry Twp.

p. 391

Strawser Simon Jr

100 010 - 100 010

0001000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	4 or under	1835-1840	= Son A
1 male	20-29	1810-1820	= Simon (b. 1814)
1 female	4 or under	1835-1840	= Bethany (b. 1838) = Sarah (b. 1837)
1 female	20-29	1810-1820	= Maria (b. 1817)
1	persons engaged in manufacture and trade

There should be two daughters born 1835-40.  Did the enumerator simply overlook the second daughter or did he mistake the gender of the second child?  The list is alphabetical, so no neighborhood reconstruction is possible.

3.  Census Microfilm Records:  Pennsylvania, 1850 (Broderbund CD-305):  Perry Twp., Union [now Snyder] Co., PA, p. 109B, 146/146, enumerated 19 Nov 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Simon Strauser Jr	36	M	Farmer		Penna
Maria Strauser	33	F			"
Sarah A Strauser	12	F			"
Betheny Strawser	10	F			"
Margaret Strauser	7	F			"
Diana Strawser	11	F			"
Barbara Strauser	8	F			"
Maria Strawser	5	F			"
Elithebeth Strawser	1	F			"

These four extra girls would appear to be Simon's nieces, living with them because their mother died.  We'll have to see which of Simon's sisters-in-law died within the last year or two.  Or did the census-taker simply get them out of order?  Listed seven households from Simon STRAUSER (Sr.).

4.  1860 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #261 of 364):  Mount Pleasant Mills P.O., Perry Twp., Snyder Co., PA, p. 555A, PN 171, 1223/1273, enumerated 12 Jul 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Simon Strawser	47	m		Farmer	500	300	Penna
Maria     "	44	f					"
Martha    "	18	f					"
Barbara   "	14	f					"
Maria     "	14	f					"	Idiot
Elizabeth "	11	f					"
David     "	8	m					"
George    "	1	m					"

It's difficult to reconcile the Barbara and Martha of 1860 with the Barbara and Diana of 1850.  Perhaps the discrepancies are census-taker error; perhaps Diana and Barbara died or married and two other girls (again, nieces?) have moved in with them.  It's hard to believe they have now taken in two nephews, yet if these are our subjects' children, then we have to explain a ten-year gap in births for Maria.  Doesn't fly.

5.  George W. Wagenseller.  1904.  Tombstone Inscriptions of Snyder County, Penna.  Wagenseller Publ., Middleburgh, PA (facsimile hard copies available from HigginsonBooks.com; online at the Snyder County PAGenWeb site):

p. 170	ARBOGAST'S CEMETERY. Located at Zion's Church 5 miles south of Fremont...
p. 174	Strawser, Maria, w of Simon S. b July 5, 1817; d Nov 13, 1890, aged 73 y 4 m 8 d. Strawser, Simon S. b Sep 30, 1814; d May 2, 1885, aged 70 y 7 m 4 d.

6.  Messages in the Graybill Family Genealogy Forum (online at GenForum.com).  According to posts there, Simon and Maria had only three children:  Sarah, Benthany, and Jane.