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

Joseph STRAUB Spouse: Salome HILDEBRAND Marriage: 28 Feb 1881, Katholisch, Doggingen, Villingen, Baden Source: Kirchenbush, 1694-1900. Katholische Kirche Döggingen (A. Donaueschingen)

2.  Atchison County [Kansas] Obituaries (online at the Atchison County KSGenWeb site; no exact source given for this obit, nor a date):

Joseph Straub, 91, who came to america from his native Germany in 1887, died shortly before 6 o'clock this morning at his home, 1017 South Fourth Street.  He had been bedfast since January 1947.  A former resident of the Cummings community, Mr. Straub had farmed in three midwestern states and homesteaded in Cheyenne county. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Stanton & Stanton chapel.  The Rev. Edward Hauer will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Vernon cemetery. Mr. Straub and his wife, who died June 17, 1946, of injuries suffered in a motor car accident, had celebrations on their 50th and 60th wedding anniverseries. The Straubs were married in Germany Feb. 28 1881.  She was Salome Hildebrand. A son of Anton and Mary Model Straub, Joseph Straub was born Feb. 10, 1857 at Doggernin, Germany.  As a young man he served three years in the German army. In 1887 Mr Straub sailed for America in company with his brother-in-law, Thomas Hildebrand.  Mrs. Straub and their three children followed the next year and arrived in Fairbury, NE, March 12 1888. The Straubs lived on farms near Fairbury and Culbertson, NE, on their homestead in Kansas, at Norborne, MO.  And in 1903 settled in Atchison County near Cummings.  They moved to Topeka in 1918 and to Atchison in 1924, living in the same house since. Mr. Straub was a communicant of Trinity Lutheran Church.  He was an industrious and thrifty man who lived long and usefully.  He was devoid of selfishness and his own problems and cares were resolved by what he considered the greater needs of others. Surviving are six children, Mrs. Martha Long, Valley Falls; Mrs. Mary Link, De Witt, MO; Mrs Tena Loveless, Atlanta, GA; Mrs. Freda Price, Atchison; Anton Straub of the home and Joseph Straub, Cummings: 19 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.