| Sources:
1a. Anon. 1966. Marriage Index: Ohio, 1789-1850.
Liahona Research, Orem, UT (Broderbund CD-400): not found.
1b. Allen L. Potts. Marion
County, Ohio, Probate Court Marriage Records, Vols. I-XII, 1824-1902
(online at Heritage Pursuit):
subjects' marriage record not found, but Rev. Benjamin appears to have
officiated at a double wedding:
| James, William |
Petterson, Amanda |
7/7/1853 |
Rev. Benjamin Straub |
| Petty, John D. |
Sandford, Eveline |
7/7/1853 |
Rev. Benjamin Straub |
2. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1820 (Broderbund
CD-314): not found, which suggests our subjects were not yet married.
3. 1830 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com;
Image #19 of 26; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| 1830 |
OH |
Fairfield Co. |
Bloom Twp. |
p. 164 |
Ln. 13 |
Benjamin Stroup |
100 110 - 110 010 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 1 male |
4 or under |
1825-1830 |
= Adam |
| 1 male |
15-19 |
1810-1815 |
= ? |
| 1 male |
20-29 |
1800-1810 |
= Benjamin (b. 1802) |
| 1 female |
4 or under |
1825-1830 |
= Mary (b. 1827/8) |
| 1 female |
5-9 |
1820-1825 |
= Susan (b. 1822) |
| 1 female |
20-29 |
1800-1810 |
= Elizabeth (b. 1802) |
The older boy is much too old to be their child a brother? nephew? hired
help? Listed 11 lines from Frederick
BENNER, whose daughter, Rebecca, later married our subject's son, Benjamin.
4. 1840 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com;
Image #2-3 of 6; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| 1840 |
OH |
Hancock Co. |
Amanda Twp. |
pp. 50A-50B |
Ln. 9 |
Benjamin Strout |
210 001 - 011 101 |
0100000 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 2 males |
4 or under |
1835-1840 |
= Aaron (b. 1838)
= Samuel (b. 1836) |
| 1 male |
5-9 |
1830-1835 |
= Benjamin Jr. (b. 1833/4) |
| 1 male |
30-39 |
1800-1810 |
= Benjamin (b. 1802) |
| 1 female |
5-9 |
1830-1835 |
= Esther (b. 1830/1) |
| 1 female |
10-14 |
1825-1830 |
= Mary (b. 1827/8) |
| 1 female |
15-19 |
1820-1825 |
= ? |
| 1 female |
30-39 |
1800-1810 |
= Elizabeth (b. 1802) |
| 1 |
person engaged in agriculture |
Who is the older girl? Hired help? Susan has married, so she
should not be at home. Listed next to Frederick
BENNER.
5. 1850 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image
#157 of 427 mis-indexed "Shroup"):
Amanda Twp, Dist. 48, Hancock Co., OH, p. 467B, enumerated 9 Sep 1850 (extracted
by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
1850: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see
What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
12 |
| 107 |
107 |
Benj. Stroup |
48 |
m |
W |
färmer |
800 |
Pa |
/ |
|
| |
|
Elisabeth |
47 |
f |
W |
|
|
|
/ |
/ |
| |
|
Benj |
16 |
m |
W |
färmer |
|
O |
|
|
| |
|
Saml. |
13 |
m |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Aaron |
10 |
m |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Hiram |
8 |
m |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Shelden |
6 |
m |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Thos. N. |
3 |
m |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Juliann Grines |
22 |
f |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
Column 10 means "married within the year," which would be a real bombshell
if it were true. But this census-taker must not have understood what
the column meant, for he appears to have misused it throughout his enumeration.
All I can guess is that, while he was literate in German, his English was
poor and he was obviously German because he spells Elizabeth with an "s"
and farmer with an umlaut-a (ä). That he didn't understand the
column is best exemplified by the census record of Benjamin and Elizabeth's
daughter, Susanna
(STRAUB) PLOTTS, who was enumerated ten households before them.
Susanna's name was ticked as having been married within the year, but not
her husband's! Not to mention that we know Susanna and her
husband were married in 1839.
6. 1860 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #70
of 85): Findlay Twp., Hancock Co., OH, p. 79A, 1117/1083, enumerated
13 Jul 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| Benjamin Stroub |
58 |
M |
United Br. Minister |
|
1600 |
Pa |
| Elizabeth |
57 |
F |
|
|
|
" |
| Aaron |
21 |
M |
Laborer |
|
|
O |
| Hiram |
18 |
M |
" |
|
|
" |
| Sheldon |
15 |
M |
" |
|
|
" |
| Thomas |
13 |
M |
|
|
|
" |
| Elizabeth Shoemaker |
15 |
F |
|
|
|
" |
Elizabeth SHOEMAKER is their granddaughter, whose parents appear to have
died.
7. 1870 Census Index/Images (online at Genealogy.com, Image
#9 of 30): Burnips Corners P.O., Salem Township, Allegan Co., MI,
p. 330A, enumerated 13 Jul 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤
1870: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see
What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
15 |
17 |
19 |
| 59 |
59 |
Stroub Benjamin |
68 |
M |
W |
United Breth. Clerg. |
1800 |
900 |
Pennsylvania |
|
|
/ |
| |
|
______ Elizabeth |
68 |
F |
W |
Keeping House |
|
|
do |
|
/ |
|
| |
|
Morehart Lucinda |
19 |
F |
W |
|
|
|
Ohio |
|
|
|
| |
|
Plotts Margaret |
10 |
F |
W |
|
|
|
Michigan |
/ |
/ |
|
8. 1880 United States Census and National Index (LDS Family
History Resource File: CD-ROM Library): not found.
9. Text from the Minutes of the 1873 Michigan Conference
(courtesy of Randy Neuman, United Brethren Historical Center, Huntington,
IN; via Nancy Holben):
| Rev. B. Stroub fell asleep in death in January 1873.
He was about 70 years of age and for more than 40 years a minister in this
church the greater part of itinerant life having been spent in the Sandusky
conference. The last few years of his life he sustained a local relation
to this Conference but in the years of his itinerancy was a faithful laborer.
He possessed a good mind and was a fair preacher. He was not without
his faults and yet he sought to be a Christian. He died in peace. |
10. Ruth Robbins Monteith. 1956. Abstracts of Wills
and Estates, Allegan County, Michigan, 1835-1872. NSDAR.
| File No. 967
BENJAMIN STRAUB, Salem, d. Wed, Jan 1, 1873 Salem
Heirs at law:
ELISABETH STRAUB, widow, Salem
SUSANNA PLOTTS, dau, Monterey
HESTER MOREHART, dau, Van loo, Hancock Co, Ohio
MARY SHOEMAKER, dau, Geneva, Ottawa Co, Ohio
BENJAMIN STRAUB, Jr., son, Hancock Co, Ohio
SAMUEL STRAUB, son, Hancock Co, Ohio
HIRAM STRAUB, son, near Lansing, Michigan
SHELDON P. STRAUB, son, Salem
THOMAS N. STRAUB, son, Salem
ELISABETH STRAUB petitioned Mar 12, 1873 that HIRAM PLOTTS be appointed
administrator which he was on May 5, 1873 with JOHN GOODELL, surety. |
11. Jane Peppler. 1999. Marion
County, Ohio, Deed Book, Volume I, 1821-1825 (online at Heritage
Pursuit):
| Page |
Grantor |
Grantee |
Date Signed |
Neighbors/Witnesses |
| 171 |
Andrew Stroub |
Benjamin Stroub |
03/04/1824 |
Paul Crawford; Jacob Crawford |
| 172 |
Benjamin Stroub and Elizabeth Stroub |
James H. Holmes |
10/22/1821 |
Benjamin Hillman; William Hoddy |
The 1821 date has to be wrong because Benjamin was still in PA in 1822.
These deeds are being entered in chronological order by recording date
in a bound book. Page 172 is among the pages of deeds recorded in
1824, and while occasionally a deed gets recorded at a much later date
than it was originally signed, three years is unusual. I believe
this out-of-sequence date has to be a case of misreading the record.
Also, Benjamin had to get land in order to have it to sell, and there is
no record of Benjamin having earlier patented land in the county, at least
not in the online BLM database (see next source). It makes more sense
that Benjamin got the land from Andrew (his presumed brother) in March
of 1824 and sold it in October of 1824.
12. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. The
Official Land Patent Records Office.
| Date |
Certificate No. |
Land Office |
Patented By |
Acres |
Aliquot Sec.Twp.Rng |
State |
County* |
| 21 MAY 1835 |
10881 |
BUCYRUS |
Benjamin Stroub of Fairfield County Ohio |
80 |
W½ NW¼ S27.T1S.R11E |
OH |
HANCOCK |
| 20 Apr 1837 |
15208 |
BUCYRUS |
Benjamin Stroub of Hancock County Ohio |
40 |
NE¼ SE¼ S23.T1S.R11E |
OH |
HANCOCK |
| *The county is not given on the original
certificate, which describes the location of the land solely in terms of
Aliquot, Section, Township, and Range. The county names must have
been added to the database at some later time, probably when the certificate
data were computerized. |
13. Letter
from Kate (MOREHART) THOMPSON, granddaughter of our subjects, to her
brother, Lindsey T. MOREHART, dated Jan 1925, in the possession of
Nancy Straub Holben, who kindly shared digital images of the pages (9 Jul
2001). Among other things, Kate's letter names Benjamin's wife, Elizabeth
HOSS, and their ten children: Mary, Susan, Esther/Hester, Adam, Hiram,
Aaron, Benjamin, Samuel, Sheldon, and Thomas.
14. Nancy Straub Holben. My
Straub Family of Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. FamilyTreeMaker
User Home Page. |
