Re: Peter Strait & Catherine Hummel Meyers
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Peter Strait & Catherine Hummel Meyers
Donalyn Dickson 1/29/00
Peter was my GGG Grandfather,
Peter Strait, b 1795 Belfast TWP, Bedford Co., PA; d 1886 douglas twp., Adams Co., IA, buried Baldwin Hill, douglas twp., Adams Co., IA,
The list of their nine children that I have is:
Elizabeth, Barbara, Jacob, Samuel, Anna, John, Henry, Rachel, Mary E.
Peter came to Adams Co. IA After his son Jacob establish a homestead. Peter came with son John, Dau. Rachel, and Son-in-Law John (Curly) Strait. curly lived with the family and was listed in the 1860 census with the family in Jackson twp, Pickway Co. OH, the two johns caused enough confusion that they all called the son-in-law Curly. Peter and Catherine had nine children. There were two families living together in 1860 so some children listed may have been Curley and Rachel's.
Peter’s second wife was well documented as Martha Thomas, sister of Sarah J. Thomas; both daughters of Major Thomas of Washington Co. NY.
Concerning Catherine Myers (Hummel) she was known to be born in Virginia in abt 1795, NOT PA and died aft 1860 in Pickway Co, OH, She married Peter, in 1819 Bedford Co. PA
My families records said she died in 1852, however, she is listed in the 1860 census along with her state of birth.
HC Barker’s notes indicate Peter’s first wife’s name is most likely Myers and not Hummel, This was noted by Iva (Strait) Nash in 1958 However The Account dictated by Jacob Strait in The Biographical History of Montgomery and Adams Counties, Iowa. state that Catherine’s surname was Hummel.
There was known to be and area called Hummel's town here she came from.
Again, I distrust the biographical History of Montgomery and Adams Co. as the stories were ghost written at $20 per family and contained many dictation errors. Corrections were often made in personal copies but the corrections were not published (note that the Biography account says Catherine is native to PA).
I don't know if anyone has ever really proved Catherine's sur-name. It was a mystery in the 1950's Attempts to find her grave by Iva (Strait) Nash in 1958 indicated the entire cemetary to be lost.
That being said, here is the published account of Jacob (Peter's son):
"Jacob Strait was born in eastern Ohio, on the Muskingum river, October 24, 1826, son of Peter and Catherine (Hummel) Strait, both natives of Pennsylvania, the former of German ancestry. Leonard Strait, an uncle of our subject, served in the war of 1812. Jacob was a boy when his parents moved to Athens county, Ohio, where he grew up on a farm and received a common- school education. His parents lived for a time in Pickaway county, that State, where the mother died. The father subsequently came to Adams county, Iowa, where he died at the age of ninety years. He was a farmer all his life; politically, a Republican; religiously, his views were in harmony with Methodist doctrines, although he was not a church member. He and his wife had nine children. Three of their sons participated in the late war. Jacob was a member of the Ohio National Guards, State Militia, and saw active duty when Morgan made his raid through Ohio.
Mr. Strait lived in Athens county, Ohio, until 1865, when he came to Adams county, Iowa. Here he built a log house, 18x20 feet, which still stands as a landmark of pioneer days. He now has a comfortable cottage home, good barn, fine orchard and grove, and 100 acres of rich, well- improved land, located in section 36, Douglas township.
At the age of twenty-one, Mr. Strait was married in Athens county, Ohio, to Sarah Thomas, a native of that place and a daughter of Major and Eliza Thomas. Their union was blessed with six children, five of whom are living, viz.: Sarah A., wife of Henry Taylor, of Brooks, Iowa; Mary C. Thomas, of Bedford, Iowa; Ellen, wife of Harrison James, of Douglas township, this county; Emmeline, wife of George Lawrence, of Nodaway township, this county; Peter, a resident of Douglas township. Mrs. Strait died February 12, 1889. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a woman of many virtues. In her death her family and many friends sustained a severe loss. In October, 1889, Mr. Strait married Miss Celona Clark, a native of Henry county, Iowa.
Mr. Strait is a man thoroughly identified with the best interests of the community in which he resides, and any movement which has for its object the advancement of religion, education or good morals finds in him a hearty support. He is a member of the Methodist Church.
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Hope this helps,
Steve Strait
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