OBIT: Charles Gottlieb STRAUB, 1916, Stoyestown, Somerset County, PA

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Straub, Charles Gottlieb

  Charles Gottlieb Straub died suddenly at 3:30 a. m. July 12 at his home in 
Stoyestown from heart failure. He was born in Germany, July 26, 1844, but spent 
the greater part of his life in Somerset County, having come with his parents to 
this country at an early age. He first settled on the site of what is now the 
large mining town of Windber, where he followed the tanner's trade. In the 
spring of 1890 he located on a farm about 1 1/2 mile west of Stoyestown, where 
he lived and reared his 11 children. Later he sold his farm and moved to 
Stoyestown, where he had lived a retired life since 1904. Mr. Straub was well 
known and respected and many mourn his loss. Mrs. Straub survives with these 
children: A. H. Straub and Mrs. Emma Bantly of Scalp Level; Mrs. G. L. Dobson 
and Mrs. Thomas Stakem of Stoyestown; Mrs. J. G. Kocher, Chas. Strauf (Straub?) 
and Jacob Straub of Johnstown; H. W. Straub of Cleveland; Dr. Theodore Straub of 
Somerset; G. L. Straub of Welch, W. Va., and R. S. Straub of Boswell. The 
funeral was held at Stoyestown from the Lutheran Church Friday at 10 a. m. 
Interment in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery.

Meyersdale Commercial, July 20, 1916