I am going over my back e-mails. I think you have the family here. I fell heir to Mary Strittmatter Overberger's family photos from a daughter of Pauline Strittmatter Donahue, Lois Donahue Burns/Byrne. Lois didn't know who anyone was. Sophia Huber/Hoover's family pictures were there, too, and a descendant of Sophia's older brother helped me out there. I am beginning to wonder if Fr. Fred was at one time Fr. Henry--some of the pictures are not labeled and I have been trying to compare them to my g-grandmother's album, Helena Strittmatter Holtz m Leonard Holtz. She never labeled any, but her daughter, my grandmother, Rose Holtz Kline and later her brother, Walter HOltz, both of whom lived to 100, labeled most of them. There is a Fr. Henry mentioned, and I didn't know who he was. Where did you get "Fordrad" as a middle name for Charles--he was always called "Ted"--Donahue? That is a new one on me. His brother, Bill was married to Laura Mae Holtz, youngest daughter of Walter Holtz [mentioned above] but Bill died not long ago. They had a sister, Delores, too. I knew them when I was a child and they were at the dating stage. [I was the oldest in my generation of Holtz/Strittmatters.] Bill got in touch with me to get family pictures for Laura Mae, and I found out that he came from Five Points [Walasha-Sp?], Chest Township, Clearfield County. His mother's family moved to Patton, so I can find the name. Five Points is where my Protestant grandmother and her family settled, and we were comparing notes there. I did find out Bill's mother's name, but it was not spelled "Fordrad." The RR was built in the 1880's as a coal road from Mahaffey ,[ the connection to NY Central] to Hastings and then Patton to Bradley Junction and then Cresson and the Pennsylvania RR. It is one of the few RR still open and operating. I can hear the whistle most nights as it goes through Patton. Sometimes it hauls coal. Up till at least 1960 there was a siding for lumber and supplies to the Strittmatter Brothers Mill. The rails to the Hastings sidings have been dug out and a walking path made. Our Kline family farm is about 3 miles from Hastings, and the family had to buy back the right of way. The "Kids" started roaring along the right of way with four wheelers, so my uncle dumped huge piles of dirt and stone from one crossing to the other. I can remember the steam trains that set the woods on fire. There was a "old swimming hole" under a bridge at "Straight Mile" where we swam before swimming pools. The engineer always tooted and waved to us. At any rate, this aside was to say that many people from Clearfield County came along the RR to the new town of Patton, mostly shopkeepers, but also miners. My grandmother got a job as a telephone operator and supported her father and mother--he had only $15 a month for civil war pension [James Woods m Phylinda Wagner]. Patton is where she met my grandfather. Crissy Woods m Ambrose Feighner. I guess Germain and Casmir were the twins who died. Sophia was so tiny and thin she was unbelievable. Fr. Dennis and her son Dennis were thin also, but both were very tall. Marilyn Kline Washington -----Original Message----- From: Donna Noel Julian <[email protected]> To: Beth Rykhus <[email protected]>; Jack O'Connor <[email protected]>; PA List <[email protected]>; mho4 <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 8:27 pm Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Rt. Rev. Denis O. Strittmatter 1896 - 1971 Ok, here's what I have in a nutshell. All the children of Paul A. trittmatter and Sophia Huber/Hoover: Dennis A. Strittmatter (1890-1917) m. Elizabeth Kline (1889-1982) Amandus Joseph Strittmatter (1893-1961) m. Mary Ardella Bearer (1894-1966) *Father* Clair F. Strittmatter (1894-1968) aka. Rev. Frederick Strittmatter *Archabbot* Denis "Omer" Strittmatter (1896-1971) Note: photo found t ancestry.com at one of the public trees. Otto Thomas Strittmatter (1898-1994) m. Helen B. Bearer (1896-1998) Mary C. Strittmatter (1900-1973) m. Casper Joseph Overberger (1890-1965) Pauline Strittmatter (1902-1968) m. Charles Fordard Donahue (1906-1986) Germain Strittmatter (1906-1906) *Never married Casimir Strittmatter (1906-1906) *Never married. Soooo.... there was an Otto and an Omer. :) dnj - - - - - - - - - Search for more Cambria County information on our webpage: ttp://www.camgenpa.com/ ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message