This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: STRAUB, Steffen, Arbogast, Herrold, Kerstetter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0IQBAEB/48.51.59.61 Message Board Post: Jim, I was just looking at your March 2000 message and have a question. Since Andrew Straub, Founder of Freeburg died about 1847, I have been unable to find any will. According to Dunkelberger in The Story of Snder County, page 134, Andrew died in the old stone house on Paul Kuster's farm which was a few miles west of Selinsgrove. I researched Andrew and his wife Barbara's transaction in real estate in Centre, Union, Perry, Juniata, Nothumberland and Mifflin. From 1809 to 1847 they bought and sold many parcels of land and in Centre County alone there were over 60 sales. I made copies of some of the deeds. Andrew's sinature is the same on all of the deed transactions. Barbara just made her mark. My question is:where did you find his will? You have done some great work supplying information for all of us. Thank you. ....Shirley Straub Morton at [email protected]

Looking for info on two Stroups who served in the Civil War with the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry. It does not appear as if they were related. 1) Stroup, John, Pvt Co H; mustered Jul 11, 1864, as a substitute; discharged Jun 29, 1865; born Aug 20, 1844, the son of Henry & Lucy Stroup; died Dec 1926 (not certain); a laborer from the Williamsport, Lycoming County area; 5' 8", auburn hair, blue eyes; shot in the lower jaw and right thigh at the 3rd battle of Winchester; married Elizabeth Stevens October 5, 1880; children: Chester (who disappeared with his father), Clora Bell (b. 10/10/81), Amanda Frances (b. 11/01/83), and Anne Blanche. (b. 05/15/95 - married a Van Horn); an abusive, alcholic man who deserted his wife and went to Indianapolis, Indiana; near the end of his life, he was declared incompetent and lived at the Hospital for the Insane in Danville, Pennsylvania; buried in Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania 2) Stroup, Joseph "Stumpy", Pvt Co A; mustered Sep 11, 1861; discharged Oct 13, 1864; born @1840/41 the son of Francis Stroup; died Jan 9, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland; a baker and wharf builder from York; ". he was not over five feet tall... chunky... he could talk good English but he showed the Dutch in him"; assigned as brigade baker in early 1863; sick in the hospital from after the 2nd battle of Winchester until his discharge; served one year in the commissary department in Patterson Park, Maryland, after the war; married Mary R. Hutton May 11, 1865, in Baltimore, Maryland; daughter: Cecelia (married Conrad Michel); Mary remarried Conrad Gottschalk in 1883