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    Alonzo Strawn

    Male 1832 - 1910  (77 years)


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    Generation: 1

    1. 1.  Alonzo Strawn was born on 8 Dec 1832 in Welland, Ontario, Canada (son of Hirum Strawn and Catherine Wintermute); died on 2 Feb 1910 in Rivera, Los Angeles, CA.

      Notes:

      Alonzo Strawn, son of Hiram and Catherine Strawn. Alonzo was brought to Winnebago County, Illnois by his parents in 1833. He enlisted in the 55th Volunteer Infantry Regiment of Ilinois during the Civil War and was injured. Some of his ribs were
      broken while unloading Army supplies. At his dicharge, he lived on a farm near Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, then moved to Michigan awhite and then moved back to Illinois. He then moved to Iowa and than Missouri and then back to Iowa
      and finally to California where he hoped to live near his son, Milo. He was afflicted with paralysis 5 years before his death. This story was related to J Donald Strawn in January of 1959 from the granddaughter of Alonza (Arlie Emma Strawn
      Kemmerer) -

      "I so well can remember my Grandfather Alonza. As the story goes, I was his pet. I can picture him yet in his paralized condition. He were kid gloves many years due to a eczema condition of hands, night & day. I stay'd with him so much as a
      little girl and played his graphaphone for him, got his tobacco for him and listened to his stories. He was a Lion to some and a Lamb to others - as the old saying goes 'Roars like a Lion, Gentle as a Lamb'. My brother Theodore Alonzo, who
      lives fifty-seven miles from me in Cedar Rapids, IA, was named by Grandfather Alonzo. He made a bargain with my mother to name him after Teddy Roosevelt which she didn't like. Alonzo said 'Well, she settled for a fancy reed baby carriage."

      (Copied from the files of "Bucks County Historical Society" Doylestown, PA)

      Family/Spouse: Mary Louise Knapp. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


    Generation: 2

    1. 2.  Hirum Strawn was born in 1777 in Greene Co, PA (son of John Straun and Kezia Dennis); died in 1871 in MO.

      Notes:

      War of 1812, Battle of Lundy's Lane

      Hirum married Catherine Wintermute. Catherine (daughter of John\Johannes Wintemute and Nancy "Lea" Leopard\Leppard) was born in in Canada; died in 1871 in Durand, Winnebago Co., Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


    2. 3.  Catherine Wintermute was born in in Canada (daughter of John\Johannes Wintemute and Nancy "Lea" Leopard\Leppard); died in 1871 in Durand, Winnebago Co., Illinois.
      Children:
      1. John Strawn was born on 24 Dec 1806 in Near Niagara Falls, Welland, Ontario, Canada; died on 26 Nov 1893 in Maynard, Iowa; was buried in Long Grove Cem., Maynard, IA.
      2. Mahlon Strawn was born in 1810 in Welland, Ontario, Canada; died in 1904 in Moberly, Randolf Co., Missouri.
      3. Jr Hirum Strawn was born in 1816 in Welland, Ontario, Canada; died on 7 Mar 1906 in Missouri.
      4. James Strawn was born on 9 Apr 1826 in Welland, Ontario, Canada; died on 2 Oct 1897 in Illinois.
      5. Job Strawn was born in May 1827 in Welland, Ontario, Canada; died on 11 Mar 1895 in Maynard, Iowa; was buried in Long Grove Cem., Maynard, IA.
      6. Nancy Strawn was born in in Canada; died in in Childhood (Killed by a falling tree).
      7. Nancy Strawn was born on 7 Dec 1828 in Welland, Ontario, Canada; died in 1909 in Missouri.
      8. Alonzo Strawn was born in in Canada; died in in Died in infancy.
      9. 1. Alonzo Strawn was born on 8 Dec 1832 in Welland, Ontario, Canada; died on 2 Feb 1910 in Rivera, Los Angeles, CA.
      10. Elizabeth 'Betsy' Strawn was born in in Canada.
      11. William Strawn was born in in Canada.
      12. Priscilla Strawn was born in in Canada.
      13. Mary Strawn
      14. Catherine Strawn was born in in Canada.
      15. Polly Strawn was born in 1836 in Canada.


    Generation: 3

    1. 4.  John Straun

      Notes:

      Information from Bob Moore.



      Much more informaton on the Strawn family is available on Bonnie Strawn-Miller's website at http://pages.prodigy.com/Strawn/hstrawn.htm

      John married Kezia Dennis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


    2. 5.  Kezia Dennis
      Children:
      1. Joab Strawn was born on 25 Dec 1772 in Strawntown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; died on 30 Sep 1854 in Roscoe, IL.
      2. 2. Hirum Strawn was born in 1777 in Greene Co, PA; died in 1871 in MO.

    3. 6.  John\Johannes Wintemute was born on 25 Oct 1747 in Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey (son of The Emigrator Georg Philip Windemoed and Maria Juliana Huber); died on 15 Feb 1824 in Humberstone, Welland, Ontario, Canada.

      Notes:

      Education: sold farm & moved to Humberston. Dtrs

      Maiden Name: married men named Strawn (2), Moses Done,

      TEXT: Stoffer, & Dennis.







      He was baptized 25 October 1747. It is stated in "The Wintermute Family History" that John married in New Jersey a Miss Decker or Windecker and that she died there. Both names were common in the northern part of Sussex County. It should be
      noted, however, that a family of Windecker's, also tory, lived in the Wyoming Valley before the Revolution not far from where the Wintermute's lived. John's name appears on the tax lists for the Exeter District of that Valley for 1776 and
      1777. He served in Butler's Rangers, and at the reduction of that Corps he settled in Bertie. His household is listed in a return of the Loyalists in Captain Bernard Frey's Company of the Rangers at Niagara 30 November 1783. [Haldimand
      Papers B105-A:381] The list names Corporal John Wintmot aged 27 and Mary Wintmot 24 followed by three entries with the name Wintmot written, but for which no first names or ages are given. If the age given for John was 37, it would be more in
      accordance with his baptismal record.



      A land petition from him dated 9 July 1795 [W3:137] states that he served in Butler's Rangers as a corporal and that he has a family consisting of five children. No mention was made of a wife. The following certificate of J. Ball, J.P., on
      file with the petition, indicates a second marriage for John. "Newark, 20 March 1797. I do hereby certify that corporal John Wintermute served in Butler's Rangers during the was; that he had a family before the year 1789 consisting of a wife
      and eight children; that his wife is the daughter of a Loyalist Hannah Lybs who came in the year 1778".



      The "Loyalist Hannah Lybs" can only mean Hannah Sypes, or Sipes, who did enter Niagara in 1778. This would mean that John had married a sister of the wife of his brother Peter, but additional evidence should be found to corroborate such a
      marriage. It is noted, however, that two of John's daughters were Hannah and Eve, names which were used in the Sipes family.



      John subsequently married Nancy Leopard (leppard, etc) but whether this was before or after he moved to Humberstone is not known. Documents on file with Nancy's land petition [L:3:35] indicate that she was married to John after 9 May 1797 and
      more likely after 1800. A power of attorney dated at Humberstone, 22 October 1832 states that "I, Nancy Wintemute of Humberstone, widow of John Wintemute late of same place, yeoman, deceased, and daughter of William Leopard, at his birth of
      Bucks County in the State of Pennsylvania, known before marriage as Nancy Leopard, do appoint Andrew Mercer of the town of York as my attorney to receive for me title to the south part of Lot 23 Concession 4 of Scarboro' containing 100 acres".
      Witnesses were John Wintemute (Jr) and Aaron Doan.

      John\Johannes married Nancy "Lea" Leopard\Leppard after 1797. Nancy died in in Humberston Township. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


    4. 7.  Nancy "Lea" Leopard\Leppard died in in Humberston Township.
      Children:
      1. John Wintemute
      2. Rachel Wintemute
      3. 3. Catherine Wintermute was born in in Canada; died in 1871 in Durand, Winnebago Co., Illinois.


    Generation: 4

    1. 12.  The Emigrator Georg Philip Windemoed was born on 21 May 1705 in Pfungstadt, Kries, Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany (son of Johann Christoph Windemuth and Maria Margarethe Kleppinger); died in 1779 in Bertie Township, Welland County, Ontario, Canada.

      Notes:

      Christened Sept 1,1707 in Pfungstadt, Starkenburg, Hessen, Germany



      Oklahoma Genealogical Quarterly, V. 14, #1, March 1969 - name was Jury Philip, m. Maria Julianna Houghtaling (Hoogeling, Huber, Hoverin). Philip came to America 11 Aug 1732 from Rotterdam to Phila. on Ship "Samuel." By 1745 he was in Sussex Co.
      NJ. In 1772 he moved with most of his family to Wyoming Valley in Pa. where he build Wintermute Fort. In Jun1 1778, the Fort was burned by the British. Most of the Wintermute family and several other families living in the Fort went to Canada
      with Butler's Army. Philip died in 1779 in Lincoln Co., Ontario, Canada

      1732 Census he is in Phila.



      "Pa. German Pioneers from 1727-1808" by R. B. Strassburger, Gen. Pub. Co. 1980 - List 19A Ship Samuel, Hugh Percy, from Rotterdam. Qualified Aug. 11, 1732.

      Georg married Maria Juliana Huber. Maria was born in 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


    2. 13.  Maria Juliana Huber was born in 1715.

      Notes:

      I am trying to determine the identity of Maria Julia Huber (Hover, Hoover) wife of George Philip Wintermute.



      A Johannes Hendricus Hover b. 1705 came to Philadelphia n 1735 and settled in Smithfield, PA before 1742. This was on the west side of the Delaware River in present Monroe County, Pennsylvania and only a few miles from the

      Stillwater area. He was admitted a member of the Reformed Dutch Church at Smithfield on 22 June 1745 and on 6 June 1746 Susana Holeyson his wife was admitted, having formerly been a Lutheran.



      Five known children:

      John b. 1738 killed in Indian raid. The raid was perhaps in 1756 when the Indian disturbances along the Delaware became severe.

      Henry b. 4 Apr 1740.

      Susanna bpt 14 Mar 1742 Smithfield.

      Samuel bpt 30 Dec 1744 Smithfield.

      Emanuel bpt 20 Sept 1747 Smithfield taken prisoner in same raid that brother John was killed in. Emanuel later served in American Revolution as a Captain. On 18 Apr 1797 Manuel Hover and Mary his wife of Northampton

      County, Pennsylvania conveyed 150 acres in Walpack to Jonas Smith and wife Mary, excepting one half acre, it being the common burying ground of Walpack.



      It is believed that a Johan Michael Huber who married Elizabeth Mennes, Catharian Huber who married Peter Conterman (Countryman, Gunderman, etc.), and Maria Juliana Huber Wintermute were perhaps siblings to Johan Hendricus (Henry). A Johan
      Michael Huber came on the ship "Snow Catherine" 28 May 1742. In the "Memorials of the Moravian Church" it is related that the brethern (Moravians) kept and preached a school in the upper valley of the Delaware on the Jersey shore in 1746 and
      1747 and were ministered to by a Joseph Shaw who came on the same ship as Johan Michael Huber and were the

      first colonists who arrived at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in June 1742. On page 75 in speaking of Johan Michael Huber it says "lost at sea in a hurricane on the passage to St. Thomas in Oct 1747 along with the missionaries Joseph and Mary Shaw.
      There was another Johan Michael Huber

      who arrived 21 Aug 1750 on the ship "Anderson." He is perhaps the one who married Elizabeth Mennes and had a son Johannes baptised Feb 1753 Walpack sponsored by Peter Counterman and Catharine Huber.



      The Hubers are mentioned in the parish registers of Trippstadt situated at or near Holzwald, six miles south of Kaiserslautern. Several Hubers came to Philadelphia in 1740's and 1750's.



      J. Kelsey Jones

      montrose@ptdprolog.net

      Children:
      1. Lennard Windemoot was born in 1740; died on 16 Jan 1814 in Coe Smith Cemetery, Sussex County, New Jersey.
      2. Philip Wintemute was born in 1742 in Sussex County, New Jersey; died in 1809 in Bertie, Ontario, Canada.
      3. George (Jury) Wintemute was born in 1745 in Sussex County, New Jersey; died on 1 Dec 1838 in Ontario, Canada.
      4. Christopher\Johan Christoffel Wintemute was born on 27 Apr 1746 in Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey; died in 1781 in service of Butler's Rangers.
      5. 6. John\Johannes Wintemute was born on 25 Oct 1747 in Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey; died on 15 Feb 1824 in Humberstone, Welland, Ontario, Canada.
      6. Abraham Wintemute was born on 19 Aug 1750 in Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey.
      7. Peter \ Petrus Wintemute was born on 10 Jul 1751 in Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey; died on 1 Dec 1838 in Bertie Township, Welland, Ontario, Canada.
      8. Elizabeth Wintemute was born on 26 Nov 1756; died on 26 Nov 1756.
      9. Elizabeth Wintemute was born on 28 Jan 1759 in Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey.
      10. Benjamin Wintemute was born on 27 Dec 1761 in Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey; died on 22 Sep 1841 in Bertie Township, Welland, Ontario, Canada.