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 1832 - 1910 (77 years)
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| Name |
Alonzo Strawn |
| Born |
8 Dec 1832 |
Welland, Ontario, Canada  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
2 Feb 1910 |
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)
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| Person ID |
I14918 |
Windemuth Descendents |
| Last Modified |
6 Apr 1998 |
| Father |
Hirum Strawn, b. 1777, Greene Co, PA , d. 1871, MO (Age 94 years) |
| Mother |
Catherine Wintermute, b. Canada , d. 1871, Durand, Winnebago Co., Illinois |
| Family ID |
F10481 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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