Ida Lou Straach

Family/Spouse: Kennedy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Stephen Kennedy

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• Military: Fort Bliss, El Paso Co., Texas; U.S. Army during World War I for one year
• Occupation: San Angelo, Tom Green Co., Texas; an owner of a Cafe
• FamilySearch ID: LZBV-VGD
• Census: 1 Jun 1900, Fayette Co., Texas

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RESIDENCE: The family lived in Miles, Texas and then moved to San Angelo, Texas in 1933.

Herbert married Ida Marie Meyer on 10 Jul 1916. Ida (daughter of August Meyer and Lydia Klein) was born on 18 Oct 1892 in home near, La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas; died on 31 Mar 1988 in San Angelo, Tom Green Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZBV-VPN

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• Name: Gottfried Friedrich Straach
• FamilySearch ID: LZBV-VV4
• Immigration: 8 Oct 1889, New York City, New York Co., New York
• Naturalization: 29 Jul 1891, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1 Jun 1900, Fayette Co., Texas

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Some time after the death of his father, Fritz left Germany and found himself in Industry, Texas. He later returned to Germany for his mother, brothers, and sisters. They returned with him to Industry. In 1916 Fritz moved to Miles, Texas to farm.

OBITUARY: Funeral services for Fritz Straach, 81, ex-farmer in the Miles area, will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the Miles Methodist Church with interment in Miles Cemetery following. Mr. Staach, who had been bedfast for seven weeks and totally blind for about eight years, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Henry Stock, in Menard Monday. Born in Anhalt, Germany, April 4, 1866, Mr. Straach came to the United States as a youth of 19 and landed at Galveston. He settled first at Industry in Austin County, where he lived for some time. He and his family came to West Texas from Fayetteville Sept. 28, 1909, settling in Concho County near Lowake. They moved to Runnels County, near Miles. in 1914 and Mr. Straach lived there until blindness forced him to retire from farming some eight years ago. He had lived with his daughter since. His wife died in July, 1935. Survivors include the daughter; one son, Herbert Straach of San Angelo; four grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Pallbearers will include: Edgar Straach, Charlie Straach, Otto Finck, Ewald Straach, and Walter and Alfred Kiesling. Honorary pallbearers include: Ernest Kiesling, Gus Zuelke, Fred Saling, Ed Heinze, Charley Steinfield, Ben Moore, O. L. West, Judge Bigler, B. A. Lott, and E. D Kleine.

Fritz married Mary Caroline Finck on 19 Jan 1893 in Industry, Austin Co., Texas. Mary (daughter of Henry Finck and Mary Menken) was born on 27 Jul 1869 in Haw Creek near Fayetteville, Fayette Co., Texas; died on 3 Jul 1936 in San Angelo, Tom Green Co., Texas; was buried on 5 Jul 1936 in Miles Cemetery, Miles, Runnels Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZBV-V2S
• Census: 1 Jun 1900, Fayette Co., Texas

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Before moving to Miles, Texas, the Finck family was from the La Grange, Texas area.

OBITUARY: Mrs. Marie Caroline Straach Succumbs - Mrs. Marie Caroline Straach 86, wife of Fritz Straach, died Friday, July 3, at 9 p. m. at the Shannon Hospital in San Angelo, following an operation. She had been ill about two months preceding her death. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the residence of Mrs. Henry Stock, a daughter, in Miles, and at the Trinity Lutheran Church here, with the Rev. G. E. Perry, pastor of the church, officiating, Assisting ministers were the Rev. F. W. Henkel, Lutheran minister of Sweetwater, Texas, her former pastor, and the Rev. J. L. Wallace, pastor of the Miles Baptist Church. Burial was in the Miles Cemetery, and the Lacy Funeral Home had charge of the arrangements. Mrs. Straach was a native of Texas, and a Runnels County resident since 1909. She was born on July 27, 1869, at Haw Creek, near Fayetteville, in Fayette County, Texas. She was married to Fritz Straach on January 19, 1893, to which union one son and two daughters were born. Mrs. Straach grew up in the Methodist Church, and joined the Lutheran Church here in 1922, with her husband. Survivors include her husband, Fritz Straach, a son, Herbert Straach, of San Angelo, Texas, and a daughter, Lydia, now Mrs. Henry Stock, of Miles. One daughter, Mrs. Hilda Hennig preceded her in death in the year 1919. There are five grandchildren, Miss Vera Hennig, Elmer Hennig, Herbert Straach, Jr., Ida Lou Straach, and Imogene Stock. Surviving Mrs. Straach are also her four brothers, Henry Finck of Houston, Texas, Willie and Arthur Finck of Haw Creek, in Fayette County Texas, and John Finck of Miles, and a sister, Mrs. Adele Henrick of Castell, Llano County, Texas. A Sister, Mrs. Willie Raeke, of Industry, Texas, died in 1908. A large number of other relatives and friends also survive. Among others here for the funeral were Willie and Arthur Finck, Mrs. Adele Henrick, Edwin Raeke of Industry, Texas, and A. R. Eckermann and family of San Antonio, Texas.

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After the death of their parents, the Meyer children moved to Miles, Texas where they leased farm land (Oct. 2, 1916).

August married Lydia Klein on 28 Nov 1889 in Freyburg, Fayette Co., Texas. Lydia (daughter of Frank Klein and Marie Ritter) was born on 20 Apr 1865; died on 2 Oct 1915; was buried in Freyburg, Fayette Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZBV-VYH

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• Name: Gottlieb Straach
• FamilySearch ID: LZBV-FKR

Gottlieb married Wilhelmina Friederike Thiele on 9 Nov 1862 in St. Petri Church, Senst, Coswig (Anhalt), Wittenberg Landkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wilhelmina (daughter of Gottlieb Aemilius Thiele and Johanna Louise Juling) was born on 26 Oct 1840 in Wörpen, Coswig (Anhalt), Wittenberg Landkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; was christened on 5 Nov 1840 in St. Martin Church, Wörpen, Coswig (Anhalt), Wittenberg Landkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; died on 16 Jul 1910 in Miles, Runnels Co., Texas; was buried in Miles Cemetery, Miles, Runnels Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Friederike Wilhelmine Thiele
• FamilySearch ID: LZBV-JCR
• Emigration: Sep 1890, Bremen, Germany
• Immigration: 20 Sep 1890, New York City, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1 Jun 1900, Fayette Co., Texas
• Census: 15 Apr 1910, Runnels Co., Texas

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• FamilySearch ID: LDCM-NCW

Henry married Mary Menken. Mary and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LDCM-NCV

Frank married Marie Ritter. Marie and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]