Samuel Strausburg, who died at his farm home in
Jackson Township in the summer of 1921, had been a resident of Jay County
for more than fifty years, and at his passing left a good memory, for he had
done well his part in the general life of the community in which he had so
long resided.
Mr. Strausburg was an Ohioan, born in
Clark County, in the old Buckeye state, in 1840, and was a son of Jacob and
Susan (Grandall) Strausburg, who in the early '70s became residents of Jay
County, establishing their home in this county, as is set out elsewhere in
this volume, together with further details regarding the Strausburg family
in this county.
Samuel Strausburg was reared as a farmer in
Ohio and was twenty-three years of age when he came to Jay County. He bought
an "eighty" in Jackson Township and there established his home. He was a
good farmer and as his affairs prospered he added to his land holdings until
he was the owner of an excellent farm of 152 acres. On that place he spent
his last days, his death occurring there on August 5, 1921, he then being
eighty-one years of age. Not long before he came to Jay County, Samuel
Strausburg was united m marriage to Louisa Ayres who also was born in Ohio,
and to this union there were born five children, two of whom, Florence O.
and Margaret S., are deceased. The remaining members of this family are
Willis O., a farmer of Jackson Township, and concerning whom further mention
is made elsewhere, and Miss Viretta and Ellery Strausburg, who are
maintaining the old home place in Jackson Township, where they have a very
pleasant home on rural mail Route No. 11 out of Portland.
Biographical & Historical Record of Jay County, Indiana
Lewis
Publishing Company, 1883
Transcribed by Margie Pearce
Buried in Twin Hills Cemetery