From Susan Gates Davis

 

South Bend Tribune, February 4, 1924, Page 5:
Jacob E. Straup
  Jacob E. Straup, age 56, of Lydick, this county, died Sunday morning at the Chicago Memorial hospital after an illness of four months.  He was born in German township, Jan. 26, 1868, and had resided in this county all his life.  Surviving are his wife, Lillian Ross Straup, whom he married in Warren township; his step-mother, Mrs. Fiana Straup; six children, Mrs. Claude Petterson, Mrs. Albert Wedel, Mrs. Martha Trumble, Dorothy, Josephine and Frederick, all of Lydick, and four brothers, Dr. F. E. Straup and D. N. Straup, both of Salt Lake City, Utah, R. S. Straup, of Lydick, and J. W. Straup, Humbolt, S. D.