Caldwell County MO Archives History .....STRAHL FAMILY IN HAMILTON  
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THE STRAHL FAMILY IN HAMILTON IN 1868
	Narrators:  Joe Davis, etc.

     In 1868, in the rush to land along the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, 
came the two Strahl brothers to Hamilton from Ohio.  Richard Strahl had 
married Lucinda Bacon of Ohio and they came with their young daughter Laura.  
Richard's brother Otho also came to try his fortune.  Otho began work as a 
teamster and had plenty of work in the boom.  One of his daughters, Rachel, 
married Henry Leeper who had come in about that time to start a furniture 
store.  He was a brother of the rich Andrew Leeper who owned the Leeper Hotel 
of Chillicothe.  Otho's wife lived to be a very old women, but he died 1875 
and was one of the graves moved from the old Rohrbaugh to the new Highland 
cemetery.
     The other brother, Richard, died within a few months after his arrival 
and he was one of the first to be buried in Rohrbaugh cemetery.  He also has 
been moved, but his grave stone is in pieces.  His widow lived here in town, 
making her living as a dressmaker till 1877 when she and her daughter Laura 
went back to their old home in Ohio, where Mrs. Lucinda Strahl died 1894 aged 
sixty nine years.  Laura Strahl is often mentioned by old timers in connection 
with the days of Professor David Ferguson in the early high school.  She was a 
star in the "Last Loaf" a drama put on for the school benefit.
     This name is now quite gone out of the county, save for grave stones, and 
they soon will be gone.  Thus it is important in some way to perpetuate every 
early name which entered into Hamilton history.
     Interview  1934.


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