1847 - 1917 (70 years)
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Name |
Jacob S Strunk |
Born |
11 Jul 1847 |
Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
Gender |
Male |
Census |
1880 |
Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
(wife Lucy) |
Census |
1900 |
Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
(wife Rusie) |
Died |
06 Aug 1917 |
Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
Buried |
09 Aug 1917 |
Schwarzwald Cemetery, Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
Person ID |
I006276 |
Strausstown Roots |
Last Modified |
6 Sep 2014 |
Family |
Lucy Herbein, b. 07 Jan 1849, d. 13 Nov 1905 (Age 56 years) |
Children |
+ | 1. Sarah Ann Strunk, b. 25 Aug 1871, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 19 Jul 1900, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 28 years) |
| 2. Mary Strunk, b. 07 Jan 1874, Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 24 Sep 1941, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 67 years) |
+ | 3. Deborah Herbein Strunk, b. 05 Jul 1875, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 23 May 1938, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 62 years) |
+ | 4. Samuel Jacob H Strunk, b. 15 Jan 1877, Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 06 May 1949, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 72 years) |
| 5. Emma Rebecca Strunk, b. 16 Dec 1879, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 17 Nov 1943, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 63 years) |
+ | 6. Hannah H Strunk, b. 23 Aug 1883, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 26 Dec 1928, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 45 years) |
| 7. Grover Isaac Strunk, b. 1 Dec 1885, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 11 May 1953, Portland, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (Age 67 years) |
| 8. Laura H Strunk, b. 04 Sep 1887, Pennsylvania , d. 08 Apr 1960, Palm Beach County, Florida (Age 72 years) |
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Last Modified |
14 Jun 2010 |
Family ID |
F01786 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S151] Montgomery Bios, Morton L. Montgomery, (. H. Beers & Company of Chicago, 1909), 476 (Reliability: 1).
Jacob S. Strunk was born July 11, 1847, in Exeter township, and was reared upon his father's farm. He alternated going to school and working for his parents until he was eighteen years of age. In 1869 he became foreman of construction on the Oley turnpike, and was thus employed for four years. In 1873 he commenced farming on his own account on the Charles Brenheiser farm in Exeter township. In 1876 he went to the Amos Reiff property, which he farmed three years, and then coming to Oley settled on the Jacob Herbein farm, of 135 acres, where he remained for thirteen years, and then bought the old Samuel Hoch farm, one mile west of Griesemersville, near Limekiln post-office. Here he has since lived, although in the spring of 1907 he retired from active life. The farm is a fine property, consisting of 135 acres of the most fertile land in the Oley Valley. The barn, 98 feet long, was built in 1823 by Samuel and Elizabeth Hoch, who also built the big stone house, in 1808. Politically Mr. Strunk is a Democrat, and was school director of Oley township for six years. He and his family belong to the Reformed denomination.
In 1870 Mr. Strunk married Lucy Herbein, daughter of Isaac and Susan (Moyer) Herbein, of Exeter township. She died in 1905. They had these children: Sarah Ann m. Charles Cleaver, and died in 1901; Mary m. Edward Kieffer, of Reading; Deborah m. Solomon De Turck, of Oley township; Samuel m. Clara Hartman, and lives in Exeter township; Emma m. Charles Cleaver; Hannah m. James Fisher, who farms his father-in-law's farm in Oley township; Grover, unmarried, resides at home and is now a student attending school; Laura is unmarried.
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