Samuel Strausburg

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