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1. | Joseph A. STRAHORN was born 3 Jul 1848, New London, Chester Co., Pennsylvania (son of Joseph STRAHORN and Elizabeth ALCOTT); died 24 Jan 1930, Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, Idaho; was buried Forest Cemetery, Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, Idaho Plot: E-29-06-S1/2. Notes: In 1846, Father DeSmet was among the first white men to visit Hayden Lake. But it was not until the late 1870s that the first homesteaders, Joseph Strahorn and three soldiers from Fort Sherman (Matt Hayden, John Hager, and John Hickey) settled in the area. Legend has it that Hayden and Hager, whose homestead was on the site of the present-day Hayden Lake Country Club, played a game of seven-up to determine who should name the lake. Hayden won the card game. Hayden Lake's early economy was based on agriculture, lumber, and recreation. In 1906, a branch of the Inland Empire Railroad electric line extended to the Bozanta Tavern. Hayden Lake attempted to establish an agricultural economy specializing in fruit trees-an endeavor that was thwarted by severe frosts that decimated many of its orchards in the 1930s. The post office was established at Hayden Lake in 1907, and businesses developed at the south end of the lake. The town shifted from this area to Government Way as automobiles replaced rail transportation. In 1959, the post office moved to Hayden Village. The area around Government Way is now incorporated as Hayden. The area from the west shore of the lake to a short distance west of Strahorn Road is incorporated as Hayden Lake. -History of Kootenai County, per Kootenai County web site. Joseph married Arabelle Electa MILLIKEN 29 Dec 1875, Ackley, Hardin, Iowa by Rev. George Earhart. Arabelle was born 12 Oct 1854, Illinois; died 22 Nov 1936, Hayden Lake, Kootenai, Idaho; was buried Forest Cemetery, Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, Idaho - Plot: E-29-06-S1/2. [Group Sheet] Children:
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2. | Joseph STRAHORN was born 6 Feb 1805, Chester Co., Pennsylvania (son of Samuel J. STRAYHORN and Hannah GHEEN); died 20 Jul 1876, Aetna Twp., Hardin Co., Iowa; was buried Oak Wood Cemetery, Ackley, Franklin Co., Iowa. Notes: "To the citizens of Aetna township the gentleman whose life is herein reviewed is so well known as a capable farmer and honest, upright and active member of the community, as to need no introduction. Frank P. Strahorn was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on June 9, 1851, the son of Joseph and Eliza (Alcott) Strahorn. His father was born in 1805 and died on July 20, 1876. His mother was born in 1812, and died on December 1, 1877. His grandparents, Joseph and Alcott Strahorn, were natives of Pennsylvania, of Scotch descent, and lived to be very old, dying in their native state. (his grandparents were actually Samuel Strahorn & Hannah Gheen -Ed) Joseph — Elizabeth ALCOTT. Elizabeth was born 27 Apr 1810; died 2 Dec 1877; was buried Oak Wood Cemetery, Ackley, Franklin Co., Iowa. [Group Sheet] |
3. | Elizabeth ALCOTT was born 27 Apr 1810; died 2 Dec 1877; was buried Oak Wood Cemetery, Ackley, Franklin Co., Iowa.
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4. | Samuel J. STRAYHORN was born 1769, Antrim, Ireland (son of Robert STRAYHORN and FNU LNU); died 10 Oct 1858, New London Twp, Chester Co., Pennsylvania; was buried New London Presbyterian Cemetery, Chester County, Pennsylvania - Old Section. Notes: 1789 Tax List in Horsham, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Samuel married Hannah GHEEN 1 Feb 1798, Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania. Hannah was born Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania; died Bef 1850. [Group Sheet] |
5. | Hannah GHEEN was born Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania; died Bef 1850.
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8. | Robert STRAYHORN was born Abt 1733, Ayrshire, Scotland; died Aft 1820, Chester, Pennsylvania. Other Events:
Notes: According to the Biographical History of Chester and Delaware Counties by Cope and Ashmeade (the copy I have seen was entitled Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties -Ed) published in 1901, Vol 2, page 394, "Robert Strahorn was a Scottish dissenter, who left his native land in order to escape religious persecution, and landed in America in April 1775, about the time of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. He enlisted three times in the Continental Army, serving through the entire war, and never receiving a wound. He participated in some of the most memorable events which marked the struggle for independence, and was a sharer in many of the greatest of the hardships which fell to the lot of the devoted patriot army. He accompanied Washington when the latter, on that never-to-be-forgotten Christmas night, crossed the Delaware in order to surprise the Hessians at Trenton, and he shared all the sufferings of the winter at Valley Forge. Robert brought his two sons, Nathaniel and Samuel with him to America in 1775." (Most arrival records recorded males over sixteen years old, so Margaret was likely not recorded -Ed.) Robert — FNU LNU. [Group Sheet] |
9. | FNU LNU Notes: She was definitely not Margaret Ross. Notes: No birth records, thus no mother(s), have been found for Samuel and Nathaniel Strayhorn, and the birth record for Margaret does not name her parents.
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