U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Strader, Aaron (1838-1913) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Pages 470 and 473 Aaron Strader, born 1838 in Upshur County, son of Michael and Eva (Radabaugh) Strader, was married in 1859 to Priscilla, daughter of William and Mahala (Simon) Ward. Children, Ruhanna E., Ulysses Grant, William Michael, Dorcas E., Wellington L., Granville Lee, Jemima Catherine, Burton M., Asa, Asha, Mary Jane and Martha Ann. He is a member of the M. E. Church, of the G. A. R., a Republican and a farmer on Peck's Run. In 1862 he enlisted in the Union army at Buckhannon. Soon afterwards his leg was broken by the kick of a horse, and after recovery he was placed on guard duty where he served till the close of the war. The Straders came from Holland and settled in New Jersey, half a century before the Revolutionary War. About 1740 some of them settled on the South Branch in the present County of Hardy. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Register, Barbour County, WV (year 1913, page 356) FULL-NAME: Aaron Strader DEATH-DATE: July 6, 1913 at age 75-years MARITAL-STATUS: Married CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Cancer of Liver ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------