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Norman
M. Strauch |
Norman M. Strauch was born on Nov. 12,
1885 near
Dawson, Fayette County, PA, the son of John and Mary
Hester (McKnight)
Strauch. He was one of two brothers among many Minerd- Minard- Miner-
Minor cousins to be killed in railroad
and streetcar accidents.
By the age of 14, in 1900, Norman had left his parents' home and was employed as a servant and farm laborer in the household of Frank and Mary Stickle near Dawson.
In
1920, the federal census shows that Norman lived in Pittsburgh, boarding in the
home of Edward and Gustine Matthey, and worked as a clerk in a retail grocery.
Norman married Laura Cease ( ? - ? ). They are not thought to have had children.
Circa 1926, Norman resided in Wheeling, Ohio County, WV. He received horrific news that June that his brother John had been crushed to death between two railroad cars in an accident near Brownsville, Fayette County.
By 1949, Norman and Laura were living at 132 Dolphin Street in the Hazelwood section of Pittsburgh, where he was employed as a conductor for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Tragedy struck in the wee hours of the morning on July 24, 1949, when Norman was struck by a moving freight train in the Demmler yards near McKeesport. Suffering from a crushed left leg and amputated right foot, he was rushed to McKeesport Hospital, where he "was pronounced dead upon arrival," said the Connellsville Daily Courier.
His funeral was held at the Fisher and Owen Funeral Home in Hazelwood, followed by burial in the Dickerson Run Union Cemetery.
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