The Straker
family is usually associated with the
Bells Mines area of Crittenden County, Kentucky, but one child, the daughter of
William and Jane N. Straker, is buried in Piney Fork Cemetery, located on the
opposite side of Crittenden County. This
may seem like a strange place for this child to be buried, but it really isn't
when you realize that Jane N. Straker had roots in Caldwell County, near the Piney Fork area and
possibly even attended Piney Fork Church. Her parents, Alfred and Jane N. Moore, married
in Caldwell County 19 March 1810[1] and
lived in that county in 1820. They later moved to what is now Crittenden
County.
William
Straker, who was born in Liverpool, England, married Jane N. Moore 8 April 1841 in
Crittenden County. By 1860, they had
settled in the Bells Mines area. Together
they had the following known children: Mary E., Ann, James E., William N. and John Gipson Straker. William Straker was a physician.
Mary E.,
their oldest child, was born ca 1842
Crittenden County and married Ammon D.
Bennett 28 December 1859.[2] Mary E. and Ammon lived in Caseyville, Union
County. Ammon outlived Mary E. by several decades and sometime after 1900, he
and his daughter, Sallie E., moved to San Bernadino County, California. Known
issue of Mary E. and Ammon Bennett were
Addie Jane Bennett, Lydia Augusta Bennett, Sallie E. Bennett, Gib Taylor
Bennett, Harland A. Bennett and James L. Bennett.
Ann Straker
was born May 1845 and died September 1845. She is buried in Piney Fork
Cemetery.
Ann Straker
Piney Fork Cemetery
Crittenden County, Kentucky
James E.
Straker was born 27 December 1846 Kentucky and died 24 June 1913 Vanderburgh
County, Indiana.[3] He married Ellen Church in Crittenden County
30 December 1869[4].
She died 22 July 1908 and both she and James are buried at Locust Hill
Cemetery, Evansville. James E. Straker,
a coal miner, died suddenly after he had quit work and was going to the shaft
to be lifted to the surface. [5] He was living with his sister, Mrs. Charles
Bunge, at the time of his death. James E. and Ellen had the following children:
Edwin B., Robert Emerson, Daisy Pearl and Edith Nellie Straker.
William
Nicholas Straker was born 28 February
1849 Kentucky and died 15 January 1932 Herrin, Williamson County, Illinois.[6] A coal
miner, he married Ann Eliza Williams 27 January 1875 Crittenden County,
Kentucky. [7] They had
Otho Liston and Iley Christopher Straker.
John Gipson
Straker was born 7 March 1855 Crittenden County and died 18 April 1939 Union County, Kentucky. [8] John
Gipson married Mary Henry Harmon 22 March 1877 Crittenden County.[9] John G.
and Mary Straker were living in
Evansville, Indiana in 1900 and, in 1903, they divorced. [10] John G.
Straker moved to Saline County, Illinois, where he married Margaret
"Maggie" Tyler. John G. and
Mary Harmon Straker had the following children: James E., Henry C. and William
N. Straker.
It is
interesting that all of the children of William Straker and Jane N. Moore left
Crittenden County with the majority settling in other states. Most of the
children and grandchildren were coal miners
and settled on the west side of Evansville. As far as I can tell, none
of William Straker's descendants followed
his occupation of a physician.
[1] Brenda
Joyce Jerome, Caldwell County, Kentucky
Marriages 1809-1832, (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1996) 6.
[2] Brenda
Joyce Jerome, Crittenden County, Kentucky
Marriages 1842-1865 and Abstracts of Wills Book 1 1842-1924, (Evansville,
IN: Evansville Bindery, 1990) 82.
[3] Indiana
Death Certificate #490. Find A Grave
Memorial #112276417.
[4] Brenda
Joyce Jerome, Crittenden County, Kentucky Marriages 1866-1886 (Evansville, IN:
Evansville Bindery, 1991) 29.
[5] "Drops
Dead in Coal Mine," Evansville Courier,
Wed., 25 June 1913, p. 1.
[6] Illinois
Deaths and Stillbirths Index 1916-1947, Ancestry.com, accessed 14 March 2017.
[7] Crittenden County, Kentucky Marriage Records
1866-1886: 69.
[8] Kentucky
Death Certificate #23821 of John Gipson Straker, Ancestry.com, accessed 14
March 2017.
[9] Crittenden County, Kentucky Marriage Records
1866-1886: 85.
[10]
"Groom, 34, Five Marriages; Bride, 50, Thrice Married," Evansville Courier, 3 May 1905, p. 13. Article on
marriage of Carney Dorsey and Mary Henry Harmon Straker.
Published 28 June 2017, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
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