Charles Reaugh Strait
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Charles Reaugh Strait
| Kelly Jo (Strait) Swick (View posts) | Posted: 16 Apr 1999 12:00PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Strait, Reaugh, Rickerby
Looking for any information concerning my father's father (Charles Reaugh Strait) who mysteriously disappeared around 1932. Claimed: Born New York City about June 13, 1898; Mother: Anne Rickerby; Father: William Strait; Mother killed in train accident in New York City 1899 or 1900; He and little sister put in Catholic orphanage until he was about 8; Sister died around age 12; Anne Rickerby thought to be burried in Greenlawn Cemetary, Trenton, NJ (exclusive mausoleum). Inlisted in New York, 7th Division around 1917. Served in WWI "battle of the woods" (Argonne?); Badly wounded. Carl Strait, surgeon, president of Illinois Medical Associaton early 1920's was supposed to have performed operations on Charles after the war. Father supposedly wealthy (large estate near Indianapolis, Indiana) died of Cancer while Charles was in military and had remarried a woman who had a daughter. They lived in Chicago or Detroit. Electrical Engineering degree from a Chicago University about 1923. Worked for North Continental Utilities Company in Chicago and Detroit. Worked for the Western Colorado Power Company in Durango,Colorado. Married Christine Herron June 17, 1930 in Durango. Lived in Farmington, NM. Left to find work elsewhere June 1932. Cut wood in Oregon Dec. 1932-Mar. 1933 address: Z.L.T.Mundell, R.F.D. - #1, Weston Oregon. Left for Boulder Damn Via Portland, OR. to find work Mar. 1933. Family has not heard nor seen him since. Charles' uncle George Strait died in Pueblo, CO about 1927 or 28, and owned "the Strait block" there. Charles had a metal plate in his head, many scars, a slight limp of the left leg and suffered from "shell shock" after the war. He had reddish-brown hair, blue eyes, wore glasses, had wide shoulders and small hips.