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Francois Joseph "Joseph" Strub

Francois Joseph "Joseph" Strub

Male 1829 - 1916  (86 years)

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  • Name Francois Joseph "Joseph" Strub 
    Born 22 Aug 1829  Soppe Le Haut, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
    Gender Male 
    Immigration 1832  , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Occupation 1852  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Laborer 
    Residence 1852  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Roman Catholic 
    Residence 1861  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Roman Catholic 
    Elected Office 1868  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    councillor Wilmot Township 
    Public Office Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Justice of the Peace 
    Name Joseph J. P. Strub 
    Occupation 1871  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Farmer 
    Residence 1871  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Roman Catholic 
    Occupation 1881  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    farmer 
    Occupation 1891  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Farmer 
    Residence Wilmot Township - Concession North of Bleam's Road Lot 04, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1891  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Roman Catholic 
    Residence 1911  St. Clements, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Roman Catholic 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-59199 
    Died 7 Jan 1916  , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Buried Saint Agatha Roman Catholic Cemetery, St. Agatha, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Person ID I59199  Generations
    Last Modified 26 Feb 2024 

    Father Francois Joseph "Joseph" Strub,   b. 14 Jan 1803, Aschbach, , Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Sep 1880, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Mother Margareta "Margaret" Lugenbuller,   b. 10 Nov 1802, , Alsace Lorraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Jul 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Married 1 Sep 1824  Soppe Le Haut, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    Family ID F15360  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Fredericka Agnes Fischer,   b. 11 Oct 1830, Önsbach, Ortenaukreis, Baden, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Feb 1905, St. Clements, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
    Children 
     1. Margaret Strub,   b. 27 Jun 1853, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1913  (Age 59 years)
     2. Peter Strub,   b. 6 Oct 1854, St. Agatha, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Aug 1931, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     3. Catherina Strub,   b. 1856, St. Agatha, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Heinrich "Henry" Strub,   b. 12 Nov 1856, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Sep 1918, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)
     5. Simon Strub,   b. 1858, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jan 1888, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years)
     6. Joseph F. Strub,   b. 16 May 1860, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. Agnes Strub,   b. 1861, St. Agatha, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Aug 1901, Josephburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 40 years)
     8. Eugene Strub,   b. 2 Nov 1863, St. Agatha, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jul 1904  (Age 40 years)
     9. David J. Strub,   b. 14 Mar 1867, St. Agatha, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Feb 1945, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     10. Carolina Strub,   b. 1868, St. Agatha, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     11. Maria Anastasia "Mary" Strub,   b. 23 Oct 1872, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1947  (Age 74 years)
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2024 
    Family ID F15375  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Joseph J. P. Strub
    Joseph J. P. Strub
    pappiroger originally shared this Ancestry Public Member Trees 2015

  • Notes 
    • AGED WATERLOO COUNTY PIONEER PASSES AWAY

      Funeral of the late Joseph Strub took place in St. Agatha.


      One of Waterloo County's pioneer farmers was laid to rest at St. Agatha on Thursday morning in the person of Joseph Strub, who passed away at his residence. in the village of St. Clements on Monday. The funeral service it held 10 o'clock, at the Roman Catholic Church, interment taking place at the village cemetery. Rev. John Fehrenbach conducted the obsequies in the presence of many relatives and friends from the immediate vicinity and from Berlin and Waterloo, a community in which the aged and venerable tiller of the soil was well-known and highly respected. Six grandsons bore the remains to their last resting-place.

      Joseph Strub was in his 87th year. When as a boy he emigrated to Canada from Germany with his parents, their first home being in Waterloo: Later the father engaged in farming on a site half-a-mile east of St. Agatha. Joseph Strub subsequently engaged in teaching in Wilmot township and following the death of his father became one of the most successful farmers in that community. He was a thriving spirit in the public affairs of Wilmot's early days. In 1868 he commenced a seven-year term as municipal councillor and,.also the municipality's tax-collector for fourteen years. He was also a director of the Wilmot Agricultural Society and in 1875 was appointed a Justice of the Peace. For the past twenty years he had lived retired on the old homestead. His declining years he spent at:his late home in St. Clements.

      Of a family of ten children, six survive. They are Peter, Berlin; David and Joseph, Hamilton; Henry, St. Agatha; Mrs. J. Hartman, Zurich and Mrs. F. Helm, St. Clements; all of whom were in attendance at the last sad rites. The deceased's remaining descendants number fifty-one grandchildren and thirty-seven great grandchildren, His wife predeceased him eleven years.

      The Berlin Daily Telegraph. Friday. February 11,1916 - page 4.

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      Joseph Strub.

      About a half mile east of the village in the home of this venerable and well known citizen now retired to enjoy the fruits of long years of busy toil during which he also has experienced some of the rough side of life. He was born in Alsace, Germany, on August 22nd, 1829. When he was about three years. of age his parents emigrated to Canada, their first abiding place being in Waterloo where they remained a year. That town then only contained D? Snider's store and the mill, from the latter to Hoffman's factory being cedar thicket. The father came to the present site of the home of the subject of this sketch, then a partially unexplored wilderness,it 1833. Here he began a clearing, the first trees felled being used in building a cabin for his family.

      The young people of pleasure today will probably think the truth incredible when the writer recounts some of the hardships endured by this worthy pioneer and his wife in their struggle for a home in the woods. The year previous to this the father had been working by the day for Jacob Bricker, the Burkholders and others in Waterloo. During the first year of their struggle for existence in their wilderness home they would rise at three and four o'clock in the morning and walk to Waterloo, put in an honest day's work and then return home in the evening to toil until near midnight among the burning log heaps of the clearing. Frequently during the sugar-making season the mother would take 30 or 40 pounds of sugar upon her head and walk to Waterloo where she would dispose of it for three cents a pound in trade. Such were the early experiences of these patrons of toil, of which there are a number of witnesses at present living in Waterloo. The father died Dec. 27. 1880, aged 77 years, 8 months and 14 days. The mother followed him on July 24, 1891, aged 88 years, 5 months and 14 days. They had only two children, Joseph the subject of this sketch and the late Mrs. Michael Hergott.

      Joseph had his first experience for himself after leaving the family circle, as clerk in the store of one William Charlton, a Scotchman, of Waterloo He was then about sixteen years of age and remained about a year. After that he followed school teaching, his first school being at St. Agatha, then in Preston and latterly in Wellesley village. He was married in 1850 to Miss Frederica, daughter of the late Philip Fisher, of near Strasburg, this county. They had eleven children, two bring deceased They also experienced many hardships. After marriage Mr. Strub worked three or four years as a carperter, and then returned to the old home stead where he remained until the death of his father and where he now resides a retired life enjoying with bis wife the fruits of their many years of patient toil and hardships. Their son Eugene is working the farm. The residence is a commodious stone structure and was erected in 1850. The farm contains 108 acres and is a choice tract of land on the Erb's road about six miles west of Berlin.

      Mr. Strub was elected a member of the Wilmot Township Council in 1868, which office be held for seven years. For fourteen years he was collector of the township. From both offices he retired with an honorable record. In 1875 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace, an office he still occupies. He was for six years a director of the Wilmot Township Agricultural Society. In his younger days he was a Tory, btt for the past twenty-three or four years he has staunchly espoused the principles of the Reform party. Having been identified with this section both as a farmer and in an official capacity he rests in peace and contentment with the congratulations of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, forty-five grand-children and two great grand- children.

      His amiable wife, who has been his constant helpmate in all his years of toil, was born in Baden, Germany, Oct 11, 1830. Her parents moved to Canada in 1834 and settled between Hamilton and Dundas on a farm upon which was located the well known half way house. In 1844 the family moved to Strasburg where their father died in April 1869, aged 68 years.

      H. N.

      Waterloo County Chronicle 20 Oct 1898, p. 3



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      Joseph is reported to have been born in Obereschbach, France, documentation needed.

  • Sources 
    1. [S140] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1881, Div 1 Page 4 Family 23.
      Joseph J. P. STRUB M M 51 French France Farmer
      Fredricka STRUB F M 50 German Germany
      Henry STRUB M M 24 French Ontario Farmer
      Cathrina STRUB F M 24 German Ontario
      Joseph STRUB M 20 French Ontario Farmer
      Agnes STRUB F 19 French Ontario
      Eugan STRUB M 17 French Ontario
      Davit STRUB M 14 French Ontario
      Carlena STRUB F 12 French Ontario
      Mary STRUB F 9 French Ontario
      Frank TEHAUSCA F 11 French Ontario

    2. [S133] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1901, Wilmot H-5 Page 12.

    3. [S134] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1851, Div 4 Pg 3.

    4. [S504] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1911, (St. Clements) Div. 7 Page 16.

    5. [S190] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1871, Div. 4 Page 30.

    6. [S134] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1851, Div. 4 Page 3.

    7. [S939] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1891, Div. 3 Page 10.

    8. [S844] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1861, Sect. 14 Page 91.

    9. [S3231] Find A Grave, Cemetery, S., America, N., Municipality, W., & Cemetery, S. (1829). Joseph J. P. Strub (1829-1916) - Find A Grave... Retrieved 24 April 2020, from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190033526/joseph-j_p_-strub.

    10. [S3105] Haut Rhin, France, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1793-1892.
      Name:François Joseph Strab
      Gender:homme (Male)
      Record Type:Naissance (Birth)
      Birth Date:22 août 1829 (22 Aug 1829)
      Birth Place:Soppe-le-Haut, France
      Father:Joseph Strab
      Mother:Marguerite Laguebichler

    11. [S140] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1881, Div 1 Page 4 Family 23.

    12. [S3105] Haut Rhin, France, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1793-1892.
      Name:François Joseph Strub
      Gender:homme (Male)
      Marriage Banns Age:21
      Record Type:Publications de Mariage (Marriage)
      Birth Date:abt 1803
      Marriage Banns Date:1 sept. 1824 (1 Sep 1824)
      Marriage Banns Place:Soppe-le-Haut, France
      Father:Barthellimy Strub
      Mother:Madelaine Ineger
      Spouse:Demoiselle Marguerit Lugenbüller
      Gender:femme (Female)
      Marriage Banns Age:21
      Father:Jacques Lugenbüller
      Mother:Marguerit Donze

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsImmigration - 1832 - , Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Laborer - 1852 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Roman Catholic - 1852 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Roman Catholic - 1861 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsElected Office - councillor Wilmot Township - 1868 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsPublic Office - Justice of the Peace - - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1871 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Roman Catholic - 1871 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - farmer - 1881 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1891 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - Wilmot Township - Concession North of Bleam's Road Lot 04, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Roman Catholic - 1891 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Roman Catholic - 1911 - St. Clements, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 7 Jan 1916 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Saint Agatha Roman Catholic Cemetery, St. Agatha, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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