Christian Strickert Family
see also "Christian Strickert Obituary"
1903 Photo of Christian, Pauline, and family in front of house
(provided by Doris Anderson)
Close up of 1903 photo
“Christian and Pauline’s farm house in 1903. This picture was taken when Amelia was married.
The family here, front row:
Christian( 1842-1915), Augusta (1889-1918), age about 14, and Pauline (1852-1925).
Back row: Henry John (1883-1955), William (1873-1921), Melvina (1886-1949), Amelia (1880-1971), Frederick (1874-1955), Emma (1884-1960), Matilda (1875-1948), and August (1877-1925). Mary (1884-1908) is missing from this picture. She was married in 1901 to Tom Hesson. They had 1 son John. Mary dies in 1908.”
“This picture must have been taken around Christmas, 1916, when Amelia took her
3 youngest children East (to Ontario) to visit her mother, sisters and brothers.
Her father had died the year before on November 22, 1915 at the age of 73.
Front row: Henry, Emma, Melvina, Pauline
Back row: Amelia, Fred, Matilda, August and William.”
An 1894 photo of Margaretha Schade Strickert (age 19) can be found at http://www.hammerfamily.biz/SchadeGenealogy.htm
Margaretha is sitting in the front row on the right. Her parents, Johann Schade and Anna Elizabeth Ruhl, immigrated from Germany to Perth County, Ontario in 1856, the same year as Johann and Christina Strickert. In 1897 (three years after photo), John William Strickert (born 1873, the oldest son of Christian Strickert, the youngest son of Johann and Christina) married Margaretha. Together they had eight children. Margaretha died in 1968 in Perth County, Ontario.
The Christian Strickert family tree can be found at http://strickertfamily.com/Christian_Family_Tree.html
http://www.hammerfamily.biz/SchadeGenealogy.htm
Photo taken at Melvina Strickert Schwindt farm. Melvina Strickert Schwindt (b. 1886), Emma Strickert Price Jordan(b. 1884), Henry George Christian Strickert (b. 1883), Amelia Strickert Pehlke (b. 1880), Frederick Charles Strickert (b. 1874), Matilda Wilhelmina Strickert Pehlke (b. 1975).
Photos provided by Chris Pehlke & Ron Holman)
Daughters and Granddaughters of Christian Strickert
Anna and John Pehlke in Kansas. Matilda Strickert and Amelia Strickert married brothers William and John Pehlke, whose sister Anna Pehlke married yet another Strickert, Herman Strickert, oldest son of Frederick Strickert.
