Mrs. Henry (Etta Royer) STRICKERT
(1890-1909)
On August 25, 1909 in Beatrice, Nebraska, eighteen-year old Etta Royer married Henry J. Strickert (born 1885), son of Friedrich Strickert and Catherine Neumann. They made their new home in Scott City. Just four months later on December 27, 1909, Etta died from infection that resulted from a miscarriage.
A newspaper clipping concerning her death is included below.
A letter from Leona Numrich noted that Mrs. Tillie Mahler, Henry's sister, mentioned a number of times how this event was instrumental in Henry's decision to enroll at Concordia Seminary in Springfield, Illinois. After graduating in 1915, he married Minna Rook.
Scott City newspaper:
Mrs. Henry J. Strickert [nee Miss Etta E. Royer] was born September 15, 1890 at Beatrice, Neb., moved with her parents to Scott County, Kansas, in June 1900, became a Christian in July 1904, at 13 years of age, uniting first with the Christian Church in Abilene, Kansas, and later with the Church in Scott City. Married to Henry J. Strickert, August, 25, 1909, and died December 27, 1909 at 11:30 p.m., aged 19 years, 3 months, and 12 days.
For several months past she has been in poor health but she and her friends hoped she was growing stronger and would soon regain her health, but when a few weeks ago she became worse and was compelled to take her bed, grave fears were entertained and it was hope against hope. At times she would rally and all were hopeful, again she would fail until on the day of her death, as evening came on she grew much morse and at 11:30 she passed peacefully and calmly away, as a quiet falling sleep. The following morning at 7 o'clock when the church bell tolled, the people of Scott City knew that Etta's spirit had taken its flight.
Etta was a good girl and loved by many friends in Scott City and elsewhere. These will greatly miss her and will deeply sympathize with her young husband to whom she had been married only four short months, and with her father and mother and brother and sisters. We all love to think of her sweet pure life, and especially that she was a faithful devoted Christian, and one of the latest remembrances of her, before her sickness, is of her leading a Christian Endeavor prayer meeting, and the good meeting under her leadership.
With our limited visions, it seems strange that one so young and so fair, and with life so promising, should be called so soon away, but the all wise Father knows, and we submit to his providence, assuredly believing that, while we greatly miss her, she is blessed in being called home by her heavenly Father.
"Sister, thou was mild and lovely,
Gentle as the summer breeze,
Pleasant as the air of evening,
When it floats among the trees.
Peaceful be thy silent slumber--
Peaceful in thy grave so low:
Thou no more will join our number;
Thou no more our songs shall know.
Dearest Sister, thou has left us;
Here thy loss we deeply feel;
But tis God that hath bereft us;
He can all our sorrows heal."
Funeral at the Christian Church, Thursday, December 30, at 2 o'clock p.m. by Rev. D.n. Manly, and O. L. Weir, pastor of Baptist Church.
See also biography of her brother-in-law Robert Crabtree in Early Kansas history: http://www.skyways.kumc.edu/genweb/archives/1919ks/c/crabtrrh.html
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