Husband Henry Stroble 1
AKA: Henry Strobel 2
Born: 12 Jul 1842 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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Father: John Strobel (Abt 1811/1812-1856) 2
Mother: Barbara Weinman ( -Abt 1851) 2
Marriage: Sep 1863 3
Wife Harriet Eiseman 3
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Father: Michael Eiseman ( - ) 3
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1 M Francis M. Stroble 3
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2 F Catherine Stroble 3
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Spouse: Jonas P. Miller ( - ) 3
3 M William H. Stroble 3
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General Notes: Husband - Henry Stroble
He was a youth of nine years when his mother died and a lad of fourteen years when his father died. Following his mother's death he went to the home of his maternal uncle, Jacob Wineman. with whom he remained until his seventeenth year, when he apprenticed himself to learn the blacksmith's trade, but after a short time he found that he was not strong enough for that arduous work and returned to his uncle's home, being employed there as a farm hand. He responded, August 18, 1861, to his country's call for aid, enlisting in Company I, Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment of Volunteers for three years, and he participated in every engagement with his command up to and including the battle of Antietam, in which he was shot through the lungs and liver. This occurred September 17, 1862. He was examined by the surgeon on the field and his case being so hopeless he was registered as dead and the record was thus made on the company's books. The following day, being found still alive, he was carried into a stable which was being used as an emergency hospital, but his accouterments being marked with his name, were laid outside by a dead comrade. This comrade was buried and his grave in the National cemetery at Sharpsburg, Maryland, was marked with the name of Henry Stroble, so again he went upon record as having been killed at the battle of Antietam. Fate had something else in store for him, however, and after his wounds were dressed in the emergency hospital he was taken to the Academy Hospital at Chambersburg, where he remained for three months. He then returned home and on March 4 following was honorably discharged from service, but a year was required for his convalescence, so serious were his wounds.
In the summer of 1864 he worked at the carpenter's trade for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and in the succeeding autumn he purchased a small farm in Hempfield township, whereon he resided until 1902, when he retired from agricultural pursuits and removed to Youngwood. In 1884 he had purchased twenty-one acres of land in what is now the central portion of the borough, and in 1894 he purchased the old Tobias Long farm of one hundred acres above New Stanton. He laid out the greater part of the town of Youngwood in 1900 and did much to improve the place, owning now four good residence properties in the borough.
In politics Mr. Stroble was a Republican and in 1894 he was elected tax collector of his township, being the first Republican ever chosen to that office in Hempfield township. His majority was one hundred and seventeen and he thus received as great a vote as was usually given the Democratic candidate. When Youngwood was made a borough in 1902 he was elected burgess.
He belonged to the Lutheran church and was chairman on the building committee at the time of the erection of the Harrold church in 1884, while for several years he served as a deacon in his church.
He belonged to Captain Cribbs Post, Lodge No. 276, G. A. R. in Greensburg, and the Union Veteran Legion Camp, Lodge No. 5, of Greensburg.