Henry Oscar Umholtz

M, #9896, b. 25 March 1863, d. 21 February 1950
Last Edited=25 Jun 2022
     Henry Oscar Umholtz was born on 25 March 1863, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, PA.1,2 He married Mary Ann Strayer on 29 March 1881.3 Henry Oscar Umholtz died on 21 February 1950, Lykens, Dauphin County, PA, at age 86.4,1,2
Newspaper obituary:
HENRY OSCAR UMHOLTZ
Henry Oscar Umholtz, 86, died Tuesday, February 21st, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Raymand Matter, North Second St., Lykens, where he made his home for the past eight years.
Mr. Umholtz was born In Lykens Township, March 25, 1863. He was married March 29th, 1881 to Miss Ann Strayer who preceded him in death twenty years ago. Two sons, Charles, Klingerstown; Harry, Lykens; three daughters, Mrs. Walter Weist, Pottsville, survive. Ten grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from his late home with Rev. R. J. Harrity, pastor of Christ Reformed Church officiating. Burial will be made in the Gratz cemetery.
Lykens Register (Lykens, Pennsylvania), 24 Feb 1950, Fri, Page 6.2
He was buried at Simeon United Lutheran Church Cemetery, Gratz, Dauphin County, PA.1

Child of Henry Oscar Umholtz and Mary Ann Strayer

Citations

  1. [S805] Find A Grave, online www.findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51170239/…. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
  2. [S108] Newspaper Obituary, for Henry Oscar Umholtz, Lykens Register (Lykens, Pennsylvania), 24 Feb 1950, Fri, Page 6.
  3. [S108] Newspaper Obituary, for Henry Oscar Umholyz, Lykens Register (Lykens, Pennsylvania), 24 Feb 1950, Fri, Page 6.
  4. [S78] Mary K. Klinger, Klingers from the Odenwald, Hesse, Germany (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1989), p. 284. Hereinafter cited as Klingers from the Odenwald.
  5. [S1062] Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1967 (Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Department of Health), Certificate Number: 069207-63; https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll. Hereinafter cited as Pennsylvania, Death Certificates.

Mary Ann Strayer1

F, #9897, b. 1862, d. 1929
Last Edited=25 Jun 2022
     Mary Ann Strayer was born in 1862. She married Henry Oscar Umholtz on 29 March 1881.2 Mary Ann Strayer died in 1929.3

Child of Mary Ann Strayer and Henry Oscar Umholtz

Citations

  1. [S336] Gratz Historical Society, A Comprehensive History of the Town of Gratz Pennsylvania (Gratz, PA: Gratz Historical Society, 1997), p. 514. Hereinafter cited as Comprehensive History of Gratz.
  2. [S108] Newspaper Obituary, for Henry Oscar Umholyz, Lykens Register (Lykens, Pennsylvania), 24 Feb 1950, Fri, Page 6.
  3. [S78] Mary K. Klinger, Klingers from the Odenwald, Hesse, Germany (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1989), p. 284. Hereinafter cited as Klingers from the Odenwald.
  4. [S1062] Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1967 (Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Department of Health), Certificate Number: 069207-63; https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll. Hereinafter cited as Pennsylvania, Death Certificates.