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     Oscar Adam Starr was born on 4 December 1868, Ashland, Schuylkill County, PA.¹ He was the son of Peter Geist Starr and Mary Magdalene Herb.¹ Oscar Adam Starr married Elizabeth Sophronia Knorr on 4 January 1891.² Oscar Adam Starr died on 25 December 1956, Hegins Township, Schuylkill County, PA, at age 88.^3,1
Newspaper obituary:
Elderly Resident Of Area Expires
Oscar A. Starr, 88, Klingerstown, died yesterday morning in the home of a son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Schlegel, Valley View, where he was recuperating from a cerebral hemorrhage with which he was stricken 18 days ago.
A son of the late Peter and Mary (Herb) Starr, the late area resident was born in Ashland, December 4, 1868. A retired farmer, he was a member of Eureka Lodge 260, I. O. O. F., Leck Kill, and an active member of Salem Reformed Church and Sunday School, Klingerstown R. D.
Mr. Starr was married to the former Miss Fronie Knorr, who died in 1941.
Surviving are six sons, Gurney, Klingerstown; Guy, Sunbury; Charles, Womelsdorf; Whalen, Dalmatia; Lee, Elizabethville, and Eugene, Hegins R. D. 1; five daughters, Mrs. Elura Erdman, Mrs. Alpha Klinger and Mrs. Samuel Schlegel, Valley View; Mrs. Whalen Erdman, Lykens, and Mrs. Elsie Fetterolf, Washington, D: C; one brother, Samuel, Valley View; two sisters, Mrs. Sadie Bair, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Francis O. Schadel, Klingerstown R. D; 38 grandchildren, 65 great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:00 in Rothermel Funeral Home, Klingerstown R. D. Further services will be held at 2:00 in Salem Reformed Church. Rev. John Yarborough, pastor of Salem Reformed Church; will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from tomorrow evening until time of services.
Shamokin News-Dispatch (Shamokin, Pennsylvania), 26 Dec 1956, Wed, Page 5.⁴
He was buried on 28 December 1956, at Salem (Herb's) Church Cemetery, Rough and Ready, Schuylkill County, PA.^3,5

     Elizabeth Sophronia Knorr is also referred to as Fronie in some sources. She was born on 29 July 1872, Rough and Ready, Schuylkill County, PA.¹ She married Oscar Adam Starr, son of Peter Geist Starr and Mary Magdalene Herb, on 4 January 1891.³ Elizabeth Sophronia Knorr died on 3 January 1941, at age 68.² Some sources record that Elizabeth Sophronia Knorr died on 1 March 1941.¹

     Peter Geist Starr was born on 23 April 1843, Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, PA.^1,3 He married Mary Magdalene Herb on 1 September 1867, Schuylkill County, PA.⁴ Peter Geist Starr died on 7 June 1925, Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, PA, at age 82.^3,1
Newspaper obituary:
PETER G. STARR
Peter G. Starr, 82 years, 1 month and 15 days old, a resident of Rough and Ready, died Sunday, June 7th, at 3 P. M. Death was caused by complication of diseases and old age. Mr. Starr was ill for thirteen weeks. He lived all his life in Rough and Ready, and his parents were Peter Starr and Maria (nee Glest). He was born on April 23, 1843, In Northumberland ounCty, and was married to Mary M. Herb, Sept. 1, 1867, by Rev. John C. Schmidt, at Mahanoy. He is survived by the following: Oscar A., of Rough and Ready; John A. and Irvin E., of Shamokin; Samuel of Valley View; Gabriel E., of Newton, Kansas; Lizzie Hepler of Hepler; Sadie Bair of Greensburg, and Mrs. Mary Stiely at home. Mr. Starr was a member of Salem's Reformed Church. Rough and Ready, and also a member of the Odd Follows. Eureka Lodge No. 260, and charge of the funeral services. The funeral services, were held on Thursday morning, June 11, at 10 o'clock. Revs. Beam and Fetterolf officiating. Burial was made in the Rough and Ready cemetery. Mr. Starr was a member of the Heavy Artillery, Nos. 188 and 122 Pennsylvania.
The Standard (Lykens, PA), June 12, 1925, Page 1.⁴
He was buried at Salem (Herb's) Church Cemetery, Rough and Ready, Schuylkill County, PA.⁵

     Mary Magdalene Herb was born on 5 September 1845.^3,1 She married Peter Geist Starr on 1 September 1867, Schuylkill County, PA.⁴ Mary Magdalene Herb died on 7 December 1923, Hepler, Schuylkill County, PA, at age 78.^3,1 She was buried on 13 December 1923, at Salem (Herb's) Church Cemetery, Rough and Ready, Schuylkill County, PA.^3,2,1