Oscar Adam Starr1
M, #23713, b. 4 December 1868, d. 25 December 1956
Last Edited=2 Sep 2021
Oscar Adam Starr was born on 4 December 1868, Ashland, Schuylkill County, PA.1 He 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
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
Children of Oscar Adam Starr and Elizabeth Sophronia Knorr
- Gurney Arthur Starr+ b. 1 Jun 1891, d. 6 May 1962
- Edna Mae Starr6
- Eugene Adam Starr
Citations
- [S253] Descendants of Michael Wolfgang, online http://www.wolfgangs.org/wolf03/index.htm. Hereinafter cited as Descendants of Michael Wolfgang.
- [S515] Lawrence Knorr, The Descendants of Hans Peter Knorr (New Kingston, PA: Sunbury Press, Inc., July, 2007). Hereinafter cited as Descendants of Hans Peter Knorr.
- [S1062] Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1967 (Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Department of Health), Certificate Number: 112965; Filed: December 28, 1956; https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll. Hereinafter cited as Pennsylvania, Death Certificates.
- [S108] Newspaper Obituary, for Oscar A. Starr, Shamokin News-Dispatch (Shamokin, Pennsylvania), 26 Dec 1956, Wed, Page 5.
- [S60] Joseph A. Meiser Jr. and Sarah Roadarmel Meiser, Genealogists Guide to Burials in Schuylkill County (Grantham, PA: Ddraig Gooch Publications, Robert L.K. Jones, 3rd edition 1998), p. 77. Hereinafter cited as Schuylkill County Burials.
- [S1140] Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, online www.ancestry.com,.
Elizabeth Sophronia Knorr1,2
F, #23714, b. 29 July 1872, d. 1 March 1941
Last Edited=27 Jun 2020
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 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
Children of Elizabeth Sophronia Knorr and Oscar Adam Starr
- Gurney Arthur Starr+4 b. 1 Jun 1891, d. 6 May 1962
- Edna Mae Starr5
- Eugene Adam Starr4
Citations
- [S253] Descendants of Michael Wolfgang, online http://www.wolfgangs.org/wolf03/index.htm. Hereinafter cited as Descendants of Michael Wolfgang.
- [S515] Lawrence Knorr, The Descendants of Hans Peter Knorr (New Kingston, PA: Sunbury Press, Inc., July, 2007), p. 60. Hereinafter cited as Descendants of Hans Peter Knorr.
- [S515] Lawrence Knorr, Descendants of Hans Peter Knorr.
- [S515] Lawrence Knorr, Descendants of Hans Peter Knorr, p. 61.
- [S1140] Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, online www.ancestry.com,.