Clifton Floyd Straw

   Another name for Clifton was Clifton F. Strow.

  General Notes:

census 1920 Ford, Scotts Bluff, NE

Research of Margaret Straw and sent to me via postal mail April 2005 - he goes by the surname of STROW

www.familysearch.com -Married 1932 at age 16 [marriage record states he was 21] and divorced and married again 1938

Straw, Richard C
48
BirthYear(1920, '48'); 1871
Iowa
Ford, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
Born in Maine, married to Anna from WVA [38]; children: Gertrude [14], Tom [looks like it anyhow] [9], Gene, [ 7], Clifford [4]. Children all born in NE

SSDI
Name: Clifton F. Strow Last Residence: 82414 Cody, Park, Wyoming Born: 23 Nov 1915 Died: 10 May 2008 State (Year) SSN issued: Wyoming (Before 1951)

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Clifton Floyd Strow, 92, died May 10, 2008, at his home in Cody.
He was born Nov. 23, 1915, in Mitchell, Neb. He came to Wyoming in 1918 with his parents in the back of a chuckwagon. His father worked for Johnson Cattle Co. of Texas and they were bringing cattle to the reservation.
Cliff attended school through the fifth grade in a one-room schoolhouse. At age 11 he ran away and met Joe La Crosse, an old French Canadian horse-trader. They gathered wild horses prior to the Depression in the Red Desert.
The horses were sold to CBC, a canning company that in turn sold the meat to the French government. After working for CBC until he was 18 he began catching horses, breaking them and selling them to ranchers around the Beaver Rim in Sweetwater River country.
At age 19 he moved to the Powell area with 25 head of horses. He started rodeoing in the Rocky Mountains, where he met his future wife Genevieve Newton. He broke horses for E.E. Newton, his future father-in-law, and also A.C. Newton, a future uncle.
He met Gen's brothers Don and Judd while working at Mammoth Hot Springs putting in water lines. On April 23, 1938, Cliff and Gen were married in Red Lodge. He then worked for five years on the tunnels west of Cody.
During World War II he served in the Navy working in construction with the Seabees. He was at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
He later worked as a carpenter in the Big Horn Basin and then worked for Husky Oil Co. for 27 years.
After he retired, he and Gen did some traveling but mostly he loved to stay at home and take care of the yard. He always had horses and enjoyed trading, breaking and selling them.
Cliff touched many people in his 92 years and will be missed.
He is survived by his wife of 70 years, sons Richard, Fred and Larry Strow, five grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services will be at Riverside Cemetery.

Clifton married Genevieve Newton, daughter of Earl Ernest Newton and Eliza C. Bushnell, on 23 Apr 1938 in Cody, Park County, Wyoming. (Genevieve Newton was born on 18 Mar 1920 in Cody, Park County, Wyoming, died on 11 Feb 2016 in Cody, Park County, Wyoming and was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Cody, Park County, Wyoming.)

• marriage place. Red Lodge, Carbon County, Montana

Clifton next married Lucille Alice Fulton, daughter of Roy Fulton and Alice Shoemaker, on 2 Dec 1932 in Red Lodge, Carbon County, Montana. (Lucille Alice Fulton was born in 1913 in Lincoln, Nebraska.)

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