Reuben Clarence Straw

   Cause of his death was (accidental) gunshot wound to head.

  General Notes:

Research of Margaret Straw of Nebraska City, NE and postal mailed to me in March 2005

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Date: Friday, April 27, 1906 Paper: Omaha World Herald (Omaha, NE) Page: 18
"Mr and Mrs Reuben Straw have a new son at their home...."
[and also]
Date: Friday, January 3, 1930 Paper: Omaha World Herald (Omaha, NE) Page: 7
OIL STATION ROBBERS GET PRISON FOR SMALL LOOT
"Sentences of 5 years each in the Penitentiary were pronounced Thursday afternoon by District Judge Leslie upon Stanley A_____21 and Reuben Clarence Straw age 27 who confessed holding up _____an oil station attendant...December 11...they implicated a third man...and each got $5.00 of the $15.00 loot so their sentences were at the rate of a year for a dollar.....Straw lived at a hotel and says he is married but that a divorce suit is pending...."

1910 Omaha Ward 2, Douglas County, Nebraska Ruben C. STRAW 1873 Jessie E. 1878 Edisia (Alicia?) 1898 Nebraska Henry L 1901 Nebraska Mary S. 1903 Nebraska Reuben C. jr 1907 Nebraska Edna M. 1909 Nebraska

1930 Yankee Hill, Lancaster County, NE census - STRAW
Reuben C Straw
AgeWith12ths('27',false); 27
BirthYear(1930, '27'); 1902
Nebraska
Inmate
White
Yankee Hill, Lancaster, NE
Born in NE; pants maker; at the State Pen
Married at age 26

1940 Denver, Adams County, Nebraska [Hastings State Hospital in Ingleside]
Rubin STRAN (sic) age 34; divorced; born NE inmate [lived in Omaha in 1935]

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Date: Thursday, August 11, 1955 Paper: Omaha World Herald (Omaha, NE) Page: 8
HOSPITAL PATIENT SHOT IN HASTINGS WOODS
"Foul play was doubted Wednesday by officials investigating the death of a 47 year old Hastings State Mental Hospital patient from Omaha. Rubin (Reuben) C. Straw son of Mrs Jessie Swantner...was found lying in a woods near the hospital Tuesday by another patient. He died about 4 pm the same day. A Wednesday autopsy revealed he had been killed by a .22 bullet...entered the side of his head and lodged in his brain....no sign of a struggle or a robbery at the scene. Mr Straw who had been committed in 1939...was a model patient...had freedom of the grounds. the body is being returned to Omaha where services are pending at Brewer-Kosrisko Mortuary. Survivors are his mother, sisters: Mrs W. W. Gill and Mrs Violet Fullerton both of Omaha, Mrs Mary D. Hankla and Mrs L. J. Pryor, both of Wilmington, CA and a brother Henry L. of Omaha."
Date: Tuesday, August 16, 1955 Paper: Omaha World Herald (Omaha, NE) Page: 18
"Adams County Attorney ____said no chages will be filed in the shooting of Reuben Straw...ballistics report showed Mr. Straw was "apparently" killed by a rifle fired by a 15 yr old. [the youth and one other boy had been in the woods and had been firing rifles at birds and targets and were unaware they had shot Mr Straw]

Place of burial per his obit

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Reuben married Dorla Belle Hatfield, daughter of Charles Hatfield and Elizabeth Petersen, on 25 Jan 1929 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Dorla Belle Hatfield was born circa 1907 in Kansas City , Jackson County, Missouri.)

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