Thomas E. Straw

   Cause of his death was erysipelas.

  General Notes:

1850 Flowerfield, St. Joseph County, Michigan Nathan Straw 1800 Vermont Mary 1802 NY Horatio N. 1831 NY Thomas 1837 MI George F. 1840 MI Hannah 1843 MI

1856 - married 22 July 1856 at home of John B. Armstrong [father]...witnesses: Nathan Straw and Alfred Osmer

1860 Flowerfield, St. Joseph, Michigan - he is single [age 25] and working on the farm of the Jos. Tubbs Family

US Civil War records and profiles-
Name: Thomas Straw Residence: Flowerfield, Michigan Age at Enlistment: 24 Enlistment Date: 25 Jul 1861 Rank at enlistment: Private Enlistment Place: Flowerfield, MI State Served: Michigan Survived the War?: No Service Record: Enlisted in Company G, Michigan 11th Infantry Regiment on 04 Sep 1861.
Mustered out on 20 Feb 1862 at Bardstown, KY.
Birth Date: abt 1837
Pension papers - per wife: husband volunteered at White Pigeon 24 Aug 1861; mustered in by Capt Harvey Tilden at White Pigeon and then marched to Bardtown, KY where he died whle in service.

The 1877 History of St. Joseph Co. Michigan lists:
Flowerfield Township
Straw, Thomas p. 198 - Civil War list: Co. G - died 11 Feb. 1862.

CW Pension list - added name is Wm Stanley Straw - [his son]

www.findagrave.com - died age 24y 6m 11 d on 11 Feb 1862 [calculated DOB = 31 July 1837]
Straw Burials in Flowerfield Baptist church Cemetery:
Section 0 Row 10 Stone 18 Mary Vidla Straw 1858-1859 d/o L. F and T. U [could she be a d/o Thomas E. and Ann Marie as they married in 1856]
Stone 19 William Stanley Straw 1862-1863 s/o Thomas
Stone 20 Thomas E. Straw 1837-1862

  Medical Notes:

Acute streptococcal cellulitis involving the skin with slightly raised red areas [he had been earlier diagnosed with measles]

Thomas married Ann Marie Armstrong, daughter of John B. Armstrong and Mary, on 22 Jul 1856 in Flowerfield, St. Joseph County, Michigan. (Ann Marie Armstrong was born in 1829 in New York.)

  Marriage Notes:

pension papers