Ida Louella Straw

   Cause of her death was chronic myocarditis; hypertension.

  General Notes:

1880 Census Place North Springfield, Greene, Missouri
Luella WENTWORTH
Birth Year <1851
Birthplace CAN
Age 29
Occupation Keep House Marital Status M <Married> Race W <White>
Head of Household J. R. WENTWORTH Relation Wife
Father's Birthplace CAN
Mother's Birthplace CAN


1900 DeSota, Jefferson, MO
John R. Wentworth b. Aug 1847 NH; married 30 yrs
Luella born June 1850 Canada Eng; married 30 yrs; father born NH; mother b. England
Albert Wentworth b. July 1885 MO [son]
Madge Straw b. June 1879 MO [neice]
Katie Maupin b. Jun e 1876 KY [servant]; single

1910 Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado
John R. Wentworth age 62; born NH; m. 39yrs; works as manager of Orchard Heaters
Ida L. Wentworth age 58; m. 39yrs; ch: 2/2; born NH; father born NH; mother born England

1920 Grand Junction, Mesa, CO
John R. Wentworth age 72 born 1848 NH; Sec of School Board
Luella Wentwroth born 1851 Canada; emig 1851; father b. NH; mother b. England

IGI files

(Mongollon Mountain Man; Nat Straw - Grissly Hunter and Trapper by Carolyn O'Bagy Davis; Sanpete Publications; Published 2003; Tucson, AZ)
"Jacob and Lucy's second daughter Ida Louella, married John Wentworth in 1870. John was born in 1847 in Dover, NH. He journeyed to MO in 1868 and took a job with the civil engineer corps that was building the railroad. Upon completion of the railroad to Marshfield, he was appointed freight and ticket agent. John and Ida Louella's only child was a daughter who was born in 1873. Interestingly, Ida Louella also named her daughter Maude, as her oldest sister had done.
In late years there is no record of the Wentworths in Springfield. John worked as a superintendent for the rail road and in 1881 he was promoted to superintendent of the Kansas division of the St. Louis and Santa Fe railway. It is possible his job responsibilities took him away from the area. But no records have been located that reveal where Ida Louella spent her adult years." [Addenda of Jane O'Connor Foster: Ida Luella was living in DeSota, MO in 1900 and in 1910 and 1920 she was living in Colorado; Lived in Houston from 1924-28 where she died; informant on death record is Mrs J. L. Gaston of Houston, TX, Luella's daughter Maude (Mrs John Louis Gaston); Ida Luella also had a son Albert born 1885 in MO]

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Ida married John Roberts Wentworth, son of James Wentworth and Mary Ann Tuttle, on 16 Oct 1870 in Webster County, MO. (John Roberts Wentworth was born on 10 Aug 1847 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire, died on 25 Dec 1924 in Mesa Clounty, Colorado and was buried in Municipal Cemetery in Orchard Mesa, Colorado.)