Walter Edmonds Straw

   Another name for Walter was Walter Edmund Straw.

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MI marriage records
Groom name Walter E Straw Groom age 26 years Groom birth year 1880 Groom birth place Wisconsin Bride name L Estella Murphy Bride age 20 years Bride birth year 1886 Bride birth place Indiana Marriage date 05 Sep 1906 Marriage place Berrien Springs, Berrien, Michigan Father of groom name S J Straw Mother of groom name Jennings Father of bride name H H Murphy Mother of bride name Unknown Film number 2342673 Digital GS number 4208688 Image number 334 Reference number v 1 p 224 rn 1259

Berrien County, Michigan Dibean Marriage Index
STRAW,WALTER E STRAW,MURPHY,L ESTELLA MURPHY,BERRIEN,,05 SEP 1906,---,CTY REC# 1259,---,

Issued a passport on 20 april 1915 for he and wife and Daughter Sylvia and son Leland
per census 1930 to visit England and do educational work in South Africa.
Issued a passport on 28 March 1918 from Bulawayo (Rhodesia) to visit the missions in Nyasaland, Portuguese East Africa and Belgium Congo.
Issued a passport 29 Dec 1919 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia to visit missions in Belgium Congo, Portuguese East Africa and British South Africa.
Issued a passport on 7 Oct 1921 to return to USA; served in South Africa from May 1915 to Dec 1917 and in Rhodesia from Dec 1917 to Oct 1921 as a Seventh Day Adventist missionary.
Issued a passport 8 July 1924 to do missionary work in Union of south Africa and Rhodesia. to leave from port of NY on 16 aug 1924 aboard Leviathan; residence Keene, Texas

Ellis Island passenger list
First Name: Walter E. Last Name: Straw Ethnicity: U.S.A. Last Place of Residence: Plainfield, Wis. Date of Arrival: Feb 25, 1922 Age at Arrival: 41y 7m Gender: M Marital Status: M Ship of Travel: Aquitania Port of Departure: Southampton Manifest Line Number: 0008


Walter is married again in the 1930 census. He's an employee of the Madison Sanitarium in Davidson, TN. His wife, Mattie, is 43 & from Louisiana. Children: Sylvia [22 born CT], Hermal [looks like it anyhow! 21, born ILL], Leland [19], Ranold [possibly Ronald; 13] and Minnie [10]. The last three children were all born in South Africa. Looks like he traveled a bit after Laura L died. This explains why he isn't buried with Laura.

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Name: Water F. STRAW
Sex: M
Birth: 12 JUL 1880 in Oasis, Wesgars Co., Wisconsin
Death: 7 APR 1962 in Ellijay, Georgia and buried in Beardon, Tennessee
Note: Walter, or Doctor, Professor or Elder Straw, as he was later called spent his life as a dedicated minister and educator in the Seventh-Day Adventist denominational work. Together he and Estella went as missionaries to Rhodesia, Africa and spent some nine years there. On returning, he filled various positions of responsibility in our secondary school and colleges as Principal, President, or Head of the Religion Department. He was still teaching in his chosen field of theology at Madison College, Tennessee when at eight-three years of age, he died following surgery in April of 1962, the Hospital in Ellijay, Georgia. He was buried at Beardon, Tennessee; a little town near Concord.

Walter married Laura L. Fredericks on 28 Nov 1900 in Waushara Co. Wisconsin. (Laura L. Fredericks was born on 18 Dec 1882, died on 28 Aug 1903 and was buried in North Deerfield Cemetery in Deerfield, Waushara county, Wisconsin.)

Walter next married Estella Laura Murphy, daughter of Henry Herbert Murphy and Rosaria Brevelle Cole, on 5 Sep 1906 in Berrien Springs, Berrien Co, Michigan. (Estella Laura Murphy was born on 14 Oct 1886 in Nicksville, Ohio, died in Sep 1979 in Knoxville, Tennessee and was buried in Highland Memorial Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee.)