Strauther Straud Edward FIELD

                   Notes:  Information from Stan Field my uncle.  Stan had several letters that had belonged to Wilbur Tracy Field Sr. (Stan's Dad and my grandfather).  Strother may also be spelled Strauther.  Stan found that Strother and Mertie Mae had lived in Hapier, Missouri at one time.EXTRACT FROM HATTIE SCHRAM
Strauther or Straud as he was often referred to in northwest Missouri is referred to as Strauther in the Gone Home Book .  He married Myrtle Glass from Holt Co. Missouri.  She had brothers and sisters living in Forest City, MO and Oregon, MO.  Myrtle died in 1919, soon after her fourth son Glen who died at childbirth.  Wilbur was the youngest son at 7 years of age when his mother died.   He was left with the Glass grandparents and remained there for a year and a half.  As Strauther was married to his second wife by the time they left for California in 1925, I would suspect that Strauther married his second wife about 1921, about the time Wilbur returned to the family.
When Staud went to California in 1925 with his brother John Francis Field, he had remarried Myrtle Harness and all of the family, Myrtle, Harry, Howard and Wilbur, went with him.
Strauther admired and thought a great deal of one of his mothers sisters, his Aunt Hattie Babb.  He named his last child Hattie after her memory.  I imagine that he knew her when he spent the year and one half at his grandfather and grandmother home.
Strauther bought his own butcher shop and cut meat for many of the years he was in California.  While working around a construction site he was hit in the head by a falling board and rushed to the doctors where he was diagnosed with a concussion.   He died five days later without ever regaining conscious.