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From: DOROTHY URBAITIS <>
Subject: Query re Gertrude Rex Strimple
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:21:50 -0600


Dear Sharon and Harry,

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Somehow I lost your message and
had to search the archives to find it again.

I'm not familiar with the name "Gertrude Rex Strimple," but as you
likely know by now, all us Strimples are probably connected if you study
long enough. So, you can almost certainly go back to William Strimple
(who changed his name from Johann Wilhelm Strempel or Stremple when he
arrived in Philadelphia in 1752), the first Strimple to arrive in
America. The question is, where did our lines part company after that?

I've only recently become aware of a connection to the Kitchins, through
the Hunterdon County list. My own New Jersey line traces back very
shortly after the arrival in Philadelphia. This first William's son,
John, was a corporal in the 4th New Jersey Regiment during the
Revolutionary War. (John's brothers, Aaron and Christian, also turn up
in New Jersey marriage records and such.) John's son, Samuel, who
married Elizabeth Biddle in Upper Penns Neck, New Jersey, moved with her
to Ohio, then Indiana, then Illinois. Their daughter, Rebecca Strimple,
gave birth to Henry (both deserted by father named Haskins), who was the
father of my own grandfather, Everett. Everett Henry Strimple married
Golda Stitt in Kansas.

I can provide more detail, but I wonder if this is enough information
for you to be able to tell where your branch and mine separated. In my
searches, I remember running across a Gertrude Strimple, but I don't
remember where she died. I'd be interested to know more about your
Strimples and their history.

Dorothy

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