Sherman Rudolph Starr

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Sherman Rudolph Starr

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Worthville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: May 27, 1948 (81)
Brockport, Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Burial: Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of William Lorrance Starr and Nancy Jane Anderson
Husband of Cora Jemina Starr
Father of Bessie Violet Thompson; Twilla Fern Proctor; Jessie Starr; Ella Sarah Chatfield; Irvin David Starr and 5 others
Brother of Samuel David Starr; James Wilson Starr; George Thomas Starr; William C. “Will” Starr; Joseph C. Starr and 2 others
Half brother of Charles Burton Anderson; Meade Anderson and Lydia Elsie Shaffer

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About Sherman Rudolph Starr

GEDCOM Note

Youngest of eight boys. At age eight his older brother Joseph took him to Brockway, PA to live with William Graybill. Worked until age 17 and then bought 160 acres of land on Walburn Run, Brockway. Built a house there and married Cora Jemina Dunlop. He never knew much about his parents and brothers.

Siblings remembered that Sherman jumped out of the window and did stunts. At one time he was a tightrope walker and acrobat in the circus at one time.

Sherman and Cora had cancer and it was thought there was toxic waste nearby.

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Sherman Rudolph Starr's Timeline

1866
August 12, 1866
Worthville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
1895
May 17, 1895
Brockway, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
1897
March 23, 1897
Brockway, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
1899
October 29, 1899
Snyder, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
October 1899
Pennsylvania, United States
1902
January 5, 1902
Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
1903
August 31, 1903
Brockway, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
1904
June 23, 1904
Snyder, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
1907
February 26, 1907
Snyder, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States