William Stryker

TROY. —The first settler in this township was William Striker, who, in 1854, located in Bach Grove. During the next year several others settled. Provisions were hauled seventy miles, and this continued until about 1859. Bach Grove covered three thousand acres of timber, and black walnut, elm, and oak grew to large size. A post office is established at Bach Grove. Population, 406; voters, 85. EAGLE GROVE. —This is one of the western tier of townships, and the Boone River, with its valuable groves of timber, passes through the western edge. The first settler here was William Davis, who only remained about a year. Afterwards W. B. Taine and others built a log cabin on the Boone, and in this the meeting to organize the county was first held. This party brought with them four large wagon-loads of provisions from Davenport, a distance of nearly three hundred miles. The nearest post office was then thirty miles. Eagle Grove post office was once an Indian village of five hundred wigwams. Population, 279; with 51 voters. http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/wright/history/wright.txt

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Birth: Sep. 11, 1814 Geneseo Livingston County New York, USA Death: Feb. 8, 1897 Wright County Iowa, USA

1822 to Trumble Co., OH. 1835 to Lagrange Co., IN. 1840 to Bureau Co., IL. 1854 to Wright Co., IA. A pioneer of Troy township. For some years Mr. Stryker has been in feeble health. He was the first white settler in Troy township and among the very first to locate in the Boone valley. At the age of eight years he removed with his parents to Trumbull county, Ohio, where he attained his manhood. His father was a shoemaker by trade but the young man was trained as a farmer and received as good an education as the schools could give. When twenty-one years of age he moved to Indiana and remained there five years going to Bureau county, Illinois, where he resided until 1854. In that year with his family he came to Wright county with an ox and horse team, and taking six weeks for the journey. Here his first house was a rude log cabin 14x10 to which the next year, he built an addition of like kind and size. Subsequently logs gave way to frame and now the homestead is a good brick house, with all the appurtenances of a first-class farm. In l835 he was wed to Miss Roxcena Wilcox in La Grange county, Indiana. Mr. Stryker, a republican and has been a county supervisor and justice of the peace. He has been a member of the Methodist church for nearly sixty years..

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Parents:

 John Barabus Stryker (1794 - 1840)

 Frances Eastlick Stryker (1794 - 1878)

Spouse:

 Roxcena Wilcox Stryker (1821 - 1898)*

Children:

 John Stryker (1840 - 1917)*

 Lovina Lydia Stryker Teters (1847 - 1892)*

 Jeremiah Dick Stryker (1849 - 1918)*

 Emma W Stryker Spangler (1854 - 1933)*

 Effie Stryker Johnson (1862 - 1909)*

 Etta Stryker Orr (1864 - 1944)*

 Lillian May Stryker Orr (1869 - 1942)*

Siblings:

 William Stryker (1814 - 1897)

 Henry Spencer Striker (1820 - 1888)**

 Almedia Stryker Wilcox (1830 - 1898)*

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Burial: Troy Cemetery Woolstock Wright County Iowa, USA