[or-roots] Re: Strake

[kat1928 at integrity.com]

Quoting Eugene Barnes <evbarnes at earthlink.net>:

> Dear Connie:
> 
> Nora Lenore Reynolds Peterson Strake, was the
> surviving daughter of my great uncle Albert Reynolds, and his wife
> Charity Alice McKenney/
> McKinney.  She was born in Hennpin Co. Mn,
> and came to Alsea with her parents in 1883.
> Her father was a fiddle player and also played
> at the dances in the area.  The family survived,
> as did many others, when they discovered black
> sand on the beach - Gold.  Nora was also one
> of the only women to sail the Alsea Bay alone.
> 
> Thanks for the information.
> 
> Gene Barnes
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Connie Guardino 
>   To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
>   Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 5:20 PM
>   Subject: [or-roots] Re: Strake
> 
> 
>   "Nice (Lincoln County) post office, formerly Lutgens, was established
> April 24, 1917. The office was discontinued November 15, 1919. It was
> named for Captain  Henry "Harry" Nice (1837-1921), a prominent Alsea Bay
> resident during the last half of the 19th Century. Nora L. Strake was
> the first postmaster." 

Gene;

I wonder if your Strake family had property in Waldport.
During the Depression we lived in what was known as,"The Old
Strake House".  It was in old town Waldport.  I was in the first
grade.

Dorothy Webb