Alvinzi Straight

STRAIGHT, BRYANT

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/24/2004 at 22:27:12

Alvinzi Straight was born in Delaware county, New York, August 10, 1821. When quite young his parents moved to Chenango county, then to Broome county, where they lived until he was fourteen years old, when they moved to Allegany county. On October 19, 1842, he married Miss Rosila Bryant, a native of Chemung county, New York.
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In 1843 he bought a farm in Allegany county, in the town now known as Alma, where they lived until 1865, when he sold and came to Butler county, Iowa, and bought a farm on section 2, Monroe township, his present home. In the winter of 1882-3 he built a large frame house.
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They have six children – Wallace R., Willard F., Waldo M., Betsy K., Wesley A., and Warren S. Willard F. enlisted, October 5, 1862, in Company H, One Hundred and Sixtieth New York Regiment, and was killed on Banks’ Red River expedition, in April, 1863, when but eighteen years of age. Warren died October 5, 1859, aged four years, and Waldo died in April, 1862, aged thirteen years.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 643