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Henry A. Traut

1830 – 2 May 1907

Birth	1830
Death	2 May 1907
Cemetery	Hanford Cemetery Hanford , Kings County , California , USA
Added by	Jim Gregory on 12 Aug 2022
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106621026

Bio

MRS. CATHERINE LOUISA TRAUT In Livingston county, state of New York, June 10, 1836, the lady mentioned above, a citizen of Hanford, Kings county, Cal., was born and in the state of Pennsylvania she grew to womanhood. May 23, 1860, she married Henry A. Traut, a native of Girard, Erie county, Pa., born August 14, 1830. In 1890 they settled at Texarkana, Ark., whence in 1898 they came to Kings county, Cal. They lived at Grangeville when they came to the county and later bought five acres of land in the Emma Lee Colony and remained for about seven years, engaged in raising fruit and farming. In 1903 they sold out their California interests and returned to their old home in Pennsylvania for a visit, but came back to California before the end of that year, and in 1904 bought twenty acres half a mile north of the north limits of Hanford, a portion of which was in orchard, the balance pasture land. In 1906 they sold ten acres of this tract, retaining ten acres, which is now the home of Mrs. Traut. It was at Girard, Pa., already mentioned as his birthplace, that Henry A. Traut was raised. When he was twenty-one years old he came to California, where he mined for eight years. Then, returning to Pennsylvania, he married and engaged in farming and merchandising. Eventually he removed to rkansas, where he continued to sell goods until his failing health made it necessary for him to come back to California. Here he gave his attention to fruit growing until his death, which occurred May 7, 1907. Socially he affiliated with the Masons, and he and his wife were identified with the order of the Eastern Star from the time of coming to Kings county. They early identified themselves with the Methodist Episcopal church. Their one child, Minnie, died aged five years, in 1866. Mrs. Traut was a daughter of Samuel L. and Hannah (Crooks) Buckbee. Her father died soon after the beginning of the Civil war. There were many bushwhackers in the neighborhood at the time of his funeral and his family found it advisable to conceal from them the fact of his death. Those were strenuous times in Missouri, when the Buckbee family was then living, and it was understood by Mrs. Traut and her friends that Confederate marauders had decorated their bridle reins with scalps of Federal sympathizers. Thomas J. Buckbee enlisted at Chillicothe, Mo., in 1861, in the Federal cavalry, with which he served during the war. His brother David enlisted in 1861 also and served three years in the same Missouri regiment, then, instead of re-enlisting, came home to care for his aged mother. Thomas was the eldest and David was the second brother of Mrs. Traut. History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913 pp. 659-660 Transcribed by Kathy Sedler http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/biographies/t/traut-catherine.txt

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HENRY A. TRAUT DIED MAY 2, 1907 AGED 77 YEARS CATHARINE L. HIS WIFE DIED JUNE 10, 1918 AGED 82 YEARS TRAUT

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Catharine L. Buckbee Traut 1836–1918 FaG

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Children

Minnie Cross Traut 1861–1866 FaG

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