The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-04-30
INTERESTING DETAILS OF THE
LIFE or THE LATE GEORGE
w. STROBE.
ALWAYS TRUSTWORTHY
, Business and Friendship-Had
Friends In Cairo Whom He Had
Been Closely Associated
With Cor over Half a
Century.

Mr.. G. b. s. Pennehaker has giVei
to This, Bulletin the following interst
ling account OF the life of the lat,
George w. Strobe, many details o
which were impossible to obtain a
| the time CT Mr.. Strode's death OWNS
to the absence from the city of his
RELATIVES.
In early life Mr. Strobe was EN-
ployed in transportation interests a
| Galena, Illinois, where he first, became
acquainted with the late Captain w
p, Halliday and Major Il. wv Halliday
who were then captain and clsrk, re-
spectively on one of the upper Miss
issippi steam boats running to Ga.
lena. The friendship then formed
continued unbroken during life, and in
the case of tive of the parties cover
ed the long period of fifty-two years.
Just prior TO the beginning of the
Civil War Major Halliday and Mr.
Strobe located lat Memphis, Tenn.
where they were engaged in the
wharfboat and forwarding business
Later, both Of them entered the ser
vice of the Confederacy, Major Halli-
day as one CT General Forests Off
GERS and Mr.. Strobe as telegraph oper-
ator, At the close of the war Mr.
Strobe came to Columbus, Kentucky,
Company wharfboat owners and coal
dealers until 1877, whIsn the business
was removed to Cairo. Here he was
with Halliday Brothers until 1887.
In that year he went to Denver,
Colorado. where he remained only
few months, returning To Cairo at the
urgent request of Mr.. H. l.. Halliday
the then managing head of the firm Of
Halliday Brothers. He remained here
for a number of years. Later he was,
for several years cashier of the Bank
at Columbus Kentucky, until about
1903. Since that time he had not been
actively engaged in business; but
spent his time in travelling and at his
home in Trenton, Tenn, with coca
sional visits to Columbus, Cairo, Mem |
)his and other points.
Mr.. Strodei was first married in
SG5 to Miss Mary Stuart of Gaines.
lille, Alabama, whose memory re
mains as a benediction to all with
whose lives she came in contact
Iamie an only daughter, lived only |
en- years, dying here at the family
omsl on Seventh street in 1880. AT
er more than thirty years Of happy
larr,ed life, the first Mrs. Stroce
led in Columbus in MAY, 1896. In
november, 1897, Mr. Strobe was
larried to Mrs Josephine Entler Of
olumbus. who lived only two
lonths, dying In January, 1898.
His third wife was Miss LYDIA Nc
earmon, OF Trenton, Tenn, who sur
ives him. Il has been remarked that
, have lived happily with three
ives, preserving to the last the kind
est relations with the relatives and
lends Of all Is no small tribute 70
r. Strodos character.
Mr. Sirode was the last of fam
Y of five brothers and two sisters
he only blood relatives surviving are d
rec nilces, Mrs c. B. S. Pennebak
I, of Cairo, Mrs. w. F. Brown, Of
Guatemala. Central Amer
a, and Mrs. J. L. Burgie of Mem
lis, Tenn.
Mr.. Strobe possessed in a large
easure those qualities which made
lends wherever he was known. He
rs one of the few men who could q
TX to a careless and Indifferent man
woman Of the world about the re
ion which meant so much to the d
eaker. without any appearance Of
Mt, and in way, which, while qui :
d unobtrusive, frequently left last :
2 Impressions He was eminently /"
ccessful in helping people TO help
and used his good offices e
s cure places for those whom he
d to be deserving. Not a few now 4
ing would readily say thai to him
ny were indebted for their start in /
tier life both materially and spirit.
lily. Truly his was life well lived.
d his passing whila it leaves a void
the hearts of his friends who re-
lin. was in full assurance of vel
me in a better country"