Finding Aid for the Stella Strickler Tharp Collection

Title: Finding Aid for the Stella Strickler Tharp Collection
Description: This collection contains the genealogical research done by Stella Strickler Tharp. Stella focused on her
maternal and paternal lines as well as her husband’s maternal and paternal lines. These surnames
include Botts, Newson, Strickler, and Tharp. Each surname has family history and genealogy research in
addition to photographs, ephemera, and vital record information. There is also biographical information
complied by the donor as well as a photograph album for the Strickler family.
Subject: Genealogy
Family history
Tharp family
Creator: Nicole Schlagel, Archivist, Midwest Genealogy Center
Publisher: Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri
Date: 2017
Rights: Rights Information
Format: Portable Document File Format; 350 KB; 2 pages.
Language: English
Type: Text
Identifier: stella strickler tharp collection_v01.pdf
extracted text: Stella Strickler Tharp collection

Collection Summary
Title
Stella Strickler Tharp collection
Date
1800s-1900s
Extent
1 archival box

Name and Location of Repository
Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence (Mo.)
Reference code: MGC 2015-SSTC
Processed by: Nicole Schlagel, 2016; finding aid created by Nicole Schlagel, 2016

Name of Creator
Tharp, Louise Estella “Stella” Strickler

Biographical History
Louise Estella “Stella” Strickler was born November 17, 1882 in Linn County, Missouri to Wilson and
Mary Newsom Strickler. She married Lloyd Seldon Tharp in Meadville, Missouri on April 29, 1903.
Together they had five children; one daughter and four sons. Stella was very involved with genealogy
and enjoyed gathering the information to document her and her husband’s families. On June 20, 1958,
Stella, her husband Lloyd, and her son Harold were killed in a car accident in Phillipsburg, Kansas. All
three were buried in Meadville, Missouri at the Meadville Cemetery.

Scope and Content
This collection contains the genealogical research done by Stella Strickler Tharp. Stella focused on her
maternal and paternal lines as well as her husband’s maternal and paternal lines. These surnames
include Botts, Newson, Strickler, and Tharp. Each surname has family history and genealogy research in
addition to photographs, ephemera, and vital record information. There is also biographical information
complied by the donor as well as a photograph album for the Strickler family.

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Stella Strickler Tharp collection

Collection Inventory
System of Arrangement
These records are arranged in 3 series.
Series 1, Biographical Information
Folder 1, Supplied by Donor
Series 2, Genealogy Research
Folder 1, Botts History
Folder 2, Newsom History
Folder 3, Strickler History
Folder 4, Tharp History-Part 1
Folder 5, Tharp History-Part 2
Series 3, Photographs
Folder 1, Strickler Family photo album [scanned pages]
Folder 2, Strickler Family photo album

Rights and Access
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use by appointment.
Physical Access
Most records within this collection are housed in file folders. The Strickler Family photo album is secured
with cotton tying tape and wrapped in acid-free tissue paper.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Languages and Scripts of the Material
Materials in the collection are entirely in English.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated by James Tharp.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected for this collection.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals owned by the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Notes
The following sources were consulted during the preparation of the biographical history:
 Ancestry.com. Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
 FindAGrave.com. “Louise Estella ‘Stella’ Strickler Tharp”. Accessed November 8, 2016.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90619956&ref=acom
 Information found within collection
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Item sets: Finding Aids

Media: https://content.mymcpl.org/files/original/f7bf41b41a4281d56996ea2505274aec.pdf

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