Frank Alpheus Strouse was born in Laurens, Iowa on August 29, 1891 to Ferdnando Wood Strouse and Rachel Ellen Pierce Strouse. Frank came with his family to Foster County in 1900 and married Mary L. Umphlet of Warrensburg, Missouri in 1915, who was born in 1896.
They farmed in Section 2 of Rolling Prairie Township.
Their children were: Orval Kenneth, Warren Theodore, Floyd Virgil, Frank Newton, Violet Irene, Dorothy Elaine, Fern May, Leona Fay, twins Mirl and Pearl, and Dale Eugene.
Mary Strouse died in 1959.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 98B