Charles E. Strode & Alberta Glascock
The Strode Family
Susan Leona Strode was the daughter of Charles E. Strode and Alberta
Glascock. They also had two sons, Charles Jr., born in 1913, and Lloyd, born in
1919.
Charles and Alberta Strode first appeared in Hannibal in 1905. He was born in
Rolla, Missouri on April 4, 1878 to James D. Strode and Anna Dodd. She came
from Ralls County, born September 2, 1877. Her parents were Jacob and
Susan Hickman Glascock.
Charles went into the coal and wood business. Between 1911 and 1914, he
seems to disappear from Hannibal. Perhaps he participated in World War One,
or they moved elsewhere for a while.
When he returned in 1914, he joined Louis Wilhelm's grocery business, making
it Wilhelm & Strode, at 1300 Broadway.
By 1916, however, he had started his own grocery with Ollie C. Glascock, who
was likely related to Alberta. They called it Strode and Glascock, at 1300
Market St.
Charles' next business venture came in 1918, when he rejoined Wilhelm, but
this time in automobiles. It was the Wilhelm-Strode Motor Co., at 806-610
Broadway, and he was its vice-president. The Secretary was F.V. Hedges.
Charles E. Strode
He continued in that enterprise until 1923, when Charles and Hedges started
their own company, selling tires at 115 Broadway. Charles Strode also entered
politics that year, getting elected as a city Alderman from the 6th ward. He held
that office through 1925. In 1926 he was appointed Hannibal's City Clerk, the
position he occupied until June 4,1929, when he suddenly died on the job. The
front page of the
Jefferson City Post-Tribune
reported:
HANNIBAL CLERK DROPPED DEAD
C.E. Strode Had Just Been Elected For New Term.
Ten minutes after he had been reappointed City Clerk of Hannibal in the city
council chamber last night Charles E. Strode, 51, dropped dead. He had been
city clerk for two and one half years.
Physicians said that Strode death was due to a cerebral hemorrhage. He had
been ill Sunday but was in his office all day yesterday preparing for the council
meeting last night at which Mayor J.B. Robinson and the new city council were
inaugurated.
Strode had resided in and near Hannibal all his life. His widow, 3 children and
two sisters, Mrs. John S. Wood, St. Louis, and Mrs. Morris Anderson, wife of a
former Hannibal mayor, survive.
2202 Broadway Next door was 2000, the Wilhelm residence
Susan Strode, born March 30, 1912, was only 17 when her father died. As the oldest of the 3
children, it was her task to help support the family. She soon became a physician's assistant,
working for Dr. W.F. Francka for 22 years. She remained dedicated to taking care of her
mother, until April 15, 1948, when Alberta Strode died.
Her brother Charles Jr. ran a coal business. He married Hester Webb and had two
daughters, Judy and Stephanie, and one son, Charles III, who did not survive. Lloyd sold
tires, and married Frances Hopkins. Both their sons, Walter and Lloyd Jr., became doctors of
osteopathy.
In 1951, Susan married my father, Nolan Waller. He died on November 28, 1952, at the age
off 44.
On March 29, 1953, one day before Susan's 41st birthday, my premature half-sister
Patricia Sue Waller
was born, weighing 2 pounds and 9 ounces. A graduate of
Northeast Missouri State, she now lives in the Tampa, Florida area, working in the education
field.. Her son, Cole, is attending college.
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by Michael Owens Waller
source of info/website
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