Individual Details
Gilbert Motier 'Lafayette' Strait MD
(30 Sep 1834 - 18 Oct 1863)
Events
| Birth | 30 Sep 1834 | South Carolina |  | ||
| Education | Abt 1850 | The Citadel | | ||
| Education | Abt 1854 | medical school - New York City, New York | | ||
| Occupation | Abt 1858 | MD | | ||
| Military | 1861 | Civil War Captain of the Catawba Guards, 6th Regiment. Also served in the 17th Regiment as an Assistant Surgeon | | ||
| Death | 18 Oct 1863 | of dysentary while at home on leave | | ||
| Alt name | Lafayette Strait | ||||
| Death | during the Civil War | |
Families
| Father | * Jacob Fox Strait (1808 - 1890) |
| Mother | * Isabella "Bella" Wylie (1811 - 1881) |
| Sibling | Samuel Strait ( - 1860) |
| Sibling | Sarah Sallie Strait (1833 - ) |
| Sibling | Anna B Strait (1836 - 1860) |
| Sibling | Peter Wylie Strait (1838 - 1850) |
| Sibling | Richard Evans Strait (1840 - 1860) |
| Sibling | Leonard J Strait (1842 - 1850) |
| Sibling | Henrietta Antoinette Strait (1844 - 1919) |
| Sibling | Hon, Dr. Thomas Jefferson Strait (1846 - 1924) |
| Sibling | Arsonia Anne Strait (1849 - 1930) |
| Sibling | Susan Isabella Kelso Strait (1852 - 1860) |
| Sibling | * William Francis Strait MD (1854 - 1898) |
Endnotes
1. 1850 U.S. census, Chester Co., SC, population schedule, , enumeration district (ED) not stated, image 115 of 195, 895, Jacob F Strait, farmer, next to Peter Wylie; digital images, Ancestry (ww.ancestry.com : accessed 18 November 2014); NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 851.
2. "A Brief Sketch of the Strait Family of Chester and York Counties, South Carolina by William Boyce White, Jr, 1974, in Supporting Documentation with Application of 'Name Restricted' (629046) on William Wylie (A129071);" National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogical Research System, digital image (http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/ : 8 Jul 2017), document 8812999. Access only available at DAR Library, Washington, DC..
3. Edited by William Francis Strait III, Gilbert Motier Lafayette Strait (1834-1863): Student, Physician, Soldier, Surgeon His Letters and His Times 1851-1863 (N.p.: self published, n.d. [1979 ca]), 2.
4. Edited by William Francis Strait III, Gilbert Motier Lafayette Strait (1834-1863): Student, Physician, Soldier, Surgeon His Letters and His Times 1851-1863 (N.p.: self published, n.d. [1979 ca]), 2.
5. Edited by William Francis Strait III, Gilbert Motier Lafayette Strait (1834-1863): Student, Physician, Soldier, Surgeon His Letters and His Times 1851-1863 (N.p.: self published, n.d. [1979 ca]), 2.
6. Edited by William Francis Strait III, Gilbert Motier Lafayette Strait (1834-1863): Student, Physician, Soldier, Surgeon His Letters and His Times 1851-1863 (N.p.: self published, n.d. [1979 ca]), 2.
7. Mrs. Catherine Evans Hinton, Wylie Record: Peter Wylie and Annie Hawthorn rom County Antrim Ireland (found at Familysearch.org: Self published, unknown), 9 .
8. Mrs. Catherine Evans Hinton, Wylie Record: Peter Wylie and Annie Hawthorn rom County Antrim Ireland (found at Familysearch.org: Self published, unknown), 9 .
9. Mrs. Catherine Evans Hinton, Wylie Record: Peter Wylie and Annie Hawthorn rom County Antrim Ireland (found at Familysearch.org: Self published, unknown), image 61.
10. "A Brief Sketch of the Strait Family of Chester and York Counties, South Carolina by William Boyce White, Jr, 1974, in Supporting Documentation with Application of 'Name Restricted' (629046) on William Wylie (A129071);" National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogical Research System, digital image (http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/ : 8 Jul 2017), document 8812999. Access only available at DAR Library, Washington, DC..
11. Edited by William Francis Strait III, Gilbert Motier Lafayette Strait (1834-1863): Student, Physician, Soldier, Surgeon His Letters and His Times 1851-1863 (N.p.: self published, n.d. [1979 ca]), 2.
12. William B White, Jr, "A Genealogical Sketch of the Strait Family of Chester and York Counties, South Carolina," (2000); binder: "Strait," William Boyce White, Jr Papers; Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Rock Hill, SC.