Possum Strous

So this is a photo of my great uncle and my  grandfather taking down a road sign, which seems kind of nefarious. However,  this road sign has our family's last name of Strous on it, and it wasn't just a random road sign,  either. That road was named after our family,  who had lived in the area for about 200 years at this  point. At the moment, there's nobody living there, which is the southeast hills of Ohio. So there's a little town called Adelphi that probably no one has  ever heard of, but it's it's near Circleville, the big  pumpkin show 

town. 

This photo was taken during a tradition of returning, because you can see kind of in the side of the photo, there's a bit of a family camper. So this was one of the family camping trips, and I think this was in the mid 80s, where they went back, because most of the family was not living there at the time. At that time the Strous farm still existed; we also had another family member called Uncle Harold Harmon, which I never got to meet, but he also had a farm where most of the family reunions would take place.

All of the family reunions I remember took place in Circleville. So I never got to experience the family farm. But I hear stories about it.