Julia Anna Bloss

Julia arrived in America, from Germany, with her parents when she was an infant. Many did not think she would surive the rigors of the trip. Her first husband was to a Yankee by the name of Gier, who was an alcholic.

Julia had one child, Trena, with Mr Geer and then divorced him. She later married Atchinson O’Brien and they had two children, Augusta Bessie and Julia Mae.

After Atchinson died she married a third time to a Russian – German by the name of Daniel Strecker, he was as old as her oldest daughter. Julia died instantly from injuries that were sustained from being hit by a truck as she stepped off a trolley car.

The man who hit her felt so bad that he also died shortly after the accident. Julia never attended school and never learned to read and write.

From the Bridgeport Post
October 12, 1927
Death Car Drivers Given Jail Terms in Superior Court

Henry Nothnagle, fifty-four of Milford, whose automobile caused the death of Mrs. Julia Strecker of 532 Union avenue on September 8 in Devon, was sent to jail for six months by John Rufus Booth of New Haven yesterday.

From the Bridgeport Post
November 18, 1927
Nothnagle Denied Commutation

Henry Nothnagle Mildford expressman who was sentenced several weeks ago in criminal Superior of New Haven to six months in jail following the death of Mrs. Daniel Strecker, 532 Union Avenue, Bridgeport, resulting when a truck operated by Nothnagle struck her in Devon, lost his plea on Tuesday for commutation of sentence.

Following the accident, Coroner Mix found Nothnagle criminally responsible for the accident. When Nothnagle was sentenced he made a plea that sentenced be deferred until he could make arrangements for the handling of his business; he plea being denied by Judge Rufus Booth of New Haven who sentenced him. Nothnagle is now serving his sentence at the county jail, and is a trusty in the fireroom force at the county court house.