OLD BRICK CHURCH CEMETERY, (Mt Pleasant Road aka Brick Road), COLBERT (eastern) COUNTY, ALABAMA

History of Streit and other families in the Old Brick Church Community.

These Streits were found listed in the Old Brick Church Cemetery. We have information here about their families and where they lived in olden times.

Streits' interred in Old Brick Church Cememtery
STREIT, Fred, 1861 - 1941. (shares a memorial stone with Margaret Streit) / Obituary 15 Dec 1941, Florence Times
and
STREIT, Margaret 1861 - 1931. (w/o and shares a memorial stone with Fred Streit.)  / Obituary 26 Feb 1931, Florence Times
STREIT, Christian, 5 Jun 1865 - 8 Oct 1937. Footstone. (shares a memorial stone with Annie Rabe Streit.)
and
STREIT, Annie Rabe, 12 Sep 1874 - 16 Dec 1965. Footstone. (shares a memorial stone with Christian Streit.)
STREIT, Annie Reichart-Burger, 1877 - 1936. (2nd wife of Samuel Streit.)
STREIT, Albert, 9 Feb 1897 - 7 Jan 1973. (Son of Christian & Annie Rabe Streit)
and
STREIT, Eileen, 1 Jan 1902 - 24 Feb 1986. (w/o Albert Streit, b. 1897)
STREIT, John D., 24 Feb 1890 - 12 Jul 1963. Military marker: "Alabama PVT Co B 9 Infantry 2 Div World War I PH". (PH=Purple Heart; shares a memorial stone with Sue W. Streit; son of Fred & Margaret Streit)
and
STREIT, Sue W., 27 May 1902 - 1 Nov 1980. (shares a memorial stone with John D. Streit.)
STREIT, David, 19 Nov 1910 - 27 Jul 2001. (h/o and shares a memorial stone with Mildred Lee Streit; s/o Christian & Annie Rabe Streit; brother of Albert Streit.)
and
STREIT, Mildred Lee 10 Dec 1913 - 22 Jan 1988. "Married Oct 30, 1932". (d/o William Lawrence "Bill" Summers and Annie Lee Walker Summers; w/o and shares a memorial stone with David Streit.)
STREIT, Evelyn C., 15 Jul 1918 - 23 Nov 2000. (shares a memorial stone with Lucile C. Gargis.)
STREIT, George W., (22 Feb) 1888 - (13 Jul) 1952. Military marker: "Alabama PVT 13 Prov Co World War I 22 Feb 1888 - 13 Jul 1952". (h/o and shares a memorial stone with Myrtle Streit; son of Fred & Margaret Steit.)
and
STREIT, Myrtle, 1900 - 1953. (w/o and shares a memorial stone with George W. Streit.)
STREIT, John S., 1903 - 1953.
STREIT, Herman 1911 - 1978. (Son of Sam & Jocey Streit; Herman & Louise lived south of Hatton School about 1 mile on east side of rd; shares a memorial stone with & h/o Louise Streit; Herman and Louise owned and operated Streit Store at Little Hatton several years.)
and
STREIT, Louise, 1923 - 1973. (shares a memorial stone with Herman Streit.)
STREIT, Margaret Jane, 24 Oct 1935 - 23 Aug 1940. "Dau. of Geo. & Myrtle Streit".
STREIT, Willie "Bud Willie", 7 Feb 1900 - 6 Jan 1969. (Remained single; son of Fred & Margaret Streit; Kicked in head as a baby by a horse; never married or left home. very pleasant person, failed to display the drive for success of his siblings.)
GAMMILL, Robert Earl, 26 Dec 1900 - 4 Nov 1973.
and
GAMMILL, Sadie Streit, 7 Apr 1904 - 25 Jun 1978. (Daughter of Christian and Annie Streit; husband of Robert Earl Gammill.)
BUELL, Ralph, 8 Aug 1887 - 11 Mar 1962.
and
BUELL, Mary Streit, 3 Nov 1883 - 10 Jan 1985. (wife of Ralph Buell; daughter of Fred & Margaret Streit)
WEAVER, John R. Jr., 23 Jun 1920 - 15 Sep 1998, 1st Lt US Army Air Forces, WWII.
and
WEAVER, Fern Streit Buell, 24 Feb 1919 - 31 Jan 2006. (Wife of John R. Weaver Jr.; dau of Mary Streit Buell.)
WEAVER, John R. III, 4 Oct 1948 - 26 Apr 2007. (Son of John & Fern Streit Weaver)

Streits' interred up the road east of here in the Hatton Baptist Church Cemetery In earlier times this cemetery was known as the Jarman Cemetery. Those earlier inhabitants of the Jarmon surname that lie here were connected to the founding of the Pond Creek Baptist Church which later become the Hatton Baptist Church:

STREIT, Samuel "Sam", 21 Feb 1870 - 20 Aug 1955. (lived in the old antebellum house south of Hatton School.  He and his 1st wife's graves are a located on Mt Pleasant Road.
and
STREIT, Jocey, 8 Nov 1877 - 14 Oct 1918. (1st wife of Wife of Samuel Streit.)
AUSTIN, Emma Streit, 9 Aug 1899 - 22 Sep 1924.
STREIT, Louise E., 25 Nov 1911 - 6 Dec 1911.

This family of Streits' came to Colbert County from Switzerland in 1882. There was three brothers - Fred, Christian & Samuel. We will mention them and some of their offspring here.
Charlie Streit (not listed above) was married to Dallas Whitlock. He owned & ran the milk operation in Sheffield called Streit Milk Company beginning about 1933. The milk Plant was probably located 1 block north of Montgomery Ave in Sheffield, Alabama. Charlie's wife was also connected to a family who owned a Milk Plant in Decatur. Might this be the one on 6th Ave., an operation which now has a very storied history and even employed this author in recent time. Charlie was the son of Christian Streit b. 1870 in Switzerland. D. 1951 east Colbert County Al. buried in the Old Brick Church Cemetery.


The old Jarman House.

George Streit was the son of Fred Streit and a cousin of Albert who was born in 1897. George had a farm about where Mr. Frank Whitlock the Barber lived in more recent times. That is about where Shegog Creek crosses under Mt Pleasant Road today, but on the south side of the road.

Fred Streit b. 1865 later owned the large two-story brick house built by Amos Jarman (1789-1861), in the 1820s. Jarman was a wealthy land owner who settled here about 1820. The house has beautiful mantels and woodwork throughout. Jarman and his wife Mary were both natives of North Carolina. In 1822 Jarman assisted in organizing Pond Creek Baptist Church (north of his home on Mt Pleasant Road) near his plantation, the church was later known as Mt Pleasant, but it no longer exists. See that history under Hatton Baptist Church. The Jarman farm became the Fred Streit family farm. In 1942 Mr. and Mrs. Delony B. Blythe inherited the home from the Streit heirs and have done a remarkable job in restoring and maintaining this property thru the generations and years.

Christian Streit b. 1865 Switzerland, founded a farm between Hatton School and Underwood aka Mitchell Cross roads on the north side of the road. It was or at least became a single story white framed home with prominent red brick columns supporting the porch east side of the home. The home was later owned by a son David. David Streit was the brother of Albert b. 1897. David & Mildred Lee inherited or bought the farm from his father Christian Streit. The driveway of this place sloped gradually up the hill for 350 yards to the house leaving the place always prominently visible & well maintained from second street as one drove by.

The Christian and later David Streit farm in more recent times

Albert & Eileen Streit lived also on the north side of Second Street further to the west about a 1/2 mile from David, but in a home built after 1940, and near the road. Eileen (pronounced I' leen') was a 2d grade Teacher at Hatton Elementary School when I was there. She & Mrs Gammill stirred the musical talents of all thier students with songs & musical endeavors of all kinds. Mrs Gammill ordered the whole class flutes at one time and taught them all to play that instrument in unison & harmony.

Sam Streit came into possession of the old Stanley antebellum home & farm. It is believed he turned the farm into a large dairy operation at some point. There are large barns on the premises which still stand today. This massive old historic home that dates to about 1840 was located south of Hatton School.  Sam and his 1st wife's Jocey are interred in the Hatton Baptist Church Cemetery on Mt Pleasant Road 3 miles from this place, but Sam's second wife is believed by me to have been Annie Reichart-Burger, 1877 - 1936 interred here in Old Brick cemetery. She brought step-children into Sam Streit's family.

A graphic rendition of an old Stanley-Streit antebellum home south of Little Hatton.

Herman Streit 1911-1978 (s/o Sam & Jocey Streit) & his wife Louise lived south of Hatton School about 1 mile on the east side of the road across from the old Antebellum home where it is believed Sam Streit lived in earlier times. He drove the school bus for a time and in later Herman and Louise owned and operated Streit's Store at Little Hatton for several years. The store was later sold to one of the Austin's who lived nearby who operated it as Austin's Grocery.


Herman & Louise Streit home. (Herman was my bus driver when I was a child for a while, but so was Johny Streit for a time.)

There was a family with last name of Burger; that lived in the area probably in the what would become the old 50 acre Austin farm home south of Hatton School & near where the Sam & Herman Streit homes & farms were located. They had three children, two boys and girl. The girl was in my (Albert) class at Colbert Co. Hi School. One boy was older and one younger than me. I was told that these were my cousins. My sister, whom I asked about the Burgers' said they moved to Birmingham, Alabama. I don't remember the parents. (Albert Streit 2010.) Commentary. The later Burger family were the step children of Sam Streit and the children of Annie Burger Streit who married Sam after Sam's first wife died.

Oleham's in Mt Pleasant Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
OLEHAM, Edythe Virginia, b. Nov. 8, 1922 - unknown (unmarried, daughter, after her parents died she finished college (UNA) and taught at Hatton School Elementary for a time.)
OLEHAM, James Anthony "Tony", Dec. 3, 1958 - Apr. 21, 1994 (I believe this is Virgil's adopted son)
OLEHAM, Thomas A, Nov. 3, 1900 - Apr. 25, 1968, (Father of George, Virgil, Marshall & Virginia, Husband of Kate. Life was hard for him after he lost his wife as they were a farm family and all hands were needed. Today their two story beautiful old white frame house no longer stands. It stood majestically for at least a 100 years about 400 yards south of Hatton School on Hatton School Road on the west side & very near the road.)
OLEHAM, Katie, Jul. 14, 1902 - Mar. 1, 1966 (wife of Thomas A. Oleham. She was killed by a road construction grader, in a freak accident which took place while walking to the Streits store to purchase groceries; Tom never got over that and eventually took his life a couple of years after the accident.)
OLEHAM, Virgil G., Apr. 19, 1921 - Aug. 1, 2000 (son of Tom & Kate Oleham and husband of Mary Peden Oleham. Served many years in the Alabama National Guard in the Sheffield Amory, 115th Signal Battalion.)
OLEHAM, Marshall James, Dec 26, 1927 - Feb 4 1988 Sgt, US Army Korea, (s/o of Tom and Kate Oleham)

Written by C. Wayne Austin. Much of the Streit Family information was compiled from letters to/from Albert Streit a descendent of Christian Streit.