Johann Michael Stroh was born 30 December 1742 in Sprendlingen, Offenbach, Hessen, son of Johann Philipp Stroh (b. 23 October 1712) and Katharina Schicketantz (b. 3 June 1711). He arrived as a single man in Frank in 1767. He married Elisabeth Gruning.
The Stroh family (and the other families from Sprendlingen Dreieich) can be traced back several generations in Sprendlingen using the available parish records and the published Familienbuch.
Stroh families moved from Frank to Brunnental in 1863 and 1871.
- LDS Intl Film #1193263.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 423.
- Knöß, Heinrich and Sehring, Ute. Familienbuch Sprendlingen, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (Hessische Familiengeschichtliche Vereinigung, 2013)
- Hein, Maggie, translator. Brunnental, Russia Communion Register (1870-1884) Volume 1 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2020)
