CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Strange
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Strange

  Many emigrants, bearing the name Strange, came to America in early times. In
1619 one of these in the employment of the British government under the command
of Yeardley, —took passage in the ship George; returned to Great Britain and
came again, with a brother, on the Pauline., and settled near Jamestown, Va.,
where he became a large land holder. A grant was given him, (with others) of
129O acres near Jamestown, "extending into the woods," in recognition of
meritorious service to the government, and was signed by Governor West (as
recorded 1635 in Charles City county).

  Alexander Strange was a private in the Lunenburg county regiment under Major
William Caldwell in September, 1758. The first of the name found in Campbell was
John M. Strange, who was born in 1719, came to Virginia in 1747 and married that
same year, Fannie Smith; in 1782 he patented 346 acres of land on the south fork
of Falling river; purchased of Williston Talbot 332 acres on the north side of
Morton's creek, a north fork of the south fork of Falling river, on both sides
of Naked creek, extending from Burnley's to McReynold's line. His will, probated
in 1815 mentions the children of his deceased son, James;-

-children of his deceased son, John, who married Evelina B. Watson, and had two
daughters, Evelina, and Elizabeth (who married James Reynolds, attorney-at-law,
and moved to Seattle, Washington);—

—Robert, who m. Elizabeth, the dau. of Joshua Early, Sr., of Bedford county, and
had three sons, Nathaniel, Robert and Thomas and Sophia, who m., in 1815,
William Day. Robert Strange, Sr., was major of the 1st battalion, 117th Va.
Reg., in the war of 1812;

—children of son, Nathaniel, Sr., to whom was given the homestead. Nathaniel's
will (1811) names wife, Martha;— daughter, Elizabeth, who m., 1814, John R.
Jennings; son, Robert, who m. Eliza R. Wratson; daughters Edith, who m. ____
Andrews; Fannie, who m. Robert Woods; and Martha, who m., 179O, Captain Joshua
Early, Jr. Captain Early of Dickinson's 3rd Va. Reg., was killed on Nov. 3rd,
1814, in the engagement at Ellicott City, Md., aged 46 years, and his inventory
was recorded in 1815 at Bedford C. H., with Alexander Austin, John Thompson and
William Irvine, administrators upon the estate. In 1798 Nathaniel Strange, Sr.,
patented 15O acres on the south fork of Falling river. Children of Capt. Joshua
and Martha Strange-Early:

    Frances m. Abner W. Christian—family moved north; descendants in Pennsylvania.

    Martha m. John Preston—family moved West and South.

    Amorilla m. Charles Little, moved to West Virginia.

    Lucy m. Robert Leftwich, moved to Kentucky.

    Eliza m. Thomas Key; son died in the Confederate army.

    Charlotte A. m. Wilson Matthews, moved to Texas.

    Silas killed in the Confederate army.

    Clement moved first to Louisiana, m. Lou, dau. of Colonel Thomas Holladay;
moved to Kentucky, and left an orphan daughter, Lottie, who came to reside in
the home of her great uncle, Bishop Early, where she died.


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