PAGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Strickler Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Strickler graveyard:
                  1936 Nov. 20
                  Research made by Cannie C. Morris

Cemetery Location:  5 miles northeast of Shenandoah, Virginia
                    Page County, Virginia


DATE:

1821, oldest inscription.

OWNERS:

J. W. Strole, present owner. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

This cemetery is in bad condition, overgrown with bushes and briars.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

About 1770 Christian Strole came from Germany as a stowaway on a ship.  The 
Captain wanted to take him back to Germany but he pleaded so effectively that he 
was allowed to remain with a friend who settled near what is now New York.  
Later he came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and lived there for awhile.  He 
then came to the Shenandoah Valley where he lived with Michael Kiser (Keyser) 
and married his daughter, Elizabeth Kiser (Keyser) on the 24th day of March, 
1788.  They had several children, among them John, Jacob, and George Strole, 
each living to a ripe old age.  They have many descendants throughout the United 
States.  

The following are the inscriptions on the tombstones in this cemetery:


1821
Here lies S. Graves


In memory of
C. Strole
Departed this life
the 18th March, 1841


Jacob Strole
Died June 13, 1860
Aged 70 years, 11 mo, 12 days




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  J. W. Strole
             M. A. Strole
             George Strole
             All of Shenandoah, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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