Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Christopher SYDENSTRICKER

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Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, <EDEAJ @aol.com>, 1998.
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CHRISTOPHER SYDENSTRICKER - born April 25, 1846, in Greenbrier County,
was a son of Andrew and Frances (COFFMAN) SYDENSTRICKER, who were
natives of Greenbrier County, the former born March 9, 1813, and the
latter born May 24, 1813.  In the last year of the civil war Christopher
SYDENSTRICKER was conscripted into the Confederate service, and he served
in the 26th Virginia Battalion, from November 17, 1864, until the end of
the war.  May 19, 1869, in Rich Hollow, this county, he was united in
marriage with Elizabeth T. JOHNSON, and their children, six living and
one deceased, were born:  John Wesley, February 26, 1870;  Eugene,
September 9, 1872;  Mary Margaret, March 9, 1875;  Hubert, April 10,
1877;  Malinda F., December 11, 1878;  Raymond M., February 22, 1881,
died May 24, 1882;  Wallace R., march 15, 1883.  Christopher
SYDENSTRICKER's wife was born in Rich Hollow, May 21, 1849.
John Treble JOHNSON, her father, was born in Amherst County, Virginia,
April 9, 1807, and her mother, whose maiden name was Caroline TUCKWILLER,
was born in Greenbrier County, May 28, 1817, and died in this county, at
rich Hollow, November 13, 1873.  Mr. SYDENSTRICKER has been an active
Sunday school worker for sixteen years, and is still engaged in the
cause of the Master, untiring and zealous in his service.  He has been
a farmer since returning from the war, and is located in Falling Spring
District, with post office address at Frankford, Greenbrier County, West
Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.