May 05, 2010
This article was posted on the Shenandoah Valley Herald’s web site on May 26, 2010. St. Mary’s Pine Church figures prominently in the history of the Zirkle and Will families in the Shenandoah Valley. Early church records document our families’ active participation at St. Mary’s. Our Zirkle family is descended from John Rausch (Roush), noted [...]
November 11, 2009
Here’s some more family history, pertinent to both the Zirkle and Will families, that we find in Franklin Keagy’s A History of the Kägy Relationship In America, Harrisburg, 1899, pages 460-461, 611-612.
The third emigration of Kägys to this country took place Oct. 27, 1764, when the ship “Hero,” Ralph Forster, captain, from Rotterdam, last from [...]
June 06, 2009
The Library of Congress has made available a very nice time capsule of the Shenandoah Herald newspaper from 1900 to 1910.
Pictureed at the right is a blurb mentioning my great-great grandfather, William Will, and my great grandparents, Luther Samuel Zirkle and Bessie Jordan Will Zirkle, from April 10, 1903.
After a few minutes browsing, I also [...]
March 03, 2009
Here is a transcription of a letter written from Jacob Will (pictured at right) to his father while Jacob serving in the Confederacy during the Civil War. This comes to us courtesy of Martha Lytton Van Trees.
12th July 1861
Dear Father
Having promised to write to you I now comply by imparting a few lines to you [...]
January 01, 2009
I transcribed this from a photocopy found in the Will family file at the ACHS in December, 2008.
No. 16
Letter of Attorney
John Will to Andrew Shriver
Adams County
John Will came before me and one of the justices of the peace for said county and acknowledged the within letter of attorney as & for his act & deed [...]
January 01, 2009
This is a transcript from the Shenandoah Press, New Market, Virginia, August 18, 1893. It was taken from an address made by Edgar L. Zirkle at the Zirkle Reunion of 1893.This comes to us from History of the Roush family in America : from its founding by John Adam Rausch in 1736 to the present [...]
January 01, 2009
The following is excerpted from John Walter Wayland’s A history of Shenandoah County, Virginia, published by Shenandoah Publishing House, Strasburg, Virginia, in 1927.
Daniel Warrick Burruss II notes in the Mount Jackson Chamber of Commerce Newsletter, February 2005: “Prior to the War, Colonel Levi Rinker…was one of the wealthiest men and one of the largest [...]
January 01, 2009
Prof. Gordon K. Zirkle wrote in his book The Zirkle Family in America about the big Zirkle Family reunion. It was held in 1893, the story being abridged from The Shenandoah Valley and The Shenandoah Press of August, 1893. The story as written:
New Market, Virginia…Thursday, August 10, 1893. The Zirkles and their friends, to whom [...]
January 01, 2009
The Zirckle Family who came to America in the early 1720’s, came from a country that had been war-torn for many years. For this was during the time of the 30 year war between France and Germany. In their day our family lived in the most fertile garden spot in the Deutschland (Germany). The place [...]
January 01, 2009
Considerable information about the history of the Zirkle Family in America is contained in a sermon delivered by the Reverend Gordon Zirkle on the occasion of the 225th Anniversary Service of the founding of the Little Zion Lutheran Church, Indianfield Road, Telford, Pennsylvania on May 20th, 1955. Ludwig Zirkel donated the land, assisted in [...]
