June 06, 2011
Shenandoah Herald, June 4, 1884, page 3. The Zirkle Re-union. According to previous announcement, there was a re-union of the Zirkle families in this region of country, held at the Endless Caverns, 4 miles south of this place, on Thursday, May 29, instant. There was a large crowd present, composed largely of Zirkle families and [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 building [...]
January 01, 2009
The Zirkle Connection, A brief history of Roller Family Ties, compiled by Charles E. Roller, January 1998. The Zirkle family heritage in Colonial America is extremely rich in history and worthy of much more study than I can provide in this chapter. To get an idea of how the Zirkle and Roller family trees entwined, [...]
