Zion Church Cemetery - Records of STRASSER - STRAWSER Family Members

    Windsor Castle, Perry Township, Berks Co, PA

    This cemetery was formerly in Windsor Twp. until Perry Twp. was formed - known as ZWC - Zion Windsor Castle. This listing was kindly provided by Sylvia Graybill. Thank you, Sylvia.


    ROW 1
    
    Franklin s/o Jacob & Rahel Miller (this is Rachael d/o Conrad & Rosina
    (Hummel) Strasser.
    10 Jan 1844-13 Jan 1844 age 0-5-3
    
    Maria Anna
    d/o Jeremias & Elisabeth Strasser
    14 Feb 1838-10 June 1839 Age 1-3-27
    
    Joel
    s/o Josua (also known as Jesse) & wf. Catarina (sister of Rachael & d/o Conrad & Rosina)
    5 Aug 1834-14 Jan 1836 age 1-5-9
    
    Lea 
    d/o Josua & Catharina Mengel (see entry above)
    28 June 1843 - 7 March 1851 age 7-8-9
    
    ROW 2
    
    Elmira Elisabeth
    d/o Jeremias & Elisabeth Straszer
    5 Sept 1853 - 18 June 1854 age 0-9-13
    
    William Conrad
    s/o Jeremias & Elisabeth Straszer
    10 May 1848 - 17 April 1852 age 3-11-8
    
    Conrad Straszer
    27 Oct 1768 - 28 Aug 1847  age 78-10-2
    m. 3rd to Rosina Hummel  30 Aug 1803
    m. 44 yyrs less 2 dys, 5 sons & 6 daughters
    (Isn't this a wonderful Tombstone, just full of Genealogy - my [Sylvia's] line)
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      Rosina Straszer nee Humel
      wife of Corad Straser
      26 Dec 1778 -12 Feb 1869  age 90-1-16
    
    Catharina Mengel nee Strasser
    wife of Josua Mengel
    18 Dec 1812 - 18 Jan 1890  age 77-1-0
    
    Josua Mengel
     20 June 1814 - 19 March 1852  age 37-8-29
      m. Catharina Straszer 2 Feb 1834
    
    One illegimate daugter born to Catharina Mengel nee Strasser after Jesse's
    death from farm hand - see 1850 census - Solomon Reinhart - handy man - not in cemetery records, just something I discovered- also in Rev. Kramlich's
    records)
    
    ROW ! - Stone 1
    
    Sareta Reinhart
    d/o Catharina Mengel
    3 April 1853 - 20 July 1853  age 0-3-17
    
    ROW 2 
    
    Noah
    s/o Jacob & Rahel Miller
    29 Dec 1854 - 11 Feb 1855  age 0-1-12
    
    ROW 3 
    
    George Sontag
    13 Jan 1780 - 19 Jan 1869  age 89-0-6
    
    Catharina Sonntag nee Straszer
     wife of George Sonntag
    16 Sept 1785 - 5 March  1853  age 67-5-19
     m. 13 Sept 1803
    
    ROW 4  
    
    Johannes Sontag
    s/o George Sontag & wf. Catharina
    3 Feb 1816 - 17 April 1817  age 1-2-14
    
    ROW 5
    
    Joseph Sontag
    s/o George Sontag & wf. Catharina Straser(in)
    b. July 1822  age  3-8-6
    
    ROW 6  
    
    Johanes Straszer
    13 Oct 1770 - 24 June 1841  age 70-8-11
    m. Magaretha Scheile
     m. 1 Jan 1793 for 48-5-24
    
    Anna Margaretha Straszer nee Scheile
    w/o Johannes Straszer
     13 Dec 1773 - 29 June 1844  age 70-6-16
    
    ROW 10
    
      Maria Elisabeth
      wife of Heinrich Straser
       (no dates)
    
    ROW 13
    
      Anna Maria Straszer nee Adam
      w/o Reuben Straszer
      22 Aug 1824 - 10 April 1864  age 39-7-19
      m. 20 May 1848 for 15-10-21
      7 sons & 3 daughters
    
      Jacob
      s/o Reuben & Mary Straszer
      27 Aug 1866 - 27 April 1870  age 3-8-0     Note:  these 2 children died
                                                                              on same day
    
      Franklin
      s/o Reuben & Mary Straszer
      14 Oct 1868 - 27 April 1870  age 1-6-13
    
      Reuben Strauser
      24 April 1827 - 11 April 1883  age 55-11-17
      Maria Strauser nee Womer                              Note: Reuben & Maria
      w/o Reuben Strauser                                               died 7 days apart
      31 Dec 1830 - 18 April 1883  age 52-3-17
    
    ROW 14
    
      Susanna Keim nee Strasser
      w/o Passawell Keim     (Percival)
      6 July 1830 - 26 Nov 1873  age 43-4-20
      
     Passawell Keim
     14 May 1828 - 2 July 1907  age 79-1-18
    
      Jefferson F.(?)
      s/o Persival & Susanna Keim
      8 Nov 1860 - 5 March 1862   age 1-3-27
    
      George W.
      s/o Persival & Susanna Keim
      18 Jan 1870 - 28 Oct 1876  age  6-9-10
    
    ROW 16
    
      William S. Miller    Note: Rachel was a Strasser
      s/o Jacob T. & Rachel Miller
      20 Dec 1840 - 15 Jan 1867  age 26-0-25 brother
    
    ROW 1   Section  1-C, left to right
    
      Daniel
      s/o Reuben & Maria Straszer
      16 June 1852  - 7 April 1857  age  4-9-21
    
      Loidy Cyrus
      s/o Agustus & Mary Strausser
      7 Aug 1864 - 4 April 1865  age  0-7-27
    
      Benjamin Straszer
      1 July 1815 - 21 Sept 1860  age 45-2-21
      m. Maria Anna Hill   11 March 1840
    
    ROW 11
    
      Elias Strasser
      d. 9 May 1862  age 28-4-6
       Co. C 96th  PA Inf  (if memory serves me he died of Scarlett Fever - at
    end tell me to check my sources, not in cemetery listing my observance) 
    
      George Strasser
      5 July 1798  - 6 May 1866  age  67-10-1
    
      Maria Strasser
      27 Oct 1798 - 29 July 1865  age  66-8-1 (as written on stone)
      17 children, 85 grand-children
      26 great grand-children
    
      Sophia
      w/o Benneville Strauser
      d/o John & Barbara Hoffman
      19 April 1821 - 7 Jan 1890  age  68-8-18
    
    ROW 11 con't
     
     Beulah S. Strauser
      1884 - 1885
    
      Henry W. Strauser
      19 July 1853 - 22 Dec. 1917  age  64-5-3
    
      Joanna Strauser
      1855 - 1934
    
    ROW 1   Section 2   (right to left from driveway)
     
      John D.
      s/o John R. & Hetty y. Strasser
      7 June 2897 - 27 Sept 1899  age 2-3-20
    
    ROW 2
    
      Mary A. Dreis
      w/o Wilson A. Strauser
      27 May 1845 - 24 Nov 1903  age 58-5-27
    
      Wilson Strauser
      3 Aug 1848 - 28 Jan 1916  age  67-5-25
    
    ROW 15  
     
      Anna Maria     (cousins that married, my GGGrandparents)
      d/o Jesse & Catharine Mengel
      wife of James S. Miller
      2 May 1842 - 7 Nov 1881  age 39-6-5   ( her mother was a Strasser)
      There is a story that has been passed down, Anna Maria went insane after
    James died & pulled all her hair out of her head, I tried to prove this & found a handwitten Minister's record that says she was insane when she died. 
       
      James S. Miller
      s/o Jacob & Rachel Miller ( his mother was a Strasser)
      husband of Anna Maria Mengel
      11 July 1838 - 25 Sept 1881  age 43-2-14
      
    ROW 16
    
      Jacob T. Miller
      17 June 1814 - 20 Aug 1884  age  70-2-3  father
      Rachel Miller nee Strasser
      w/o Jacob T. Miller
      13 Jan 1818 - 14 April 1907  age 89-3-1  mother
    (next to them is a grand-son)
      Phaenus J. Miller
      (s/o Anna Maria & James)
      28 July 1878 - 16 May 1901  age 22-9-18  brother
      
    ROW 20
    
      Sassaman S. Adam
      23 Feb 1849 - 9 Jan 1915   age   65-10-16  father
      Amelia R. Adam nee Strasser
      21 Sept 1848 - 28 Feb 1907  age   58-5-7-  mother
    
      Catharina Strasser nee Heinly
      wife of Jacob Strasser
      17 Dec 1814 - 25 Mar 1895   age  80-3-5
      
      Jacob Strasser
      Husband of Catharina Heinly
      3 Jan 2827 - 23 Jan 1889  age  72-0-20
    
    ROW 22
    
      Hanna Knittel
      wife of Isaac Strauser
      17 May 1818 - 26 May 1896  age  78-0-9
    
      Isaac Straser
      27 June 1820 - 23 Feb 1887  age  66-7-26
    
    ROW 30
    
      Hoffman/Kline
      Charles L. Hoffman  1899 - 1894  father
      Elmira F. nee Strauser  1867 - 1937  mother
      Charles D. Kline 1878 - 1936  father
      (could it  be their daughter was married to a Kline? Sylvia)
    
    ROW  35
     
      Hill
      Milton J. 23 mar 1887 - 2 Jan 1972
      Gertrude D. nee Strausser
      11 March 1895 - 19 Oct 1978
      reverse side
      Hill
      Ellen nee Wanner
      22 Oct 1857 - 10 May 1936
      John M. 24 Jan 1855 - 1933 
      (Don't know this relationship - must check my obits , SAG)
    
    ROW 7 Section 4 (left to right)
    
      James S. Mengel
      husband of Harriet Strausser
      28 Dec 1838 - 18 March 1904  age   65-2-20 father
      born in Windsor Twp., Berks Co., PA
      Harriet Strausser
      wife of James S. Mengel
      14 Aug 1843 - 24 May 1898  age  55-9-10
      born in Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., PA
    
    ROW  9
    
      Strasser
      Katie nee Seidel
      18 Jan 1874 - 26 June 1943  mother
    
      George W. Strasser
      4 Mar 1902 - 7 Jan 1972
    
    ROW 13
    
      Simon Strasser
      26 March 1841 - 5 Jan 1902   father
      Maria Stein, his wife 
      20 Oct 1842 - 3 Jan 1923  mother
    
      Joseph R. Strasser
      1856 - 1917
    
      Anna Strasser
      14 May 1882 - 10 Sept 1906   daughter
    
    ROW  14
    
      Jeremias Straszer
      22 April 1815 - 8 March 1887  age   71-10-16
    
      Elisabeth Straszer
      23 March 1818 - 20 April 2892   age  73-10-27
    
      Cornelius Strasser
      husband of Amelia Heffner
      15 Aug 1850 - 13 Jan 1895    age   44-5-28
      
      Amelia Heffner
      wife of Cornelius Strasser
      30 Jan 1849 - 21 Aug 1913   age  64-6-21
    
    ROW  16
    
      Daniel R. Mengel
      husband of Catharine Strasser
      9 Jan 1840 - 28 Jan 1891   age 51-0-19
      Catharine Strauser
      wife of Daniel Mengel
      15 July 1844 - 14 Nov 1887   age  43-3-29
    
    ROW 25
    
      Eva
      dau of Benjamin Nice & Esther Strasser
      9 Feb 1873 - 28 July 1873 0-5-8 (as written on stone)
    
    ROW  26
    
      Peter Strasser
      12 Dec 1818 - 13 Feb 1905   age  86 -2 1
    
      Esther Strasser nee Schmidt
      wife of Peter Strasser
      19 April 1820 - 11 Dec 1886  age  66-7-22
      m. May 28 1842,  6 sons & 5 daughters
    
      Henry P. Strasser
      29 April 1853 - 1 Jan 1912  age  58-8-2  father
    
    ROW 27
    
      Noah Jefferson
      s/o Joel & Sarah M. Strasser
      24 May 1871 - 26 June 1885  age  14-1-2
      
      Thomas P. Strasser
      1869 - 1951
    
    ROW  28
    
      Joel Strasser
      23 Oct 1842 - 29 Sept 1917   age 74-11-6
    
      Sarah M. Miller
      w/o Joel Strasser
      12 Dec 1844 - 13 Aug 1889  age  44-8-1
    
    ROW  33
    
      Adam
      Nevin J. 1897 - 1961
      Sgt. Medical Dept. WW1
      Mabel R. nee Strasser  1903 - 1988
    
    ROW 16
    
      Clara R. Kelchner
      dau of Allen & Sarah Strasser
      10 Jan 1871 - 20 Feb 1889  age 18-1-10
    
    ROW  18
    
      Allen R. Strasser
      husband of Sarah A. Trexler
      27 May 1846 - 13 Sept 1915  age  69-3-16  father
    
      Sarah A. Trexler
      wife of Allen R. Strasser
      11 Sept 1849 - 27 Aug 1906   age  56-11-16  mother
    
    ROW  43
    
      Infant son
      of A.J. & Kamelia Strasser
      22 Oct 1898 - 23 Oct 1898
    
      Clarence H. Strasser
      28 May 1904 - 7 June 1904
    
      Cornelius H. Strasser
      1879 - 1951    father 
    
    ROW 44
    
      Horace J. Strasser
      24 Feb 1906 - 1 Feb 1955
    
      Alvin J.
      s/o Cornelius & Amelia Strasser
      30 May 1873 - 19 Feb 1949   father
      Kamelia
      d/o Joseph L. & Lovina Smith
      4 Oct 1870 - 17 Jan 1931   mother     (Alvin's wife per Sylvia)
      (when they are together like this it is a double stone)
      
      Dorothy E. 
      dau of Wilson H. & Eva B. Strasser
      22 Apr 1903 - 21 Aug 1908
    
      Irenie A.
      dau of Wison H. & Eva B. Strasser
      23 Feb 1899 - 25 Feb 1910
    
    ROW 46
    
      Strausser
      Solon S.  6 May 1893 - 29 Mar 1964
      Mamie T. Adam  9 Sep 1895 - 2 Nov 1868
      Arthur A.  17 Feb 1921 - 19 Feb 1921  son
      Elmer S. 26 Dec 1916 -
      Irene M. Mengel  5 June 1921 - 
     
    ROW  8        Section 6 (Left to right)
    
      Stitzel
      Lewis J.  1914 - 1987
      WW1 Marker
      Pearl M.  nee Strausser   1920 -
    
      Strausser
      Alvesta V. nee Stitzel   1897 - 1864
      Clayton A.  1898 - 1978