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1765 - 1840 (75 years)| Name | Nathaniel STRAYHORN | |
| Birth | 1765 | Antrim, Ireland  |
| Gender | Male | |
| Death | 9 Apr 1840 | Union, Pennsylvania |
| Burial | Buffalo Crossroads Presbyterian Cemetery, Union, Pennsylvania |
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| Person ID | I86044 | Zentmeyer Main Tree |
| Last Modified | 10 May 2022 | |
| Father | Robert STRAYHORN, b. Abt 1733, Ayrshire, Scotland d. Aft 1820, Chester, Pennsylvania (Age 88 years) | |
| Mother | FNU LNU | |
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| Family ID | F23215 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Olympia/Olympas JODON, b. Abt 1764 d. 09 Dec 1847, East Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania (Age 83 years) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marriage | 13 Jun 1792 | St. Paul's P.E. Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Family ID | F23273 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified | 19 May 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Photos |  | Marriage records reveal the surname of Nathaniel's wife Olympus and the husband of Nathaniel's sister Margaret From St. Paul's P.E. Church, 225 S. Third St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. P.E. stands for Protestant Episcopal. This building is very much intact, and currently houses the Episcopal Community Services of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. There is also an old graveyard adjacent, but no Strayhorn graves are in evidence. Image courtesy Gary Zentmyer |
 | Actual marriage entries for Nathaniel and Margaret Strayhorn We read these entries as 'Straihorn' and not 'Straithorn,' as they were recorded in the St. Paul's register above. | |
 | St. Paul's P.E. Church, Philadelphia Now the Episcopal Community Services of the Diocese of Pennsylvania Image courtesy Gary Zentmyer | |
 | Samuel Dale House Samuel Dale, (1741-1804) a prominent early politician in the area, lived on an estate about four miles from the Buffalo Presbyterian Church. His house is currently a museum operated by the Union County Historical Society. Dale was a Scots-Irish immigrant like Nathaniel, and also an Elder at the Buffalo Church, so the two were certainly acquaintances. The docents at the Dale house told me that the Presbyterians valued education very highly, and were thus not adverse to slave labor so as to afford time to read and study, as opposed to the Germans, who generally worked the land personally. And while Dale was indeed a slave owner, there is no evidence that any Strayhorns owned slaves in Union County or anywhere else. The docents claim that the Buffalo Church congregation were referred to as the "Silk Church People" by non-Presbyterians. Photo courtesy Gary Zentmyer | |
 | Buffalo Crossroads Presbyterian Church and Cemetery The Buffalo Presbyterian Church, organized in 1773, was the first church established in Buffalo Valley, only five years after the territory was opened to settlement. Scots-Irish Presbyterians first met in the countryside where the Old Buffalo Church would later be built. In 1784, Edward and Joseph Shippen gave 5 acres to the Presbyterian congregation on which to build a meetinghouse and cemetery, at what is now the intersection of Buffalo Road and Meeting House Lane. The first meetinghouse was a log structure, which was replaced by a stone church in 1816. This stone church stood at the northwest corner of the cemetery grounds. In 1846 the present Greek Revival brick structure was constructed, necessitated by the early deterioration of the stone church when its foundation became unsound. | |
 | Plaque at Buffalo Church In the Buffalo Crossroads Presbyterian Cemetery Photo courtesy Gary Zentmyer | |
 | Headstone of Nathaniel Strayhorn At Buffalo Crossroads Presbyterian Cemetery, Union County, Pennsylvania Photo courtesy Gary Zentmyer | |
 | Cemetery View At Buffalo Crossroads Presbyterian Cemetery, Union County, Pennsylvania Photo courtesy Gary Zentmyer | |
 | Location of the graves of Nathaniel and Olympus Jodon Strayhorn At Buffalo Crossroads Presbyterian Cemetery, Union County, Pennsylvania Photo courtesy Gary Zentmyer |
