Person:Christian Funkhouser (1)

Christian Funkhouser was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Early Land Acquisition in Virginia

Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:

• H-113: Christian Funkhowser of Augusta Co., 444 acres in said County on Holeman's Creek. Surv. Mr. George Byrne. Adj. George Brock, Henry Brock. 2 March 1752. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 57].

Records in Virginia

• M-63: Henry Backman of Frederick Co., 257 acres on Holeman's Creek of N.R. of Shannondoah in Frederick Co. Surv. Mr. Robert Rutherford. Adj. Jacob Holeman, Christian Funkhouser. 5 Oct. 1762. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 146].

1.   Wayland, John Walter. A history of Shenandoah County, Virginia. (Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Pub. House, 1927).

   The Funkhousers of the Shenandoah Valley trace their ancestry to two brothers, JOHN and CHRISTOPHER, who came to America from Berne, Switzerland, in 1700. They settled near Fredericksburg. A son of one of these, JOHN FUNKHOUSER, located four miles west of Strasburg in 1740. The family has been prominent in lower Shenandoah County for many years. JACOB, one of JOHN's sons, born in 1750, obtained a large tract of land on Mill Creek, a mile west of Mt. Jackson, and there built his home in 1775. This JACOB FUNKHOUSER was the great-grandfather of Dr. George and the great-great-grandfather of Charles A. Funkhouser, in this wise: The father of Charles was Casper: Casper, George, and Monroe were sons of Andrew; Andrew was a son of George; and George was a son of Jacob.
   The old homestead on Mill Creek is still in the family, being now owned by Dr. Edward B. Funkhouser of Trenton, N.J., a brother of Charles A. and a nephew of Dr. George Funkhouser.
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