BIO:  ANDREW GREGG STROCK, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 559-560
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    ANDREW GREGG STROCK. Among the oldest settlers of Cumberland county must be
  numbered the Strock family, the founders of which came from Germany early in
  the eighteenth century.

    (I) Joseph Strock, the great-grandfather of Andrew Gregg, lived at
  Churchtown, and died at an extreme old age.

    (II) Jacob Strock, son of Joseph, also lived at Churchtown, and he was
  accidentally killed at the age of seventy-six years. He was the father of the
  following children, all now deceased: George; Jacob died in Ohio; Mary
  Zimmerman died in Ohio; Elizabeth; Rachel Coover; Rebecca Sadler; Margaret;
  Joseph; David died in Ohio; and John died in Churchtown.

    (III) George Strock, son of Jacob, was born in Churchtown, in 1806. After
  receiving a liberal education he followed farming, and in 1853, purchased a
  large farm in Churchtown, which he operated for twenty years. He was a well
  known man in his community, and a stanch Democrat. His death occurred in
  1886, when he was about eighty years of age. His wife, Margaret Bricker, was
  a daughter of Joseph Bricker, one of Cumberland county's representative men at
  an early day, and the owner of several hundred acres of land between
  Churchtown and Dillsburg. To George and Margaret Strock were born the follow-

    560  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

  ing children: Andrew Gregg, Alfred B., Barbara, Jacob, George, Emma, Flora
  and Elizabeth. They were highly respected, Christian people, though members
  of no church organization.

    Andrew Gregg Strock was born in Churchtown, Jan. 3, 1846, and received his
  education there, later engaging in farming. In 1868, he married Mary E.
  Brindle, of a well known family in Cumberland county. Their children are:
  Edith married George Kauffman, engineer at the Pennsylvania steel works, and
  they live in Newmarket; they have four children, all girls. Clara married
  Jacob Snyder, a farmer of York county. Hugh W. married Bertha Singheiser.
  Mary and George live at home. In 1897, 'Mr. Strock bought his present home of
  fifty-three acres of excellent land, and he also conducts a dairy in
  Mechanicsburg.

    Mr. Strock has a brother, Alfred B. Strock, who was born in Churchtown in
  1833, and has followed farming all his life. He married, in 1858, Elizabeth
  Buttorff, of Boiling Springs, who died in 1894, aged fifty-four. Their
  children are Ella M. Stauffer, living in Kansas, Cora Hoover, living in
  Mechanicsburg, and Hermes, of Kansas.