Rev. William Cokely Strebling
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Birth: 18 Mar 1795 - Albemarle Co, VA
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Death: 18 Dec 1872 - Jacksonville, Cass Co, IL
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Notes for William Cohely Stribling:• Occupation, Preacher and Farmer
Became a Methodist Minister. Lived near Salem Church 3 mi East of Jacksonville. It was one of the earliest religeous societies formed in the county. It was noted for the residence of a remarkably gifted and singular minister, Rev. William Stribling". Illinois Historical Journal Vo. 4 p. 310 says "Among early preachers in Illinois were some noted for various eccentricities, William C. Stribling was an illustration of this. He was a very able and eloquent preacher. His command of language was most extraordinary. He asministered the following reproof to a user of tobacco: "venerable sir, the doleterious effluvia eminating from your tobacconistic reservoir so overshadows our occular optics and so obfuscates our sensorium that our respirable apparatus must shortly be obtunded unless, through your abundant suavity and pre-eminent politeness, you will disimbogue that illusinistic tube from the stimulating and stermatatory ingredient, which replenishes the rotundity of the vastness of its concavity."
More About William Cohely Stribling:
Religion: Methodist Minister
Residence: 1803, Logan County, KY
• Biography, 1894
"Plat book of Morgan County Illinois, 1894"
REV. WILLIAM COKELY STREBLING was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, March 18, 1795. He was the oldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth Strebling, who were citizens of Virginia. They emigrated to Kentucky, and settled near Lexington, in 1825. Soon after, he settled on a farm, which he had previously purchased, in Logan county, where he resided till his death, in 1872. His wife lived several years after, when she removed with her son Benjamin, who is now residing in Beardstown, Cass county, Ill. She died near the present site of Virginia, Cass county, in June, 1834. Thomas Strebling was a farmer; he and his wife were members of the Methodist church, and died in the triumph of a living faith.
The subject of this biography received his early education in the common schools of Virginia and Kentucky, with one term at a grammar school. He first experienced the pardoning love of his Saviour October 12, 1810, and after an experience of sixty-two years, he is still firm upon the Rock, Christ Jesus. He commenced his ministerial labors as an exhorter, in 1812, and was first licensed to preach January 24, 1813, when he commenced on a circuit in Virginia. He continued in different fields of labor in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri for fourteen years. He was married October 2, 1821, to Miss Mahola, only daughter of Jonathan and Lourana Becraft of Bourbon county, Kentucky. By this union he had two children; viz.: Mary Elizabeth, born December 8, 1822, wife of James H. Lurton, one of the prominent citizens of the county residing east of Jacksonville, and Joanna, who died at the age of sixteen. In 1827 while at the residence of his father-in-law, engaged in farming, as a local preacher he was very efficient, and he has thus labored for many years of his life in the past, preaching less latterly, on account of his bodily afflictions. In 1832 he settled on the farm east of Jacksonville, now occupied by his son-in-law, Mr. Lurton, where he resided till June, 1871, when he removed to his present residence in the southeast part of the city of Jacksonville. Mr. Strebling has a Christian experience of over sixty years. The record of his labors, with their fruits, can never be fully estimated till the secrets of eternity are unfolded. By his upright walk he has left an example which corroborates the percepts he has taught from the pulpit for so many years.
Spouses and Children
1. *Mahola Becraft
Marriage: 2 Oct 1821
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Children:
1. Mary Elizabeth Strebling
2. Joanna Strebling