Jacob and Rebecca Strickler were the parents of the following children:

David Rollo born July 24, 1851 (married Lena McGinnis) died 1929 Lake Co., CA

Conrad born April 6, 1853 (married Sarah Foster)

Susannah "Susan" 1855-1943

John 1857-1946

Elizabeth born Sept. 12, 1858 (married William H. Foster) died Dec. 3, 1935

Sarah born May 5, 1861 (married George Bute) died Dec. 1965 buried Hamilton Co., NE

Joseph G. 1863-1911

Benjamin Franklin "Frank" 1865-1959

Flora 1867-1960

Jesse O. born Mar. 14, 1869 (married Leanora "Nora" Core 1871-1903)

William 1871-1913

Anna 1875-1963
∼There is another entry for Jacob Stickler in this cemetery with a photograph of the headstone for him and his wife Rebecca.

Married: 10 Oct. 1850 Rebecca Snyder (b. 14 Feb 1831, Fayette County, Pa, d. 1917, buried in Dickerson Run – Union Cemetery, Fayette County, Pa)
Children:

David Rollo (b. 24 July 1851, Bullskin, Fayette Co., Pa., d. 1929, Whispering Pines, California, buried Olivet Memorial Cemetery in Colma, California);

Conrad (b. 6 April 1853, married Sarah Foster and moved to Smithfield, Ohio);

Susan (b. 12 April 1855, married Aaron J. Fairchild, and remained in Fayette Co. at Dunbar, Fayette);

John H. (b. 3 May 1857, never married);

Elizabeth (b. 12 Sept. 1858, married William Foster and also moved to Smithfield, Ohio);

Sarah "Sadie" (b. 6 May 1861, married George Bute and moved to Omaha, Nebraska where they had a 480 acre farm);

Joseph G. (b. 29 May 1863, married Margaret Edwards, died 14 Oct. 1911);

Ben Franklin (9 Jan. 1865, married Nan Hornbeck and continued to live in Franklin Township);

Flora (11 Oct. 1867, married J. H. Edwards, and undertaker in Vanderbilt, Fayette Co.);

Jesse O. (b. 14 March 1869, married 1st Nora Core, 2nd Margaret Lewis, and remained in Franklin where he had a farm);

William (b. 26 May, 1871 and married Anna Cowan with whom he had a farm near Dunbar);

Anna (b. 25. Feb. 1875, married Dr. Jesse Cogan who maintained his practice on Dawson, Fayette Co.)

The first record where Jacob is named is in his father Conrad's 1850 census in Franklin as a 21 year old laborer on his father's farm, but later that year he married Rebecca Snyder. They rented the Henry Galley farm for a year, and then they purchased their own 128 acre farm in eastern Franklin Township. The couple later added to their properties by purchasing the Oglevee farm located between Franklin and Dunbar townships, and this apparently included a red brick home which the Fayette County history calls a "mansion." Jacob's brother Conrad married Sarah Oglevee which appears to be the same family and suggests a close connection between the two clans. Such a large home was necessary since the family blossomed with a dozen children. When the children were grown by 1892, this house they passed to their son William for his budding family and they built a new wood frame home on the property where their unmarried son John lived with them and helped run the farm.

In the 1860 Franklin census several families that would become related by marriage are all recorded close to each other. At dwelling #295 is Jacob Strickler, age 32 with a farm valued at $6,400 and personal property worth $1,200. Rebecca is 27, David 9, Conrad 7, Susannah 5, John 3, and Elizabeth 2, all of course born in Pennsylvania. The very next home, #296, is that of Rebecca's parents, David (age 55) and Susannah Snyder (52). He is a laborer with personal property of $100. Further down the page in dwelling #298 is the family of William Snyder, age 37, apparently a nephew David Snyder.

Another family that would become related to the Stricklers in the next generation are at the bottom of the page. This is the home of Robert Daniel McGinnis in dwelling #301, age 50, with a farm worth $3,000. Robert's wife Joannah Wadsworth is 48, and her mother Susannah and step father Joel Evans are just one page away at dwelling #282. Robert's mother, Anna Lynch McGinnis age 88, along with her daughter Mary, age 47, are next door to Robert in dwelling #303. However, son George Washington McGinnis is not present since he already married Margaret Jane Trimble and moved to Iowa. But Margaret's father David Trimble (misspelled as Trimel) is on the next page of the census, dwelling #306 with wife Lavina ("Levina" in the census), son John 14 and daughter Sarah A., age 11. He too is a laborer with personal property valued at $100.

Further down the same page are the homes of Henry Snyder age 48 (cousin of David), and Farrington Ogelvee, age 52, who was the brother-in-law of Jacob's Strickler's mother Elizabeth Varns and also the uncle of Sarah Ogelvee who married Jacob's brother Conrad . Jacob's father Conrad Strickler is on the next page, dwelling #312. The close proximity of all these families suggests how their children met and intermarried.

The family's strong connection with agriculture is illustrated in the 8 August 1879 edition of the "Keystone Courier" of Connellsville, concerning Jacob's brother Conrad Strickler from the Upper Franklin: "Conrad Strickler, the champion peach and grape grower in this county, reports the peach crop an entire failure, but the grape crop very fine. He has growing on his premises about three thousand peach trees and many thousand grape vines. He made from his last year's crop upwards of fifty barrels of wine, besides selling large quantities of grapes."

Jacob remained a Presbyterian all his life in contrast to his wife Rebecca whose family had strong roots in the German Baptist "Dunkard" Church, although the couple seemingly had a close relationship since they had a total of 12 children born over 24 years. Jacob was a respected Democrat in local politics and served for a time as the local school director (something like a superintendent). The county history records he was a well-to-do farmer who was also successful in cattle raising and horse dealing (a trait he might have passed on to his son David who had something of the horse-trader spirit in him and was continually looking for the next opportunity). The 1900 census shows Jacob, age 71 (should be 78?), Rebecca (age 68), married 49 years, and son John H (age 43) living on the farm in Franklin Twp. Its indicates that all could read and write, and there was no mortgage on the farm. Just three households away is son Franklin, age 36, and his wife with their five children. With much of his family close by, Jacob lived the rest of his life on the farm and passed away in 1908.