The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-06
'DR. C. B. STR|CKLER
TOBE BURIED HERE
Funeral of Brilliant Thcologian
From Union Seminary To
Morrow Morning.
HAD FINE WAR RECORD
Was Chairman Of Washington
and Lee University Board
and Ripe Scholar.

The funeral of the Rev Givens
Brown Strickler, y. D.. LII D.,
! theologian, scholar and Confederate
veteran, who died Monday night in an
Atlanta sanitorium after lons illness.
VIII be held tomorrow morning ut 10
o'clock AT the chapel of Union Theolo-
gical Seminary. The services will he
conducted by his associates in the
faculty of the seminary. assisted by
members of the seminary board of
trustees. His remains will be buried
in Hollywood Cemetery beside those
of his wife.
The honorary pallbearers will be
Governor William Hodges Mann, John
S. Munce, r. l.. Bemiss. Owsley Sanders
William r. Miller, r. Darlington
Moseiey. Or. g. Watson James and
George T. Haw
The active pallbearers will be James
w. Gordon, Lucien Curry, j. c. Storey
NJ. NJ. Grey. y. e. Montgomery. p. T.
Allen a. S. Maxwell and L. J. Hertig
The body lay in state yesterday
Church. In Atlanta. of which DR..
Strickler was formerly pastor, and was
taken aboard 4 train in the afternoon
for Richmond by members of his
family. The funeral cortage will reach
the city this afternoon at sos O'Clock
v.
body will Immediately be removed to
Watts Chapel, at the Union Theological
Seminary.
Taken Ill In June.
DR.. Stricken was taken i'll in
Laurens, S. c. where he stopped over
on his way home from meeting of the
Presbyterian General Assembly in
Atlanta to visit his daughter, Mrs. G.
+. Rankin about June L. He was
critically i'll for several days and then
recovering slightly, was removed to
the Atlanta hospital. His physicians
recovery after he was stricken in
LaurcnS.
He married Miss Mary F. Moore, of
Fancy Hill. Rockbvidge County. in
1871. She died in Richmond on June
%. 1905. Five children were born to
the wife of DR.. George H. Denny.
former president of Washington and
Lee University and now head of the
University of Alabama The other
children are Dr. Cyrus Stricken. a
physician. of Atlanta. Ca: Mrs. q. l..
Timmons, Of oklahoma; Mrs. G. f.
Rankin. of Laurens. S. c.. and Miss
Mary Stricklcr, OF Richmond.
AT the time of his death. DR.. Strick-
Ter was professor of theology in Union
Theological Seminary. rector Of Wash
ington and Lee University, and chair
-
his active ministry and work in the
seminary he had sat in every court OF
the Presbyterian Church. He was
Earded rs master of clear logic. a
finished speaker, and no man stood
higher In the councils of his denomi-
nation. In 1878 he received the hon
orary degree OF doctor of divinity from
Washington and Lee University, and
tho degree of LII d. was bestowed on
him in 1894 by Davidson College. He
published one book of sermons, which
was we'll received.
BriIiinnt Soldier.
His career in the army OF the Con-
federate States and his war record are
no less brilliant than his accomplish
mcnts in his profession. At the age OF
twenty-one, while q student at Wash
ngton College. he enlisted in the Con-
tcderatc army as a member of the Lib
erty Hall Volunteers, which took it's
name from the volunteers which Lib
erty Hall Academy, the forerunner of
Washington College, had sent into the
Revolutionary army. This command
became Company ]. Fourth Virginia
Infantry. Stonewall Brigade. and DR..
Strlcklcr soon rose to the rank OF cap
tain. He was commanding this com
pany 1T the close of the war. BY a
peculiar coincidence. he was taken
prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg
In company with Judge John a. Buch-
anan. of the state Supreme Court Of
Appeals. He was wounded three times
during the war.
Givcns Brown Strickler was born at
Strickler Springs, Rock bridge County,
on April %, 1870. the son OF Joseph
and Mary Strickler. He was n student
at Washington and Lee University in
1865, and at the Union TheologicaI
Seminary in 1S6S-1S70. He was or
dained as minister OF the Prcsbv-
tcrian Church in 1870, serving as pas
tor of the Tinkling Spring Prcsbvte-
rian Church, Augusta County, from
1870 to 1883, and then as pastor OF the
Central Presbyterian Church Of A.
lanta. from 1883 to 1896. He accented
the chair OF systematic theology in
Union Seminary In 1896 and occupind
that post with distinction until his
death,