The Zirkle Reunion

The Shenendoah Valley says:

On Thursday, August 10, 1893, the Zirkles and their connections and friends, to whom a most cordial invitation had been extended, held a Family Reunion and General Picnic in Miss Nannie Quick’s woods, one mile west of Quicksburg, Va.

Preparations were made on a grand scale, in anticipation of the coming together of a vast concourse of people, and in nowise was the committee disappointed.

At an early hour people began to pour in from all directions, in carriages and wagons, horse and “foot-back,” and free hacks ran back and forth from the railroad station to the grounds, conveying many from the trains.

Brass bands from Hamburg and Cabin Hill, and a string band from New Market with an organ, furnished music, to add to the interest of the occasion, and all went “merry as a marriage bell.”

There were over 2000 persons present, about one-half of whom were Zirkles, their relatives and connections.

Speeches were made by Prof. J. Milton Zirkle, Dr. F. E. Rice, and Mr. Elon O. Henkel; and historical sketches of the different branches of the Zirkle family were read, together with several poems composed for the occasion.