From Forerunners: A History or Genealogy of the Strickler Families Their Kith and Kin, by Harry M. Strickler (Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1925), pp. 73-74:

Samuel Strickler lived opposite horseshoe bend on Smith's Creek near New Market, Va. This farm was later known as the J. B. Strayer farm. The old Samuel Strickler house still stands. Samuel Strickler and John Gatewood represented Shenandoah County in teh Virginia Legislature in 1807

THE OLD HOME

Samuel Strickler's old home is still standing (1917) in a good state of preservation about a mile north-east of New Market on the left bank of Smith Creek, opposite Horseshoe Bend, where his brothers Joseph and David lived. The house is built of logs and has eight large rooms, four on the first and for on the second floor, also two large rooms in the attic which has a high steep roof, and two larg rooms in the basement where there is a large fireplace. A large chimney, at least eight feet square, occupies the centre of the house. Board partitions, composed of very wide boards, extend from the chimney to the outer walls, thereby affording access to the chimney from every room for the purpose of heating by fireplaces. All partitions have doors making the entire house communicating. The basement is built bery strong and has narrow openings or loopholes. There is a peculiar double floor between the basement and the first floor with some sort of material between the two.

The house is built very much like the Jacob Strickler house in Egypt except that it is not quite so large and has no vaulted cellar. It is slightly longer than wide with a porch on the south and east. A little to the north of the house is a spring.

To the east of the house, several hundred yards, in a clump of bushes and trees, where the ground rises from the bottom land, is an old graveyard. Here Samuel was likely buried but I could find no stone. At the barn was a stone, apparently a grave stone, with "C. M. S." and a date which I could not make out upon it.

Dr. J. B. Strayer, a member of the legislature at one time, owned this home afterwards. The main fighting at the battle of New Market was about a mile west of his home.