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John I. Stickle & Hannah Fraleigh
John Born 1774 Died 1871
Hannah Born 1776 Died 1850
St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Village of Red Hook. Marble tablet with shield and drapery with tassels at the corner of the middle access road and parking lot road.
“The old cemetery in Red Hook village in which lies the dust of so many of the aged, contains no lifeless form that will be longer remembered than that of the late venerable John I. Stickle.”
John was born in Red Hook under English rule in 1774. His parents, Johannes Stickle and Elisabeth Böhm (who are also buried in this cemetery) baptized him as “Johannes” in the predecessor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, the German Reformed Church. His father served in the Revolutionary War and his grandfather Stephan Stickle arrived in this country with the Palatine immigration of 1710.
Stickle obituary, Red Hook Journal, 22 Dec 1871. Part 1
John married Hannah Fraleigh, daughter of Petrus Fraleigh and Elizabeth Feller (also of Palatine descent), before 1795. After she died in 1850, John filed his will in Dutchess County, leaving his personal and real estate to his son Peter I. Stickle, and $25 each to three sons-in-law, daughter Hannah’s husband Zachariah D. Feller, Elizabeth’s husband Philip Allendorf, and Catherine’s husband Peter D. Feller (all of whom are also buried in this cemetery).
When the 1870 census was taken the newspaper reported that of the 4,380 inhabitants of the Town of Red Hook, John I. Stickle was the second oldest (right behind Peter Henry, 98). John died at 97 years, 9 months, and 12 days in 1871, “protected far beyond the ordinary term of human life”, outliving his wife, three children, three grandchildren, and twelve great grandchildren. However, he was survived by one child, twenty-one grandchildren, twenty-nine great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren!
“Mr. Stickle’s was in the main, a cheerful, happy life. His strictly temperate–indeed christian habits–combined with a naturally strong, vigorous constitution, fully account for his long life.”
Stickle obituary, Red Hook Journal, 22 Dec 1871. Part 2