The Lancaster Intelligencer: Wed. 6 Apr. 1870: Page 3 OBITUARY.-We regret to announce the death of the venerable and Rev. J. J. STRINE, of the Lutheran Church, so long and so well, and so favorably known, not only to our own immediate community, but to the people of the entire county. He died of heart disease at his residence in Centre Square, this city, on Monday afternoon about 5 o'clock. He had been in his usual good health, until the last few days when having contracted a cold, he was confined to the house. Just before his death, he was sitting in his chair, and said to his wife "I feel considerable pain about my chest," and so saying laid his head against the back of the chair and died without a struggle or a groan. Mr. STRINE was in his 78th year, and had been in the Christian Ministry 55 years, having studied theology in Reading, with the distinguished Rev. Dr. G. H. E. Muhlenberg, then Pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church. He preached altogether in the German language, and has had charge of congregations in Elizabethtown, Strasburg, Millersville, Rohrerstown, Conestoga Centre, Washington Borough, Safe Harbor, and other parts of the county. He was universally beloved for his kindness of heart, and for his forbearing, forgiving, and conciliatory manners. He rarely, if ever, entered into contentions and bickerings that too often mark the course of public men. "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife His sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the calm sequestered vale of life He kept the even tenor of his way." At the time of his death, he was, with one exception, the oldest minister in the Eastern Synod of Pennsylvania. During his ministry he has united in marriage about five thousand couples; has baptized over one thousand persons, and has officiated at about one thousand funerals-- in several instances having married and buried the grandparents, parents and children of the same families. He will be buried Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. ------------- [I for one am grateful for the records Rev. Strine kept of marriages he performed. Does anyone on this list know if baptismal or burial records maintained by Rev. Strine still exist, and if so, where?]