Rockwell Kent, Child Under Tree, Virginia, The Virginia Historical Society~
First Angle Family to Settle In Virginia
Peter I. Angle 1754-1821
Elizabeth Miller 1758-1827
Peter I. Angle was born either in Germany or in Franklin County, Virginia on April 22, 1754. There are very few records but some believe that Peter and his two brothers came to America as young men—probably from what is now known as the Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) – and settled in Franklin County, Virginia - his brothers settling in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Records show his wife, Elizabeth Jane Miller, as born in Germany on March 4, 1758. She may have met Peter on the boat they took to America in 1774 if indeed he immigrated then. They may have married in 1774 because the first of their eight children was born in 1775.
Peter died in February 25, 1821. Elizabeth died April 18, 1827. 
They are buried in the Angle family cemetery—set in the rolling farmland near the still active Angle farm in Wirtz, Franklin County, Virginia. The farm land has been in the Angle family since Peter Angle claimed the 153 acres when discharged in 1782 from his service in the Revolutionary War. One record shows Peter Angle as an officer for Franklin County. The above painting is included to help us imagine what it might have been like for Peter and Elizabeth as they raised their family during the last quarter of the18th century.
Rockwell Kent, Child Under Tree, 
They are buried in the Angle family cemetery—set in the rolling farmland near the still active Angle farm in Wirtz, 
