Jean, which were your Waldrups? I have in my database an M Washington Waldrop (b 30 Sep 1862, d 35 Dec 1950), m in Dec 1867 Lula Lindsey (b 28 Dec 1869 Claiborne, Jasper Co. MS, d 14 Oct 1937 Gadsden AL). Their children were William Lindsey Waldrup (m Minnie Nichols) and Ray Waldrup (m Clara Covington) Lula's parents were from Newbury Dist. SC and Rochy Mount, Nash Co. NC. I also have Waldrops in the Carolinas and Alabama, who were related to my Lindseys. Also, Waldrips in Mississippi, who were related (by marriage) to my Turnages. Thomas Benton Waldrip m Nancy Hurley Wooten, Thomas Benton Waldrip Jr. m Jessie Quinona Turnage, a sister of my grandmother Emma Clifton Turnage. Their children were Lora Oclis Waldrip (m Edward Harris, then George Samuel Taylor), Ralph Turnage Waldrip (m Edith Corine Letson), Emma Hurley Waldrip (m Edward Trimm) and Thomas Benton Waldrip (m Hazel Lucile Clark). I suspect that Waldrup, Waldrop and Waldrip are all really the same name, that just got spelled different ways. Probably each of these families spelled it, or had a recorder spell it, in more than one way over time. Margaret Lindsey Smith