To all you Stroup/Straub researchers: Thanks for your quick reply to my call for help. You have given me some new ideas and places to look. I really appreciate it. In answer to your question about whether James and Peter were actually children of Bernard and Jane... Yes, James M. Stroup, my g grandfather b. 1832 m. Mary Katherine Phillips (6 children) d. 23 Apr 1900 and is buried in Baxter Springs, Cherokee, KA. I have a copy of Bernard's will in which most of the children are named. A few of them are buried in Martinsburg, but James left and moved to Centralia, Marion, IL as a young man. A lot of the Phillips' family still live there and I have been to a few family reunions there. Have been to most of the graves of those I know. It seemed that after James left PA he didn't have much to do with the Stroup family. I'll check out the sources that you gave me. Thanks Garry, Shirley and Diana! Shirley Morton wrote: > Garry, Thanks for the information. I will add that to my folder. I have > another question . This is about Andrew Straub. I just read a message that > Jim Burnell had put on RootsWeb about the will you found for Andrew. Two > years ago, I had done some extensive research on Andrew, founder of > Freeburg, Snyder, PA. While visiting the county offices in Centre, Mifflin, > Perry, Juniata, Union, Nothumberland and Cumberland, I found that Andrew and > his wife, Barbara, had bought and sold many parcels of land from 1809 to > 1847. Andrew had sold many in the years before 1809. In Centre County alone, > there were over 60 parcels sold. I checked on Andrew's signatures and they > all match. Barbara just made her mark. I made copies of some of the deed > transactions, but there were just too many to make copies of all of them. I > did copy the reference numbers on most of the ones in Centre County. But I > ran out of time to do more.According toGeorge Franklin Dunkelberger in The > Story of Snyder County, page 134, he states that Andrew died while living in > the old stone house on Paul Kuster's farm which is a few miles west of > Selinsgrove in Penn Township. My question to you is: where did you find > Andrew's will? Is his signature a match with the deed for the one on > Freeburg lots which he donated? > I have not done much research in the last year because of health problems. > But my health is much better now. Shiley Straub Morton > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Garry Heagy" <gheagy@sgci.com> > To: <STRAUB-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 8:05 AM > Subject: Re: [STRAUB-L] Bernard STROUP > > > Bernhard and Caritas Straub lived in the vicinity of St. Paul's Blue > Church, > > Upper Saucon Twp, Lehigh County, PA around 1760. They had the following > > children baptised there: > > > > Johannes b abt 1756 > > Catharine b. abt 1760 > > Georg b. September 3, 1757 > > > > > > ============================== > > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > > your heritage! > > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237