Posted on: STROUP Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/s/t/STROUP/queries/31 Surname: Stroup ------------------------- Hello My name is Jackie Storay Shaw. I have been researching this family for the past year. Just recently I obtained copies of Ethel Bell Stroup’s research papers, dated, May 20,1981, concerning the Stroup family. Rick Turner from Greenville, South Carolina shared these with me. So by now her papers are 20 years old, but I am very impressed with the work Mrs. Stroup has done. She states she has researched the Stroup family for some 50 years. I am posting this information and I certainty hope Ethel Bell Stroup or her family does not object. My only intent is to help anyone else searching this particular Stroup family, and possible by doing so, this information will open doors to the past and help establish more family connection. My family link is Solomon Stroup the son of Adam Stroup, the son of Jacob Stroup the son of Adam Stroope, the son of Matthias Stroope. Ethel Bell Stroup establishes this connection in her notes. Also, she gives a list of the children of Solomon Stroup and Nancy Haskins. I already had the list of children from Joseph P. Stroup and Lucy Ann Faulkner Stroup, from census records of 1850, 1860, and 1870, from NC. Although, Ethel Bell Stroup’s notes, has more personal information concerning, the children of Joseph P. and Lucy Ann Stroup. Solomon Stroup was born 1788 in Hoyle’s Creek, Old Lincoln Co., North Carolina, and died 1871 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. He married Mary Lowre in March of 1810. Solomon married his second wife Nancy Haskins May 03, 1816 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Nancy was born May 30, 1799, and died March 03, 1879 in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina at the home of her son D.C. Stroup. Children of Solomon and Nancy Stroup 1. Joseph P. Stroup born, 1818, Lincoln Co., NC married Lucy Ann Faulkner 1838. Joseph P. Stroup’s father Solomon moved in the 1830’s from Lincoln County to western North Carolina, Buncombe County, where Solomon was a large land owner at Rock House Creek and Bull Creek, Buncombe County. Solomon moved back to Lincoln with most of his children, but his son Joseph P. Stroup stayed in Buncombe County with his wife Lucy Ann Faulkner Stroup and their children. Joseph died somewhere between 1856 and 1859. Joseph’s widow Lucy Ann stayed behind, on this land that Solomon owned at Bull Creek, Riceville Township, north of Asheville. Solomon willed this land in the 1877 will to his son Andrew J. Stroup, noting that his daughter–in–law, Lucy Ann, was living there with her children and this establishes the connection to this family. ? There is possibly other unknown children between Joseph and Elizabeth 2. Elizabeth Stroup born, 1828. She was in the 1850 census, living in Vestal’s Ford Gaston Co., NC, Elizabeth was 22 years old and also listed in her father’s will of 1868 which, I do not have a copy of. This information comes from notes of Ethel Bell Stroup. 3. Andrew J. or “A.J.” Stroup, born 1829. He is living with parents in the 1850 census. He married Martha Ann Byrd on Nov. 6, 1858. 4. Susanna “ Susan” Stroup born1833. Susan married her cousin Bartlett Stroup and is buried in the graveyard across the road in the woods, from Bartlett Stroup’s farm. 5. David Choosey “D.C.” Stroup born 1836. He was a Confederate Soldier. In the 1860 census, he was in the parent’s home. Married Amanda J. “Mandy”. In 1900, Andrew was 64 years old living in Morganton Township, Burke Co., N.C. 6. Nancy Stroup born 1839, and she was living in the family home in the 1850 census, and also was in her father’s will. 7. Mira Stroup born 1842. Also in the home of parents in the 1850 census. 8. Mary C. Stroup born 1848. She was also in the family home in the 1850 census. Also in the 1868 will of her father she received 1 horse, 1 colt, and 3 head of cattle. Mary was living with a brother in the 1870 census. Children of Joseph Stroup and Lucy Ann Faulkner. 1. Solomon Luther Stroup born 1838 in Georgia, and he married Sara Towe born 1859 in Buncombe Co., N.C. Solomon was 11 years old in the 1850 census living with his parents in Lincoln Co., N.C. In 1859 Luther Solomon was 21 years old and moved to Tenn. Then in Nov. 1869 Solomon moved to Ark. After the death of his father, Joseph P. Stroup. Solomon Luther Stroup died 1879, in Otter, Saline Township, Saline Co, Ark. Ethel Bell Stroup refers to a Lorna La Faye as being the gg-granddaughter of Solomon Luther Stroup and also she uses her as a resource for this family. Also I have found a Phil McCort who is also connected. He is trying to find if there is an Indian connection, to this family by researching the wife’s of the Stroup men. He said, his grandmother had told him, this family had Indian blood. He seems to think the Indian connection may be with Sara Towe Solomon Luther’s wife. Solomon Luther and Sara Towe Stroup’s children: (information from WFT**45) (a) Mary Stroup born about 1860. (b) Joseph Henry Stroup born about 1861. (c) Samuel Stroup born about 1866. (d) Rachel Stroup born about 1869. (e) Ellen Stroup born about 1874. (f) Martha Stroup born about 1876 (g) Sara Stroup born about 1879 2. Moses S. Stroup born 1839 in Georgia. Moses was listed in the 1850 census, he is 9 years old and living in the home of his parents. Married by 1880. In the 1900 census of Marshall Township he is listed with 3 children. 3. Alfred Stroup born 1842. Also in the 1850 census as 8 years old in the home of his parents. 4. John Marshall Stroup born 1844 at Marshall Township, Madison, N.C. In the 1850 census, John Marshall is listed a Marshall age 6. The 1860 census, he is listed as John. Ethel Bell Stroup believed Marshall and John to be the same person, John Marshall. From the notes of Mrs. Stroup. This family may have lived a while at Marshall, NC. A little town in the mountains as they had a son apparently named John Marshall Stroup, born 1844-45. He is called John M. in one record and Marshall in another, but looks like the same son. Also Joseph P. and Lucy Ann had a son, Moses S., who in 1900 lived in Marshall, NC. A little mill town on a fast, flowing river, with mountains so steep on all sides the sun hardly shines except at noon. Marshall Stroup also is believed to have worked in a forge, Elizabethton, Carter Co., Tenn. 5. Nancy Stroup born 1846, is listed in the 1850 census, as 4 years old living with parents. In the 1860 census, Nancy is listed as 14 years old. 6. Samuel Stroup born 1848 is also listed in the 1850 census as being 2 years old. The 1860 census list him as 12 years old and living with parents in Buncombe Co., Swannano, NC. 7. ? Lucy Stroup born 1847. Not listed by name in the 1850 or 1860 census. A Lucy Stroup is listed in the 1870 census as being 23 years old living in the house hold of Lucy Ann Stroup, Joseph P. Stroup’s, widow. She is listed as 51 years old. This child may or maynot belong to Lucy Ann and Joseph P. Stroup. The 1870 census is the only census she appears in. Maybe she was a daughter in law. 8. Samuel Stroup born 1848. He is 2 years old in the 1850 census. Samuel is listed as 12 years old in the 1860 census. In the notes of Ethel Bell Stroup by 1880 Samuel was in Otter, Saline CO, Ark. With 3 sons and no wife. A Thomas Stroup, 60 years old was also in this home, listed as the father. 9. Martha Ann Stroup born February 20,1850. She is listed in the 1850 census as 6 months old. The 1860 census as 9 years old. The 1870 census as 19 years old and also her daughter, Hester Mae Stroup appears in this 1870 census as 6 months old. Although this census does not list Hester, as the daughter of Martha. I know this information from personal knowledge, Bible records, and other family members; Hester Mae is the daughter of Martha Gilliam. I do not know who the father of Hester Mae was. The 1880 census list, as head of house, Lucy A. Stroup 62 years old. Martha A. Stroup 30 years old and Hester M. Stroup as 10 years old. The family had moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina in this census. Martha married James Gillham around 1880. I do not have the 1890 census from this family. The 1900 Census list James Gillham married to Martha Stroup. Hester Mae Stroup Storay 30 years old, as the stepdaughter of James Gillham. Also listed are the children of Hester Mae Storay . The only child of Martha Stroup and the stepdaughter of James Gillham. (a) Hester Mae Stroup born May 18, 1870 in Buncombe Co. NC. She died, December 07, 1956. Married Manning Andrew Story about 1892. Manning Andrew Story abandons his family and went to Tenn. And started another family. The children of Hester Mae Stroup and Manning A. Story. (a.1) Joseph Edward Storay (a.2) Lucy Ann Stroray (a.3) William Hugh Storay, (the grandfather of Jackie Storay Shaw) (a.4) Gertrude Hellen Storay (a.5) Dolly Mabell Storay 10. Thomas Wade “Earl” Stroup was born September 25,1853 in Greenville S.C., and died November 12, 1918. He married Lucinda Curry December 19,1872 in Sandy Flats Post Office, Greenville Co, SC. She was born June 23, 1855 in Greenville SC and died February 24, 1948 in Greenville SC. Children of Thomas Earl Stroup and Lucinda Curry (a) John B. Stroup (b) Oscar Ellison Stroup (c) L.C. Stroup (d) Wisley Earl Stroup (e) Sallie A.E. Stroup (f) J.H. Stroup (g) Lucy Ellen Stroup, this is where Rick Turner connects to the family. (h) A. M. Stroup (i) Lilla Jane Stroup (j) William Ellison Stroup 11. Mary Stroup was born in 1856. Mary is in the 1860 census as 4 years old. Also, Mary is in the 1870 census as 14 years old. Appears in the 1880 census as 22years old. The family is living in Spartainburg, South Carolina. Lucy Ann Stroup is still alive and listed as 62 years old in this census. Also noted in the 1880 census is a child named Etta, 1 year old. She maybe the daughter of Mary. 12. I hope by posting this family information someone may connect to this family.