There is a series of books called "The Foxfire Books" which contain a collection of interviews conducted by high school students with older Appachinan folk in an effort to preserve the culture and heritage of the people and their times. The interviews were done in northwestern Ga and southwestern NC in the1960s and 1970s. In Vol. 8, ISBN 0-385-17741-0, p. 90, are the recollections of Mrs. Arlie Waldrop (b. 1897 in Macon Co., NC) who mentions Waldrops named Eli Rufus, Jake, Joab Moore, Black Bill, Ned and Eli. These are decendants of James Waldroop of Wake Co., NC. Mrs. Waldrop claimed that Black Bill was dark "complected" and that the family claimed he was a mixture of a Negro slave and a white. A Black Dutch. Whether or not this was true cannot be proven, but apparently the rest of the family was not of the same coloring. Mrs Meadows goes on to say her Waldrops came from Ireland. Both of these statements are her observations, and are not necessarily fact.