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Andrew StroupBorn- abt 1782 At- Hoyle's Creek, Lincoln County, North Carolina Died- abt 1837 At- Hillsboro, Jefferson County, MO Buried- Unknown
(1) Married- Catherine Caty Link Marriage Date- 19 Feb 1803 Born- abt 1785 Lincoln County, North Carolina Died- Unknown At- Hillsboro, Jefferson, Missouri Buried- Unknown
ORIGINS
Andrew Stroup’s father was Adam (born 1746) and his mother was
Catherine Stroup (born c1750). By
the 1770's, the family lived on Saylor's Branch of upper Hoyle's Cr., between
modern Alexis and High Shoals, (old Lincoln, now Gaston Co.), N.C. where they
owned a large farm, and had three daughters and seven sons. MARRIAGE
On 19 Feb 1803, son Andrew Stroup, aged about 21, purchased a Lincoln
Co., N.C. Marriage Bond to marry Catherine “Katy” Link, his bondsman being
his brother-in-law, Alexander “Spence” Head, who in 1800 had married
Elizabeth Stroup.
THE LINK FAMILY
Catherine was a favorite name among the German Link (Linck) family of
Hoyle's Creek, and Andrew’s bride was surely related in some way to Jacob Link
who had married Catherine Rudisill in Lincoln County in 1789. TWO FORMS OF MARRIAGE
By N. C. law, marriages were performed in the bride's county of
residence, and by custom, in her parent's church.
Most Germans in this area were Lutheran or Baptist.
Since Andrew Stroup purchased a marriage bond and license, the Links were
perhaps German Baptists (Dunkers), because Lutherans here usually married by
publication of the Marriage Banns from the pulpit on several consecutive Sundays
(unless no minister was available).
Banns Marriages were cheaper than by license and bond, but were available
only to Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans, since other Protestants
considering banns marriages "Popish".
About 1807, when Andrew’s brother Peter Stroup married in Lincoln, he
did not purchase a bond, which means his bride was German Lutheran and they
could marry the cheap way, by church banns.
The only records of Lutheran Marriages by Banns Publication were kept in
German in the Parish Registers. (German
parish records for Lincoln County, if still extant, have not been transcribed
and published.) TO
MISSOURI
In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was made, and in 1805 Missouri was added
to the Territory of Louisiana. Two
(possibly three) of Adam and Catherine Stroup’s sons arrived soon after the
Territory was formed. WAGONS WEST
About 1807/09 a wagon train
of Germans from Hoyle's Creek left central N.C., rolled west through Tennessee
to the Mississippi. From lore, it
included the wagons of Peter Stroup, b c1787, and his brother Andrew Stroup,
born c1781, with their wives and one or two babies.
They were on the Mississippi in 1812 when the Louisiana Purchase became
Missouri Territory. About one
fourth of Adam Stroup’s children were there in 1830 when the Territory became
a State. Other Stroups who were
their close cousins followed later from Georgia, Arkansas and Illinois.
However, not all the Stroups in Missouri are descended from the North
Carolina Stroups - (German: Stroope - Strope) family.
Many unrelated Stroups migrated there, descendants of Pa. immigrant
Straub - Stroups.
TWO SETTLEMENTS, HILLSBORO AND VICTORIA
By 1811 Peter Stroup had a
son, John, born in Missouri, probably at Victoria, Jefferson County, where he
lived and died. Andrew and Katy
(Link) Stroup are believed to have settled at Hillsboro, Jefferson County.
Andrew and Katy Stroup were probably the couple that died young in an
epidemic that left four Stroup orphans at Hillsboro.
Two are believed their children, possibly all four. HENRY STROUP TO HILLSBORO, MISSOURI?
Adam and Catherine Stroup of Saylor’s Branch had seven sons, but with
only six have been identified. The
seventh was probably Henry Stroup, b c1780's.
FOUR STROUP ORPHANS OF HILLSBORO
If Adam and Catherine’s 7th son (Henry?) came to Missouri with Andrew
and Peter, and settled at Hillsboro near Andrew, he may have been father to two
of the four young Stroup orphans at Hillsboro.
BETSY STROUP AND HER BROTHERS
The oldest, Betsy, born July 11, 1821 in Missouri, who from one account
was orphaned at four, c1825. In
1838 she married Joseph Reid Gamble. 1850
U.S. Census, Hillsboro, Missouri Joseph R. Gamble had in his home, Thomas
Stroup, age 13, born c1837.
Also in 1850, Hillsboro, listed in the home of Joseph Gamble’s brother
Miner Gamble, was George Stroup, 21, b. c1829.
If Thomas and George were Betsy’s brothers, her parents were alive in
1837, then she was orphaned when nearly grown, not at four, as she stated. OR WERE TWO HER COUSINS?
However, if Thomas and George were sons of a third brother, (Henry?) then
Elizabeth had only one brother, Harmon (Herman?) born c1823, and the other two
orphans, George, b. c1829 and Thomas, b. c1837, were her first cousins.
However, from other lore, Betsy had a brother Thomas If this is correct,
perhaps the parents of all four orphans were Andrew and Katy (Link) Stroup.
[Further research needed.]
GERMAN CHILDREN WERE SELDOM SENT TO SCHOOL
In later life, Betsy was
"embarrassed she was not sent to school and resented that she and her
brothers were used as field hands". The
Gambles sent their children to school, but reputedly did not treat these Stroup
orphans like their own, using them as manual laborers.
However, if Betsy’s German
parents lived, it’s unlikely she would have been sent to public school, it
being a German custom to keep their children at home.
However, they would not have been treated as field hands, but taught
skills to make them successful in life. Adam Stroup, b. 1746, who was surely
Betsy’s grandfather, was apprenticed at age 8 to an iron master and gunsmith.
He did not send any of children to public school, but they were well
trained in other ways at home. APPRENTICED TO LEARN TRADES
Adam apprenticed his eldest
son, Jacob, born 1771, at age 11, to him to learn how to make iron, guns and
gunpowder, to become his partner in these trades. When Jacob was grown, he was a
highly competent iron master, able to construct and operate iron furnaces and
large foundries. Years later, Jacob apprenticed his son Moses to himself at age
11, to learn these trades, making him his business partner by about age 25.
Apprenticing children a trade was German custom, and it made them very
successful in life. Most Germans,
being very practical, considered book “larnin” a waste of time, something
"for the lazy English”. The Germans and the English did not admire each
other.
The clean and hard working Germans looked down on their English
neighbors, and thought English children were “lazy and untrained.” German
girls learned to cook, sew and keep house while little English girls ran and
played or read storybooks. German
boys were warned don't 'marry English', unless you want to live in a dirty house
and starve to death.
1817 WAGON TRAIN TO WAYNE CO. MISSOURI
In 1817 Adam and Catherine’s eldest child, Catherine, born c1769, and
her husband, moved to Missouri in a wagon train of German relatives and
neighbors heading for Wayne County, Missouri.
1817 WAGON TRAIN TO MISSOURI
In 1790 Adam and Catherine
Stroup’s eldest child, Catherine, married Philip Dellinger with a Lincoln
County, N.C. Marriage Bond. They
left Lincoln after Oct. 17, 1817 when he sold 333 acres on Hoyle’s Creek to
their neighbor, Eve Englefinger.
The Philip Dellingers are
thought to have moved to Missouri in a wagon train of Germans that included with
part of their relatives and neighbors. Philip
Dellinger settled in Wayne Co., southeast Missouri, west of Catherine’s
brothers Peter and Andrew Stroup in Jefferson County. Three years later, Philip Dellinger died of disease in Wayne
County, on July 22, 1820. 1823
PETER IN JEFFERSON CO.
Peter Stroup’s unidentified first wife apparently died about 1812,
perhaps in an epidemic. By 1823, he
was a resident of Jefferson Co., probably at "Victoria on the Iron Mountain
R.R.", his home from census and probate records.
1830 CENSUS CAPE GIRARDEAU CO.
The 1830 Federal Census for Cape Girardeau Co.,. Missouri showed Andrew,
Ephraim, Catherine and Lawson Stroup as heads of four separate households
located south of St. Louis but some miles north of Jefferson County, Mo.
None of these Cape Girardeau County Stroups has been identified in N.C.
records, although the Stroups of Hoyle’s Creek used all their given names,
except Lawson.
ANDREW AT HILLSBORO, JEFFERSON?
Although proof is lacking, Andrew and Katy Stroup from North Carolina are
believed to have settled at Hillsboro, Jefferson County.
EARLY EPIDEMICS IN MISSOURI
Andrew and Katy probably died in Hillsboro, Jefferson County in an
epidemic described as a “terrible fever”, perhaps the yellow fever, typhoid
or malaria, all prevalent in the swampy lands along the Mississippi river. LATER EPIDEMICS IN MISSOURI
Two of Adam Stroup’s sons,
Joseph and David moved c1806 and 1815 from Hoyle's Creek central N.C. before
1810 to Buncombe Co., western N.C. where David’s family intermarried with the
Heads.
An 1878 letter from a
Stroup - Head cousin in Wayne Co., Missouri, to his cousin in Buncombe Co.,
N.C., complained how many folks were down sick from “Missouri's bad water and
unhealthy climate”, that me and my children are all down with the fever, and
Sam Stroup (from Buncombe, now in Wayne Co., Mo.) “Has not seen a well day in
his life and his two little boys have chills nearly every day”.
He reported that the local doctor had so many patients that he refused to
attend anyone without guarantee of cash payment, and was prescribing quinine,
from which description Wayne County's 1878 epidemic was malaria.
Perhaps this mosquito borne disease was the earlier, recurrent epidemics
in Missouri's river counties that left these orphaned Stroup children.
The Missouri epidemics were severe enough to cause some of the German
families from Hoyle's Creek to move back home, and their tales helped identify
others who had died or stayed on in Missouri. ANDREW'S ORPHANS
Andrew and Katy Stroup are
believed parents of at least two of four orphans at Hillsboro “raised by
neighboring farmers.”
The (presumed) uncle of these orphans, Peter Stroup, although not a
resident of Hillsboro but of Victoria, might have taken four more children in
his home, but his own wife had died, leaving him with two orphans and the need
to find a new wife to care for them.
A younger Andrew Stroup, born July 16, 1828, was perhaps an orphan at
Victoria. In 1850 he lived in the
home of Peter Stroup’s son John, but probate records prove this younger Andrew
was not son of either Peter nor his son John.
Peter did have one other son
old enough to father this young Andrew of Victoria, Richard Stroup, born c1815,
but in 1851 he lived in Leclede County. However,
if Richard was indeed father of this Andrew, he could have left his boy behind
to help his aging grandparents. It's
unlikely that Andrew (born c1832) of 1850 Victoria was an orphaned son of Andrew
and Katy Stroup, because it was not custom among the German Stroups to name a
son for its father. DUTCH PATRONYMIC NAME SYSTEM
As long as the Stroups had German wives, they usually continued naming
their children by a Patronymic Name System used primarily in Holland and
northwest Germany. Because N.C.
Stroups used this name system, they are believed to be from the Stroope family
of Westphalia, near Holland. In
this system, only an illegitimate son was ever named for the father, “to shame
him for not marrying the mother.”
The early N.C. Stroups were among the few Germans in America, outside the
Hudson Valley, who used this Dutch Patronymic Name System. It does not seem in use elsewhere in Germany or America. THE NAME SYSTEM
The eldest son was named for
the paternal grandfather, second son for the maternal grand grandfather,
subsequent sons alternately for paternal and maternal uncles. The same system
was used for daughters.
Germans, who used “Jr.”,
either had ancestors from deeper in Germany or Switzerland, or had “married
English” and adopted English customs.
However, only eldest sons
were expected to use this Name System, and Andrew and Peter Stroup were younger
sons so may not have felt obligated to follow it.
However, their father, Adam, was an eldest son (an important role in the
German family), and definitely used this Name System, which means Andrew and
Peter were probably named for their uncles.
If Harmon (Herman?) Stroup of Hillsboro was named by this Name System, as
a 2nd son, he was named for his maternal grandfather. If Elizabeth Stroup, eldest daughter, was named by this
system, her full name should be Catherine Elizabeth Stroup, her first name in
honor of her paternal grandmother, Catherine, wife of Adam Stroup b. 1746.
ANDREW STROUP'S CHILDREN
Andrew and Katy (Link) Stroup’s children are believed to have been:
1. Elizabeth “Betsy” Stroup, b 11 July 1821, Mo.; married 1838 Joseph
Reid Gamble of Hillsboro, Jefferson Co.
After the Gambles moved to Red Oak, Montgomery Co., Iowa, she lost
contact with her brothers in Missouri. Betsy
died at age 75 on June 11, 1897, and she was very highly regarded, “almost
revered by her children and grandchildren”.
2. Harmon (Hermon?) Stroup, born c1823, Mo.
In 1850, Harmon Stroup, age 27, farmer, illiterate, head of a household
at Hillsboro, dwelling #45, next door to Joseph R. Gamble.
Harmon was almost certainly brother to Betsy (Stroup) Gamble; nothing
more known. Harmon m. Nancy E., b
c1821, Tenn. Children in their home
at the 1850 census: Henry 3, b. c1847 Mo., Mary Jane 1, b c1849. Nearby, in
Dwelling #46, George Stroup, 21, b. c1829, in home of Miner Gamble.
Two other Hillsboro orphans might have been children of Andrew and Katy
Stroup, unless he had a brother (Henry?) who settled in this same Hillsboro
neighborhood and died here after 1837:
3. George Stroup, b c1829; in 1850, age 21, Hillsboro, in home of Miner
Gamble, brother to Joseph R. Gamble.
4. Thomas Stroup, b c1837; 1850 aged 13, home of Joseph R. and Betsy
(Stroup) Gamble. 1.
Frances Neitzke; descendant of Elizabeth "Betsy" STROUP, b. 11 July
1821, Jefferson Co., Mo., orphaned in an epidemic; researched census records and
lore.
2. Dolly Stroup Waugh; descendant of John Stroup of Victoria; researched
original Missouri records and sent photocopies.
3. Carl E. Stroup; hired Global Research to trace his line from George
Washington Stroup of Jefferson Co., Mo
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