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Christopher StroupBorn- 7 JUL 1810 Died- 21 OCT 1875 Buried- Mt. Zion Cemetery Married- Elizabeth Betty Hallman Marriage Date- 20 DEC 1836 Born-18 Oct 1818 Died- 25 Oct 1881 Buried- Mt. Zion Cemetery
"Christy" was a child when his parents moved a few miles southwest of Lincolnton to a farm in Cherryville Township (now Cleveland County). He was fifteen when his father died, after which he and his older brother Matthew, ran the farm with the help of their mother and siblings. On December 20, 1836, when "Christy" was twenty-six, he and "Mathey" traveled to Lincolnton to the County Courthouse to get a marriage bond and license for his marriage to Elizabeth "Betty" Hallman, with Matthew bond surety. "Christy" Stroup was a farmer and blacksmith whose farm was in the country near Cherryville, where he and his family were liked and respected, remembered as friendly, good natured people who were ambitious and hard working. In 1840, Christopher Stroup was a Lincoln County Justice of the Peace. In 1846, Gaston County was formed, and the new county included the Cherryville area of old Lincoln County. The 1860 Gaston County census listed Christopher Stroup's household at Craigsville Post Office, and his sister "Lithy" was living with them. A letter written in the 1850's by his cousin Alfred Head of Alexis, after a visit with him, said Christopher had taken him to a Baptist revival meeting. Another account says that "Christopher Stroup's neighbors were at his place for a barn raising when his house burned down but never said a word to anybody." (If true, he was a man of unusual patience, restraint and good nature, for not wishing to spoil the party that followed the work of barn raising).---Christopher Stroup died at age sixty-five on Nov 21, 1875, and was buried in the cemetery at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, where they were church members. Elizabeth (Hallman) Stroup lived until Oct 25, 1881 and is buried beside him. From notes of Ethel Belle Stroupe
1860 Cherryville Census
1870 Cherryville Census
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