Jonas Stroup

Born- abt 1800

At- Hoyles Creek, Lincoln County, North Carolina

Died- 20 Jul 1853 

At- South Point Township, Gaston County, North Carolina

Buried- Lutheran Chapel Church Cemetery

(1) Married- Rebecca Cloninger

Marriage Date- 25 Nov 1821 

Born- abt 1800 Lincoln County, North Carolina

Died- Unknown

Buried- Unknown

Marriage Bond 1821

ORIGIN

Jonas Stroup was born in 1796 or 1800, son of Philip Stroup, Sr. and his first wife Mary “Molly” Eddleman. (1) His full name was probably Johannes Jonas Stroup, it being German custom for people to be called by their middle names. 

MARRIAGE

            Jonas married Rebeckah Cloninger with a Lincoln County Marriage Bond dated 25 Nov 1821, Bond Surety, and the bride's brother, Moses Cloninger. (2)

THE CLONINGERS

                 Rebeckah Cloninger was born c1802, daughter of Elizabeth (Lizzie) Cloninger  (daughter of Adam Cloninger,  (1)  The old family explanation for Elizabeth’s  lack of a husband was that "Lizzie eloped with a German Catholic, but her Lutheran family refused to recognize the marriage for religious reasons, so she eventually left him and raised her children, Moses and Rebecca, as Cloningers". (3) Modern researchers say this is incorrect, and believe the father of her child was one of their Rhyne neighbors.  Since there were other Rhyne - Stroup marriages, he was probably not free to marry her, although theirs was more than a passing fancy shown by her having two children by him. 

1848 HOME PLACE

            The 1848 Gaston Co. Tax List showed Jonas Stroup as head of a household at Duhart's Creek, in the vicinity of Gastonia.

JONAS WILL

            In late July 1853 when Jonas was 57 years old, he perhaps ill with the typhoid fever that was so prevalent in the area at this time because he drew his will and died on the same day.  The October court probated it.

            He named his wife Rebecca, sons Johnnie, Maxary A., Rufus, Wesley, Cephas, and his daughters “who are unmarried and living with me”, Lodoesco, Mary Rebecca, Frances C., Nancy Connally and Dorcas L., and his daughters Elizabeth and Caroline, "both married".

            Will executors were his sons Johannan and Maxary A. Stroup.  Witnesses, Wm. Dickson and J. M. Hanna.  (4)

 DEATH

            Jonas Stroup died 30 July 1853, and was buried in the cemetery of Christ Lutheran Church at Stanley, N.C. (1)

JONAS STROUP'S CHILDREN

             1. Rufus Stroup (c1825 - d 1861/64 C.S.A.) married Rebecca ---.   1848 Gaston Tax List, head of household, Duhart's Creek; 1860 census, lived Chestnut Oak Township, Gaston Co.

         2. Johanan “Johnnie” (Ger Johannes) Stroup c1828 was in his father's home in 1850 federal census for Gaston County.  He married April 30, 1857 Mary Elizabeth Rhyne in Gaston County, daughter of Jonathan Rhyne.

1860 federal census, Chestnut Oak, Gaston county: Johanan Stroup, 32, b c1828, $1,200 real property & $549 personal property; wife Mary 25, c1835; daughter Louisa 2, 1858, son Ambrose, born about Apr 1860, 3/12 on 17 July 1860. Johanan died in the C.S.A. during the Civil War.  His widow married 2nd John Bell.  (Our Kin, p 23/4, 162.)

                 3. Maxary (aka Maxwell & Maxey) A. Stroup, b. c1827; m. c1857 M. Emily Hoffman, d/o Levi Hoffman & Rebecca Rhyne. 1860 census, Chestnut Oak Twp, Gaston Co: age 33, $300 Real Property, $1140 Personal Property, wife Emily 22; children: Julia c1858, Martin Luther Stroup c1859.

             Census records showed Max Stroup lived near his brothers Johanan 32 & Rufus 35, Chestnut Oak, Gaston.  "Maxwell Stroup survived much service in the Confederate Army." (Our Kin, p 31, 162).

             Stone, Chapel Lutheran Church cemetery: Jonas B. Stroup, b 17 Oct 1860, s/o Maxwell  & M. E.

             4. Maxina Stroup, b c1827, perhaps twin to Maxwell; 1850 census:  22 in father's home.

            5. Wesley W. Stroup. (23 July 1830, d. after 1900), married Mary Roxanna Rhyne 25 Apr 1859, Gaston C.H. record; 1900 census: Lowell, South Point Twp, Gaston Co. (Our Kin p 137); tombstone: "A Loyal Soldier of the Confederate Army".

            6. Cephas (Josephus) Stroup (9 Feb 1832, 13 Jan 1916); married Oct 22, 1857 by J. R. Peterson to Josephine Elizabeth Hanks, Gaston C.H. record, d/o Ezekiel Hanks  & Anna Maria Costner (Desc. of Peter Heyl, p 529).  C.S.A 1862-1865. Tombstone: "Member Chapel Lutheran Church 50 Yrs".

                         Children: 1. Laura Catherine Stroup b 1858,

                                        2. Rosel Saloam Stroup b 1861,

                                        3. Abel Cephas Stroup b. 1862,

                                        4. Margaret Ann Elmira Stroup b. 1866;

                                        5. Jonas Laban Stroup, b. 1870,

   11. Dorcas L. Stroup, b c1844; married 17 Oct 1866, John C. Hoffman, s/o Levi Hoffman & Rebecca Rhyne Gaston Co. C.H.  (Our Kin, p 31,p.162)

12. Nancy Connelly Stroup.

                                       13. Carolina (Caroline) Stroup, b c1846; married Elias Anders. (Our Kin, p 162); "Carline" Stroup, Lincoln Marriage Bond dated 14 Dec 1846, sureties Elias M. Anders and William R. Holland.

 END NOTES

            1. Family records from Cephas grandson, Chauncey Depew Stroup, Sr. (1893-1970) of Lincolnton, N.C., s/o Jonas Laban Stroup & Minnie Ada Putnam. Sent 1950-1970 to Ethel Belle Stroupe (maiden name; then Mrs. John Vochko).

            2. Curtis Bynum, Marriage Bonds of Lincoln & Tryon Counties, N.C., 1929.

            3. Gaston Co. Will Abstracts, Vol. 1, p 47.

            4. Laban Hoffman, Our Kin, publ. Gastonia, 1915.

            5. Descendants of Pieter Heyl.

            6. Nard Cloninger, Greenville, S.C.,

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