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Joseph StroupBorn-21 May 1776 At- Hoyle's Creek, Lincoln County, North Carolina Died- 13 Oct 1851 At- Bull Creek, Buncombe, North Carolina Buried- cemetery of Stroup's Chapel
(1) Married- Catherine Creasman Marriage Date- 14 September 1798 Born- 25 January 1777 Died- 1864 At- Bull Creek, Buncombe, North Carolina Buried- cemetery of Stroup's Chapel beside Joseph
Joseph Stroup was born May 2, 1776, son of Adam and
Catherine (Creasman) Stroup and grandson of Jacob Stroup (born 1724) by his
first wife, Catherine (Frensch?). MOVE
SOUTH TO LINCOLN CO., N.C.
The little family had traveled south by horse and wagon, and
lived out of it while Adam built his first house. Joseph was apparently born in
1776 in this cabin on Leeper’s Creek, and was about two when his father sold
it.
By 1787 Joseph’s family had moved to Saylor’s Branch of upper Hoyle's
Creek to a large, two story clapboard house that was probably built about the
1750's by Joseph Eakert, who was Jacob Stroup’s son-in-law, and who sold this
farm to Jacob before moving to S.C.
Jacob Stroup Sr. then sold it to his eldest son Adam by a deed describing
it as being "at the boiling spring" (later called “The Old Stroup
Spring”). Adam’s new farm with this fine spring lay across Saylor’s
Branch, northwest of the farm owned by his father Jacob Sr., But separated from
it by the creek.
Both of these old Stroup home places were large, prosperous farms, and
both farm houses that had with large stands of oak trees shading the houses in a
rural community between (modern) Alexis and High Shoals, modern Gaston County. FAMILY LIFE
Joseph Stroup "was one of seven brothers", the other six being
Jacob (born in 1771 And
named for their grandfather), John, Andrew, David, Peter and Solomon. They had
two sisters, Elizabeth and Catherine. These
nine children undoubtedly carried endless buckets of water from "the Old
Stroup Spring" to supply the needs of a household of eleven.
Southeast and across a small creek from their home place was the farm of
Joseph’s grandfather Jacob Sr. who was raising a third family by his young
third wife, Nancy Rhyne. As a result, Joe had half-uncles who were his age and several
uncles who were younger. REVOLUTIONARY
WAR
In the summer of 1780 four-year-old Joseph watched as his father Adam,
grandfather Jacob Sr. and Uncle Peter shouldered homemade rifles and headed off
down the creek to fight the British.
When his father returned, he said he had been in a great battle at
Camden, S.C., where the British had cut down the Americans with bayonets and
captured thousands. Adam had escaped but his father and brother were captured,
but they eventually escaped and also made their way home to Hoyle's Creek.
CORNWALLIS
In the winter of 1780 Lord Cornwallis and his British redcoats marched
through the Stroup's home area. These
detested "lobster backs" banged their drums and “tootled” their
fifes along the Main Road to Lincolnton that ran by Joe's grandfather's farm.
Most of these British foot soldiers had been recruited from London's
slums and their officers were mostly low class, and so their behavior was crude,
arrogant and cruel toward the colonials. Lord
Cornwallis camped at Killian's Creek in the home of their friends, the Jacob
Forney’s, and almost destroyed the place.
After they were gone, the German community rescued the elderly couple,
rebuilt the destruction and replenished stolen supplies. Adam
apparently grew up listened to fireside tales of British atrocities, such how
their elderly Forney neighbors were locked in their own cellar in midwinter
while Cornwallis slept in their featherbed, and how his drunken officers had
bayoneted the Forney's prize mare in his barn.
The German community, previously neutral, was appalled by the coarse
behavior of the British, and many became Whig patriots.
Perhaps little Joe was upset by this childhood experience because he
"hated the British and refused to speak English". FELL OUT OVER
LAND
Although Joseph knew his grandfather well, when he was about fourteen,
his father and grandfather "fell out over land and never spoke to each
other again" so visits to his grandfather's home stopped in 1790. LIFE AT
HOYLE'S CREEK
Growing up on Adam’s large farm of approximately 800 to 1,000 acres,
the seven Stroup boys learned to shoe horses, tend livestock and do carpentry.
Like all farm boys, Adam Stroup’s sons also hunted, fished and climbed
the trees in their father’s excellent orchard (its apple and pear trees can
still be seen). This Revolutionary
era Stroup farm was self-sufficient although they undoubtedly bartered with a
neighbor, Christian Rheinhard, for high-topped shoes from his tannery. GERMAN
LANGUAGE
Young Joseph Stroup was not sent to school probably because the
schoolmaster joined the army and never returned.
The language of both of these old Stroup home places was German, and
Joseph, although he was a 5th generation American, "refused to speak
English throughout his life and made his wife translate for him". However,
speaking German was apparently a point of pride to Joseph because as a fifth
generation American he can hardly have been completely ignorant of the English
language. Also, his brother Jacob,
five years his senior, spoke and wrote in English while their younger brother
David, who lived near Joe at Bull Creek, spoke English and sat on Buncombe
County juries. So, Joe clung to "the old ways" by choice. NEW YEARS,
GERMAN STYLE
The Stroups often led the South Fork community's New Years
celebration, carrying on the "old country" custom of "shooting
out the old year and shooting in the new". On New Year's Eve, the men gathered at sundown, then made the
rounds of the entire German settlement, chanting a New Year's greeting at each
home and firing a musket volley every hour on the hour from sundown to sunup. On
New Year's, The English ate black eyed peas and greens "for luck", but
the old Germans believed "what you eat New Years you will eat all
year", and so they feasted on baked ham, fried chicken, pickled peaches,
hot potato salad, sauerkraut, cheese, pickled beets, rye bread, hot mustard,
fresh churned butter, apple pan dowdies, molasses "funeral" pies,
washed down with apple cider, apple jack, beer, ale along with wines and
cordials made from blackberries, dandelions and cherries. IRON MAKING
Another part of the training received by young Joseph and his older
brother Jacob Jr. from their father was in the iron maker's trade: how to strip
mine coal, lime and iron ore, how to smelt ore and how to mold, hammer and shape
pig iron into farm tools and machine parts.
The Stroups lived near Iron Station, and also near a small, old style
Catalan forge at High Shoals, because both Joe and his brother Jacob knew how to
cast molten iron into saleable wares: nails, kettles, three legged pots, pot
hooks, scissors, knives, cabbage choppers, hoes, rakes, wagon gear, harrows and
gun parts. HIS BROTHER’S MARRIAGES When
Joseph Stroup was fourteen, in August 1790, he went with his family to the
wedding of his nineteen year old brother Jacob Jr. Whose bride was teenaged Betsy Dellinger, daughter of Henry
Dellinger, a member of the Lutheran Church, and a widower with only three
children, and the wealthy owner of a famous old tavern.
Therefore, young Betsy Dellinger’s marriage was undoubtedly
held in the local Evangelical Lutheran Church, followed by a wedding feast in
Henry Dellinger’s home, Dellinger's Tavern, where the ale, rum and Holland’s
gin flowed freely from the barrels in her father’s stone-lined cellar.
The German community at Hoyle’s Creek had also held a house and “barn
raising” for the newlyweds who settled on part of the land owned by the
groom’s father, Adam Stroup.
In 1796 Joseph and
Jacob’s brother John Stroup married Barbara Master, and this young couple also
settled in a cabin built on part of father Adam’s land. CATHERINE
CREASMAN About
1797, twenty-two year old Joseph Stroup met and courted twenty-one year old
Catherine Creasman, born Jan. 25, 1777, daughter of Adam Crisman (German:
Christmann) and Jane Reel (German: Rhiel).
The Crismans were recent arrivals in Lincoln County originally from the
upper Potomac River in old Hampshire (now Morgan) Co., Va.)
The Reel and Creasman families were German Dunkers, and young Catherine
was the granddaughter of German immigrant Philip Christman who had arrived as a
young man in 1735. However, young Catherine, born in America, spoke both German
and English.
On Sept. 14, 1798 Joseph Stroup went to the Lincolnton courthouse with
Daniel Reel (who was probably Catherine's brother or cousin), and obtained a
Lincoln County Marriage Bond and License with Daniel Reel as Bond Surety.
Joseph and Catherine were married a few days later, probably in a Dunker
ceremony held in the Adam Creasman home. The
newlyweds moved into a cabin on another tract of his father's land, probably the
one on Threshing Flour Creek where it's believed Joe ran his father's mill.
In 1799, their first child, Elizabeth, was born here at Hoyle's Creek. DUNKERS ON
CATAWBA
Joseph’s father and grandfather were Evangelical Lutherans.
However, Joseph apparently converted to the German Baptists under the
influence of his wife’s parents, Adam and Jane (Reel) Creasman after they
arrived from Hampshire Co., Va. and after Joseph’s 1798 marriage to Catherine.
Around 1798 - 1805, the Hoyle's Creek community had no Baptist
church of any type. The handful of
German Brethren (called "Dunkers") in this area met in private homes
and were led by lay minister Lemuel Saunders who lived a few miles north of the
Stroups on Leeper's Creek.
In rural areas where German Dunkers were few, they seldom built churches,
but "met in each other's homes in the manner of the Apostles".
Scriptures were read in German, prayers said, and the Lord's supper held
"with its usual attendants of laying on of hands, giving the right hand of
fellowship, singing hymns a cappella and holding love feasts." The
Dunkers aimed at "the plain life, like the Apostles", which they
interpreted that women should wear drab colored clothing, and men long beards
and round brimmed hats, like their sister sects of Amish and Mennonites.
Dunkers paid no salaries to their ministers, lent money at no interest,
refused to swear oaths, refused to sue in court and rejected all forms of
violence.
Any Dunker who fought in the Revolution was "churched", and had
to repent before being reinstated. Obviously,
since ADAM STROUP fought alongside his father during the Revolution, neither
Joseph nor his father and brothers were Dunkers at that time.
MILL OPERATOR
Joseph is believed to have been the Stroup brother who operated his
father's mill on Threshing Flour Creek, because he later knew the skills of
wheat farming, mill construction and he operated a flourmill in Buncombe County
when wheat flour was still a rare commodity.
SISTER
ELIZABETH
In Feb. 1800 Joe's sister Elizabeth Stroup married Alexander
"Spence" Head. (23) She
and her children would remain "close" to Joe and his children for
several generations. 1800 CENSUS
LINCOLN CO., MORGAN DISTRICT
When the 1800 census was made, Joseph Stroup and his wife had a daughter
under ten, and still lived amid a cluster of adjoining Stroup farms consisting
of his father Adam, grandfather Jacob the elder, brother Jacob Jr. (now 10 years
married to Betsy Dellinger) and their young uncles Philip, George and Michael
Stroup.
Catherine Stroup’s father Adam Creasman also owned a small farm in this
area, as did her uncle Conrad Creasman. IRON WORKERS
Reputedly, one of Joseph’s brothers "moved to Charlotte, where he
operated an iron works". His older brother Jacob Jr. moved about 1815 to
South Carolina and then on into north Georgia where he built a number of large
iron foundries and became a prominent early iron manufacturer.
SOME MIGRATE
WEST
Starting from the year of Joseph's birth, 1776, when Gen. Rutherford had
defeated the Cherokee Indians, driving most into east Tennessee, that county and
western N.C. were really open for homesteading, and about 1800 many wagon trains
began leaving central North Carolina river settlements as young families headed
were land was cheaper. In the late
summer or early fall of 1805, a small wagon train of Germans led by Joe's
father-in-law, Adam Creasman left Hoyle’s Creek a caravan that included Adam's
brother Conrad Creasman and their large family of children, some of whom were
grown and married.
Joseph and Catherine and their two small children accompanied the
Creasman in this move to the western North Carolina Mountains, bringing wheat
seed, orchard cuttings, and everything needed to "make a new start".
Catherine's mother, Jane (Reel) Creasman, brought some white narcissus
bulbs and cuttings from a blush pink peony bush, both of which she had brought
by wagon from Virginia in 1786. BUNCOMBE
COUNTY
The Stroups and Creasmans made their first settlement in the western
North Carolina Mountains on Spring Creek near modern Hot Springs, a beautiful
area where clear streams rush around boulders, and ferns and wild flowers hang
from banks above the trails.
On Nov. 30 1807 Adam Creasman bought 200 acres of land on Warm Springs
Creek, and Joe Stroup reputed stayed there with his father-in-law long enough to
build a mill on Spring Creek.
However, the mountains in that area were so steep the valleys were very
cool all summer for lack of sunshine, and apparently Joe found the soil and
climate here unsuitable for growing wheat. By the summer of 1810 he and his
Creasman in-laws lived on the Swannanoa river north of Asheville. "JOSEPH
STROUP BOUGHT LAND FROM SHAWNEES" Shawnee
is an Indian word meaning "southerner", and these Indians tribe were
early inhabitants of the southern uplands.
They named the Suwanee, Savannah and Swannanoa rivers.
In 1730, the Shawnee were defeated by the Cherokee, but were never
completely driven out, existing thereafter as nomadic bands and still holding a
few towns in the southern mountains.
When Joseph Stroup chose his land on Bull Creek of the Swannanoa River,
it was illegal for a settler to purchase of land from the Indians, and the
Shawnee had no legal land claim. However,
from family lore as related by Helen Creasman Whittemore, daughter of Thomas
Creasman of the Conrad Creasman line): "In late 1810 Joseph Stroup was
given land by the Shawnees". He
had undoubtedly given gifts to a local band of Shawnees to insure that his
family could live undisturbed by any Indian shenanigans. EARLY
MILLERS Joseph
Stroup and James Gudger were early millers in Buncombe; Indians murdered a third
miller on the Swannanoa. Gudger
told his grandchildren the custom was to send a number of boys with bags of
grain to the mill to be ground and to leave it there about a month until the
boys returned with new grain and carried off the meal from the previous batch.
A man usually accompanied the boys to lift fallen sacks back onto the
horses. (16)
Gudger
told of being a boy on one such trip with no man along, and the boys struggling
with a heavy meal bag when a party of Indians caught them, threatened to hang
them, scaring them half to death, then laughed, put the meal sack on their horse
and left them unharmed. (16) 1806, BROTHER
DAVID
In January 1806 Joseph's younger brother, David, married Margaret
Inglefinger and brought her to Buncombe County.
His purchase deed is lost but the 1820 census showed him living next to
Tom Tweed of Tweed's Chapel on Cane Creek road, south of Asheville.
In
1823 he sold land on the Swannanoa River to Joseph Gudger whose home place was
at Gudger's Ford about a mile above Azalea, a crossing of the first public road
up the Swannanoa from its mouth. Gudger was the first pioneer of this family
into Buncombe, and his son, James, grew the first corn in the county that could
be used for next year's crop. (16) By the 1830 census, younger brother David
Stroup lived on Rock House Creek (Grassy Branch) of the Swannanoa, near Joseph. BULL CREEK
"At first the soil would not produce wheat; and it is said that a
Mr. Stroup, living on Swannanoa River, raised the first wheat produced in
Buncombe County". (16) This successful strain of wheat came from Joseph's
father's farm in Lincoln Co., and had undoubtedly been brought
there earlier from York Co., Pa. or Baltimore Co., Md.
Joseph
also dammed Bull Creek and built a mill, locating it on the upstream side from
where a (modern) bridge crosses Bull Creek road. (17) He built a log cabin on
(modern) Parker road. (18) Joseph
Stroup grew wheat, rye, corn and barley, and was "first in the county to
grow sorghum cane and built the first molasses mill."
At his mill and "machine shop" (20), he made gears, farm
implements and pots, being acquainted from childhood with sand casting, but he
was primarily a farmer and miller and never deeply involved in iron making as
his brother Jacob Jr.
Sondley wrote that the "public school at Bull Creek" was built
in 1802, but he seems to have a slight error in the date, because Joe Stroup was
still at Warm Springs in 1806/07, yet: "Joseph Stroup gave land to build a
school on Riceville road and sent all his children to it" (19) including
his daughters.
In later years, Joe's son, Silas, told his grandson Paul Clifton Stroup,
that his father, Joseph, had "a machine shop at Bull Creek". This was
apparently where he made machine parts, such as gears, rods and small boilers to
operate his gristmill and farm machinery. 1810 CENSUS
BUNCOMBE CO.
When
the 1810 census was made, Joseph Stroup's neighbors were his wife's father, Adam
Creasman and her uncle Conrad Creasman: (21)
Joseph Stroup aged 26-46 (he was 34)
1
female 26-45 (wife Kate, 33)
2 males -10 (sons Henry and David),
1 female 1-16 (dau. Elizabeth 11)
1 female -10 unidentified, b c1800-1810.
(May be Delaney, who drowned)
By 1810 Joe's neighbors included the Rice and Shope families, his
brother, David, and father-in-law, Adam Creasman.
Early Riceville had no church, so Joseph built Stroup's Chapel on his
land on Riceville Road. (22)
This chapel and the first Riceville school were small wooden buildings
that stood on Bull Creek road near the old cemetery where Joseph and Catherine
are buried. (23) DELANEY
DROWNED About
1812-1822, there was a family tragedy. "Little
Delaney was a toddler, and she followed her father to his mill, tried to cross
the mill race and fell into the water. Two older sisters found her and tried to
pull her out, but Lanny's head was caught between two rocks and she died, either
drowned or from a broken neck. Hers
was the first grave in the cemetery."
(24) 1820'S
Joseph's
earliest deeds are missing, but later ones show ownership of 657 acres, part
being mountain tracts for timber and for cattle to roam "free range"
during the summer, fattening on acorns. When
livestock was rounded up in late fall, any that were found without an owner's
brand had to be reported to the County Ranger, to protect the finder from being
considered a "rustler". On
April 9, 1822, Joseph Stroup reported to the Ranger finding a stray boar
appraised at $1.00, and in 1823 he reported finding a stray boar "value
$1.00." (25) 1832 MARRIAGE
OF DAUGHTER NANCY JANE TO JESSE CLARK
About 1832, Jesse Clark married Joseph's daughter, Nancy Jane. The young
couple moved next door to his father-in-law and Jesse Clark become Joseph's
partner in the mill. KILLIANS
In 1832, a man from their area, DANIEL KILLIAN died, and on Oct. 20, 1832
JOSEPH STROUP was one of the twelve men who signed the report to allot and lay
off for the Buncombe Court the dower rights of his widow, CHARLOTTE KILLIAN.
(Interestingly, Joseph’s father, ADAM, lived on Hoyle’s Creek, not
far from Killian’s Creek. Finding
the KILLIANS in close proximity to ADAM and now his son JOSEPH raises the
possibility that the KILLIANS may have been maternal relatives who perhaps
accompanied JOSEPH STROUP and ADAM CREASMAN from Hoyle’s Creek to Buncombe. 1833
GRAND JURY According
to the Minutes of the Buncombe Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, JOSEPH
STROUP served on the County Grand Jury for the January Term 1833.
1836 DEBT
The Minutes of the Buncombe Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions listed
various debts owed by men throughout the county, along with an estimation of
whether or not they were able to pay or not, including: JOSEPH STROUP, $24.17
“Good” (for it). 1834-36 LAND RECORDS
On June 21, 1834, JOSEPH STROUP entered 150 acres of land on the left
hand fork of Bull Creek “adjoining my own land that I bought of PETER
PENTLAND.” (#6994.
Buncombe Co. Superior Court, Microfilm M-1, No. 887594-1, Miscellaneous
Old Records.)
On July 12, 1836 JOSEPH STROUP enters 50 acres of land on the east side
of Grassy Branch adjoining HENRY WEST and ABLE HARRIS. (#5570.
Obid, Buncombe Co. Old Records.) On
Aug. 31, 1836 JOSEPH STROUP “enters 50 acres of land on the Big Branch that
comes into Bull Creek by my house and adjoining my own land.” (#5605.
Obid, Buncombe Co. Old Records microfilm.)
Also on Aug. 31, 1836, JOSEPH STROUP “enters 50 acres of land on the
branch that comes from the gap adjoining WILLIAM Rice’s land.”
(#5606. Obid, Buncombe Co.
Old Records.)
On Dec. 26, 1836 JOSEPH STROUP “enters 50 acres of land on both sides
of the old road that joins Bull Creek to Rim’s Creek and near the mountain.”
(#5727. Obid, Buncombe Old
Records.) 1839 NOTE TO
JESSE CLARK
On June 18,1839, in return for his son-in-law’s help with the farm and
mill, Joseph Stroup drew a bond promising Jesse Clark 50 acres, "the farm
where Clark now lives". This
tract apparently also contained JOSEPH STROUP’s mill, because after STROUP’s
death, CLARK owned and operated it. 1840's The
grandchildren now respectfully called the old gentleman "Grandsire".
(12) When the 1850 census was made, a teenaged grandson, JAMES STROUP, was
living with the elderly couple to help run the place. The Buncombe Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions reported
that in April 1844 JOSEPH STROUP had paid $18.00, apparently a debt to the
estate of WILLIAM YOUNG, and paid to his widow REBECCA. 1851 DEEDS AND
DEATH
On Feb. 6, 1851, when "Grandsire" was seventy-four years old,
he made his last trip to Asheville. Instead
of a making will, he deeded away the balance of his property, having already
divided part of his land and personal property with each of his children as they
married.
In the spring of 1851, a letter from his nephew, Alfred B. Head, written
to his mother (Joseph's sister Elizabeth), reported that "Old Uncle Joseph
is poorly and most of the time confined to his bed." (6) He died Aug. 13,
1851, (1) and was buried in the cemetery of Stroup's Chapel. (22) CATHERINE
STROUP After
Joseph's mill and 50 acres of home place passed to his son-in-law, Jesse Clark.
The widowed Catherine Stroup lived another thirteen years in the small
house on Parker road down the lane from this daughter.
She lived alone part of the time, but sometimes stayed with the Clarks.
In 1853, Catherine Stroup became a charter member of Berea Church. (26)
When the 1860 census was made, Catherine Stroup was visiting with relatives. She
died in 1864, and was buried beside her husband.
Since the neighborhood had no tombstone cutter, the Stroup children
scratched their parents initials and dates into field stones to mark their
graves on a hill overlooking their old home and Joseph's mill. (27) CLARK HOME
In 1880, Joseph Stroup's mill was run by Jesse and Nancy (Stroup). The
Clarks built a large, two-story frame house up the lane from the old Joseph
Stroup house.
Clark's son, Cornelius, was born in 1844, and his parents owned part of
the old Joseph Stroup home place. Cornelius
Clark's wife, Caroline (Padgett) Clark, kept the Riceville Post Office at one
end of the porch. (18) CHILDREN Joseph
and Catherine (Creasman) Stroup's known children:
1.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Stroup, (1799, 15 Apr 1872) b. Lincoln Co.,
m. in Buncombe Co. William Shope; buried Piney Grove Ch., Swannanoa.
2.
Henry Stroup, (b. ca 1801/2, Lincoln Co., d. after 1870 Buncombe) m. Barbara --
"Uncle HENRY STROUP raised only daughters."
3.
Sarah Stroup, (b ca 1807, Buncombe, d. after 1858 Buncombe); m. Archibald Ray.
4.
Nancy Jane Stroup, (29 Nov 1811, 19 May 1892) m. ca 1832 Jesse Clark.
5.
Mary Stroup, (19 Nov| 1813, 1894), m. PETER HARPER, son of Lott Harper of
Fairview.
6.
David Stroup, b. ca 1815. "Uncle DAVID STROUP raised only sons".
7.
Silas Stroup, (19 Aug 1816, 11 Nov 1896) m. ca 1839 Susannah Harper, d/o Lott
Harper.
8.
Delaney Stroup, b ca 1810/15, died as a toddler. END NOTES
1. Bible. Alexis Reunion
paper by descendant Whipple T. Black of Ky., who knew of this German Bible from
this grandmother, sister to Philip Stroup, Jr. who took it to Mississippi, then
to Arkansas.
15. There were two JOHN STROUPS about the same age: one, son of JACOB,
Sr. and NANCY RHYNE; the second was his nephew, son of ADAM; it is not yet clear
which one m. BARBARA MASTER.
16. 'History of Buncombe County', F. A. Sondley.
17. VERNON STROUPE, Jr. located and photographed the old mill's
foundations, still visible from the bridge on Bull Creek road.
18. Wilma Glass, after discussion with the Clarks who later owners; there
were only two large old homes in this area (the other burned); it is reasonably
certain the house now painted red belonged to JOSEPH STROUP before it passed to
the Clarks. It is also the house
closest to the mill, which JOSEPH definitely owned.
19. This school was still in use in the 1880's when Joseph’s great-grandson,
PAUL CLIFTON STROUP, attended it.
20. PAUL C. STROUP; "Silas said his father had a machine shop at
Bull Creek."
21. Census page 256, line 12: CONRAD CREASMAN was misspelled as
"Cowin".
22. PAUL C. STROUP: "They buried at Stroup's Chapel on Bull
Creek".
23. VERNON STROUPE, Jr. located the foundations of several small
buildings on both sides of Bull Creek Road; one was undoubtedly the school,
another Stroup's Chapel, both of which were on Joseph’s land.
24. PAUL C. STROUP: "SILAS named a daughter DELANEY after his little
sister who drowned in the mill race, but SILAS' daughter also died young."
25. Buncombe County Court, Pleas & quarter sessions, Minutes.
Microfilms roll C013.30002, N.C. State Archives.
26. Berea Church Minutes located by Vernon Stroupe, Jr., Asheville.
27. On May 6, 1869, HENRY STROUP and JESSE CLARK gift deeded two acres of
Joseph’s land to the Northern Presbyterians, who wanted to build a school and
church, which became Riceville Presbyterian Church, a gift that included old
Stroup's Chapel cemetery. In the 1950's, EDITH DE ARMOND discovered the
Presbyterians had removed the old tombstones, which were found by VERNON
STROUPE, SR. and JR.; VERNON, JR. used photographs to relocate the old graves
and the old stones were reset into a modern marker. From the files of Ethel Belle Stroupe
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