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Peter StroupBorn- abt 1787 At- Hoyle's Creek, Lincoln County, North Carolina Died- abt June 1851 At- Iron Mountain, Jefferson County, Mo Buried- Unknown
(1) Married- Elizabeth Hendrickson Marriage Date- 1807 Born- 1787 Kentucky Died- Unknown At- Missouri Buried- Unknown
BORN
NORTH CAROLINA
Peter Stroup was born about 1787 on Saylor's Branch of upper Hoyle's
Creek of the South Fork of the Catawba River in Lincoln County, central North
Carolina, one of the younger children of Adam and Catherine.
He came from a large, close-knit, German Lutheran family.
His grandfather, Jacob Stroup, born in 1724 in Maryland, had 7 sons and
22 children by 3 wives and his parents, Adam and Catherine Stroup also had 7
sons.
Peter and his brothers Henry
b c1773, Andrew, b c1781, were apparently close all their lives. They also knew well their young aunt Catherine Stroup, b.
c1775 and about their age, raised on the farm next door (daughter of Jacob
Stroup, Sr. by his 3rd wife, Nancy Rhyne).
In August 1790 Peter’s oldest brother Jacob married Betsy Dellinger,
and a month later his young Aunt Catherine married Philip Dellinger. (5) LINCOLN
COUNTY HOME PLACE
Peter, Henry, Andrew and
Catherine were raised in large families on large farms on upper Hoyle's Creek.
In Dec. 1804, Peter’s grandfather Jacob Stroup, Sr. died, and
18-year-old Peter and his nine siblings undoubtedly attended the funeral at his
home place adjoining theirs on the southeast. (3) His funeral was undoubted
performed by a Lutheran minister with burial in the private cemetery on his farm
where graves are marked by fieldstones. (2) WESTWARD
MIGRATION IN N.C. Deeds show their grandfather Jacob and father Adam, his eldest
son, each owned farms of approximately 850 to 1,000 acres, but both raised large
families, and community growth drove land prices up in this fertile farm area.
Therefore, after Peter, Henry and Andrew married they joined other young
people migrating west in search of cheap or free farm land.
Peter’s older brothers Joseph, b. 1776, moved to western North Carolina
mountains in 1805 in a wagon train with his Creasman in-laws. Joseph’s younger brother David, b. c1784, followed Joseph
to the mountains after his marriage in Lincoln County to Peggy Inglefinger.
These two brothers owned large farms near each other on Bull Creek and
Grassy Branch, small tributaries of the Swannanoa River, north of Asheville. GERMAN
IRON WORKERS
Like most folks of the day, the Stroups were farmers, but part of the
Stroup men were skilled in crafting iron and making guns, “trades known from
the old country.” (2) Peter’s
eldest brother, Jacob, moved to South Carolina in 1814 and became a prosperous
iron master who built and operated large iron foundries and owned thousands of
acres in three states. FIRST
MARRIAGE
Peter Stroup apparently married c1807 in Lincoln County, N.C., since his
older children were born there, but his first wife's name is forgotten.
However, he did not get a Lincoln County Marriage Bond and License, so
his bride was apparently a German girl who married him in a Lutheran Church
after publication of the Marriage Banns on several successive Sundays.
For Banns Marriages the minister, written in German in the Church Parish
Register, kept the only record. This
was legal and the cheapest way to marry, but in the early 1800's on the Catawba,
the only churches able to perform Banns Publication marriages were Lutherans at
times their congregations could support resident ministers, but the Lutherans at
Hoyle’s Creek, like the Episcopalians and Presbyterians, often had to depend
on circuit riding preachers, and were then unable carry out the successive
Sundays’ publications of banns, while English Baptists and German Dunkers kept
no parish records so never married by banns publication.(4) 1810
N.C. CENSUS
Peter and his brothers Henry and Andrew left Lincoln County before North
Carolina’s 1810 census, migrating west to Missouri Territory in a wagon train
of German families from their home area. According
to lore in the N.C. family, Peter’s wife drowned while they were crossing the
Mississippi River. If Peter’s first wife left any children, they were born
before 1810 when he was safe on the far side of the river. 1811
MISSOURI TERRITORY
Peter Stroup first settled in the Jefferson Barracks area of St. Louis,
probably with his brothers, Henry and Andrew, although they later separated.
The 1810 census listed Peter Stroup in St. Louis, Missouri Territory. He
later moved below St. Louis into southeast Missouri, probably near the
Mississippi river. In 1812 the
original Missouri District of St. Genevieve was formed along with original Cape
Girardeau District. Peter Stroup
probably lived in the north part of old St. Genevieve District (whose capital is
St. Louis) an area that in 1818 became Jefferson County. 1817
DELLINGERS TO MISSOURI On Aug. 18, 1817, Philip Dellinger deeded 333 acres on Hoyle's
Creek, N.C. to Eve Englefinger (mother-in-law of Peter Stroup’s brother David)
after which Philip Dellinger and his wife (nee Catherine Stroup d/o Jacob, Sr.)
migrated in another wagon train of Germans from Lincoln County, N.C. to Wayne
County, southeast Missouri. Three
years later, Philip Dellinger died in Wayne County in 1820 in one of the
recurrent fever epidemics along the river, and his widow took her children back
to Lincoln (now Gaston) County, North Carolina. 1823
LAND RECORD
Jefferson County Deeds, page 42: On May 20, 1823 Peter Stroup was listed
as a resident of St. Louis when he paid $80 for a tract of land in Jefferson
County, East by Northeast, perhaps in a U.S. Land Sale.
30 May 1823. Peter Stroup of St. Louis, 80 acres East by NE, for 5
pounds, 40 shillings 5 pence. (Note: these
land records need to be rechecked for accuracy.)
Peter Stroup would live in Jefferson County, Missouri, the rest of his
life. MISSOURI
EPIDEMIC, c1825
About 1825 another severe epidemic struck in Missouri and killed
hundreds. This contagious fever was so severe that letters were written back to
N.C. telling about “Missouri's terrible unhealthy climate”, and a wagon
train of Germans moved back to Hoyle's Creek, N.C.
Apparently among those who died in this epidemic were Peter’s wife and
his brother Henry and his wife.
Peter Stroup survived, but
his first wife died, leaving him with five or six children.
His brother Henry left several orphans, but Peter had no wife, he was
initially unable to care for any of his orphaned nieces and nephews, and so they
were taken to the farm of a neighbor family, the Gambles. (Note: the time of
death for each of Peter’s brother has not been discovered.)
One of the Gambles later married Betsy Stroup, eldest daughter of Andrew
Stroup. And Betsy (Stroup) Gamble later said that her brothers (and/or her first
cousins) were used as farm hands on the Gambles farm.) 1830
CENSUS
In 1830 Federal Census, Peter Stroup was still a resident of Jefferson
County, Missouri. However,
after Peter remarried, perhaps about 1839 he brought to his home in Jefferson
County his orphaned nephew Andrew Stroup (believed son of Henry). MISSOURI EPIDEMIC, c1838
In 1838, yet another great epidemic struck Missouri, one that was even
more devastating to the families living along the Mississippi river.
This one killed Andrew Stroup, leaving still more orphans in Jefferson
County. SECOND
WIFE, ELIZABETH (HENDRICKSON?)
Peter’s second wife was Elizabeth, born c1800 in Kentucky, was probably
the widow of a man named Hendrickson, but no marriage date or record discovered.
In 1850, 15 year old Mary A. Hendrickson, b. c1835, was in Peter
Stroup’s home, apparently his step-daughter, from which Peter married (Mrs.)
Elizabeth Hendrickson sometime after 1835. Her first husband may have died in
the 1838 epidemic. 1850
CENSUS The 1850 Federal Census for Jefferson County, Missouri
(microfilm #443610) p 477, Dwelling #1059 (next door to son George Stroup):
Peter Stroup, age 63, b. N.C., farmer, property value $700, wife Elizabeth 50,
b. Ky, William 20, b c1830 Mo., Clarissa 18 c1832, Richard 12, c1838, John 6
c1834, Mary A. Hendrickson, 15, b c1835.
The 1850 census showed the following Stroup households in the same area
as Peter:
John Stroup, b c1811 Missouri.
Andrew Stroup, b c1832 (believed orphaned son of Peter’s brother
Henry).
George Stroup, b c1837 whose wife was Fanny; (son of Peter) PETER'S
1851 DEATH AND PROBATE
Peter Stroup was dead by 1851 from probate papers because on June 17,
1851 (his widow) Elizabeth (x) Stroup was named Administration of the estate of
Peter Stroup, dec'd, and made an affidavit to Jefferson court stating that Peter
Stroup had 9 heirs, given as:
1. Richard Stroup in Pulaski or Wright County, Missouri;
2. Jacob Stroup in Wright County.
3. Polly Vinyard. (Polly is
a nickname for Mary)
4. George Stroup.
5. Ellen Null.
6. Catherine Copper.
7. William Stroup.
8. John Stroup.
9. Clarissa Stroup.
At time of the 1851 probate, all of heirs lived in Jefferson County
except the two sons stated, Richard and Jacob, and all of were of legal age
except the youngest, Clarissa Stroup. Note
that Andrew Stroup, b c1832, was not an heir, which seems to confirm that he was
one of Peter’s orphaned nephews.
At Peter Stroup’s Estate Sale on July 11, 1851, purchasers included
persons believed to be his son, sons-in-law, and grandsons: John Stroup, William
Cooper, John W. Null, John Vinyard, Charles Vinyard of Belleview and LeRoy
Vinyard.
PETER
STROUP’S KNOWN CHILDREN
Peter Stroup’s children, from his estate probate, plus Jefferson County
census records:
1. Jacob Stroup (probably Adam “Jacob” Stroup if named in German
style) born c1808 N.C.; married May 5, 1833 Elizabeth Fleming (1812-1815 -
before 1870) perhaps d/o John Fleming who served on the first Jefferson Co., Mo.
Grand Jury in 1819; and moved before 1851 to Wright Co., Mo.; named in father's
1851 estate probate.
2. Catherine Stroup, born c1810, N.C.; probably named for her paternal
grandmother, Catherine Stroup, wife of Adam; in father's 1851 probate as
Catherine Cooper of Jefferson County. Her
husband was probably the William Cooper of her father’s 1851 estate sale.
3. John Stroup (b. c1811 N.C.- d. before 1870 Mo.); m. Elizabeth Fleming
on May 5, 1833; the 1850 Federal Census for Missouri, Jefferson County, p 477
(Victoria, Iron Mountain), shows he lived next door to his father in dwelling
#1058 with his father Peter in dwelling #1059; John Stroup: 39, b. Mo, farmer,
1,000 acres; wf Elizabeth 33, c1817 Mo (d. before 1870); Susan 15, William 12,
Peter 10, Austin 5, George 2. A
year later, in August 1851, John Stroup bought something at his father’s
estate sale.
Also in Peter Stroup’s
home in 1850, Hercules Ogle, 20, laborer and Andrew Stroup, 18, laborer, b. Mo.
c1832. In father's 1851 probate, John Stroup of Jefferson Co. (Note:
Census takers were instructed to list all adult males as “laborers”
except those who owned land, were in school or had a trade, such as
“shoemaker”. Land owners were
called “farmers”, but any
non-student sons or other kin on the same farm were called “laborers”.)
4. Mary “Polly” Stroup, born c1813? Mo.; m. June 1, 1841 John Vinyard
at home of her father; 1851 father's probate, lived Jefferson County.
The three men attending her father’s estate sale were almost certainly
her husband and two sons: John, Charles and LeRoy Vinyard.
5. Ellen Stroup, b. c1815? m. --- Null; 1851 father's estate probate,
lived Jefferson County. Her husband
was probably the John W. Null of her father’s estate sale.
6. Mahala Stroup, b. c1817, m. John Couch Aug 15, 1839.
(From David Huskey, 1999, descendant of John Stroup & Eliz. Fleming.)
7. George Stroup, Sr., born c1821 Mo.; married Dec. 26, 1844 Fanny C.
Frazier, born c1838 Indiana; the 1850 census showed him living near his father:
George Stroup in dwelling #1062, father, Peter, Sr. dwelling #1059. In his home
in 1850: Euphine 11, c1839, Roseine 8 c1842, Michael 6 c1844, Augustus 3 c1847,
Philip 3 c1847 (twins?), Felix 1 c1849. In 1851, George Stroup of Jefferson Co,
probate heir to Peter Stroup. (7)
8. Sarah Stroup, b. c1824; m. Dillon Ogle Aug. 22, 1845.
(1999, from David Huskey, descendant of John through his dau. Susan.)
9. Nancy Stroup (25 Aug 1820 - 27 Apr 1901); m. Anthony Fisher June 30,
1844. (From David Huskey).
10. William Stroup, b. c1830; 1851 father's estate probate, son William
of Jefferson County, Mo.
11. Clarissa Stroup, born c1832; 1850 census Jefferson Co., 18, father's
home; father's 1851 probate, Clarissa, minor, of Jefferson Co.
12. Richard Stroup born c1838; 1850 Jefferson Co.: Richard Stroup 12,
home Peter, 63; 1870 (?) census: Richard 35, Jefferson Co, wf Permelia 28, b IL,
Samuel 10 b Illinois, James C. 9 b Illinois, Mary Caroline 3 b MO. June 1851:
Richard Stroup of Pulaski or Wright Co., MO, heir of Peter Stroup. 1851: Richard
Stroup appt'd commissioner School Twp. 2, Leclede Co. Mo. SOURCES
1. Public records and correspondence with several descendants.
2. Early lore from the late Chauncey D. Stroup, Sr. of Lincolnton, N.C.
3. Home places: Peter's father and grandfather were both buried on their
farms in private, family graveyards. In 1992, both the Jacob and Adam farmhouses
are gone. However,
Adam’s farm is still owned his by descendants, and between 1930's - 1960's
site of Stroup reunions now held at the Alexis Community Center or Mt. Zion
Baptist Church. The old Adam Stroup farm is in north Gaston County between
modern Alexis and High Shoals, southeast of Lincolnton, P.O. Stanley, N.C.
4. Lutheran Church records for their home area were kept in German, and
those that survived have not been translated and published.
5. Nard
Cloninger, descendant of Dellingers; Martha Catherine Stroup, daughter of Jacob
Stroup, Sr. m. Philip Dellinger s/o Henry and Hannah (Rudisill) Dellinger, and
grandson of immigrant Johannes Philip Dellinger, Sr. who married in Germany
c1740 Mary Tankersley and arrived at Philadelphia Aug. 28 1750 on the ship Two
Brothers. Philip Dellinger lived on
Leeper's Creek, Lincoln County, N.C. near Iron Station.
6.
Descendant of George Stroup: 1981, Dorothy Goodwin, (Mrs. W. E.).
Letters to Ethel Stroupe
(formerly Mrs. John W. Vochko, Jr.)
7.
Estate papers, land records, tax records, etc., research of Dolly (Stroup)
Waugh, July 13, 1992, sent to Ethel Stroupe. From the files of Ethel Belle Stroupe
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