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Solomon "Black Solomon" StroupBorn- 1791 At- Lincoln County, North Carolina Died- 20 August 1868 At- Gaston County, North Carolina Buried- Unknown
(1) Married- Mary Lowre Marriage Date- March 1810 Born- Unknown Died- Unknown At- Unknown Buried- Unknown
(2) Married- Nancy Haskins Marriage Date- 3 May 1816 Born- 30 May 1799 Died- 3 March 1879 At- Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina Buried- Mountain Home Baptist Church
Solomon
Stroup was born c1791, the youngest son of Adam and Catherine Stroup of Saylor's
Branch of upper Hoyle's Creek of the South Fork of the Catawba River, in Lincoln
(now Gaston) County, N.C.
Lincoln deeds show that
when Solomon was born his grandfather, Jacob Stroup, Sr., owned a large farm
that adjoined Adam’s on the northwest, but with Saylor’s Branch between the
two home places.
Adam’s youngest son was nicknamed “Black Solomon” for the color of
his hair and beard, and the boy needed a nickname because he had several cousins
named Solomon in this same area, his grandfather having had seven sons, most of
whom had large families. STROUP -
DELLINGER RELATIONSHIPS
In August 1790, Solomon’s eldest brother, Jacob Stroup Jr. (born in
1771) married Elizabeth “Betsy” Dellinger, the teenaged daughter of wealthy
tavern keeper Henry Dellinger and wife, nee Hannah Rudisill.
On Sept. 12, 1812, Solomon was surety for the Marriage Bond Surety when
Michael Butz married a younger Betsy Dellinger, a cousin to the younger Jacob
Stroup Jr.'s wife. That same year,
1812, the Adam Stroup farm where young Solomon lived adjoined a farm owned by
Michael Dellinger, another of Betsy’s cousins. THE OLD STROUP
NEIGHBORHOOD
In the winter of 1804, when Black Solomon was about 16, his 80-year-old
grandfather, Jacob Stroup, Sr. died on his farm at “The Grove” and was
buried in the private cemetery on his home place.
After Grandsire’s death, his home place was taken over by his youngest
son, Michael Stroup, who was Solomon’s uncle, while his Uncle Phillip Stroup
owned a farm that faced the old road to Lincolnton, just east of Uncle
Michael’s. POSSIBLE FIRST
MARRIAGE
It’s possible that Solomon married more than once because the Stroup
men tended to marry young, and he was 28 when he married Nancy Haskins.
It’s also possible that he had several children by this (presumed)
first wife, children who moved to Arkansas.
Assuming that Solomon had an earlier marriage, his first wife may have
been a Dellinger, who died c1814/5. 1816 MARRIAGE
Solomon was about 28 years old when he married Nancy Haskins with a
Lincoln Marriage Bond dated 3 May 1816. Nancy
Haskins born c1800, was about 12 years his junior, and seems to have been either
the daughter or granddaughter of Robert Haskins who married Betsy Ewert with a
Lincoln Co. Marriage Bond dated July 5, 1796 with Frederick Earwood, Bondsman.
The Heads
The Surety for Solomon’s 1816 Marriage Bond was William Head, believed
a younger brother to Alexander “Spence” Head who married in 1800 Solomon’s
older sister Elizabeth Stroup. SOLOMON AND
NANCY LIVE WITH HIS FATHER
Solomon brought Nancy to live at the home place of his father Adam, who
was now aged 70 and, being undoubtedly glad to have help from his youngest son,
he apparently promised that he would inherit the tract containing the home
place.
Solomon’s mother, Catherine Stroup, was alive in 1811, but her maiden
name, and dates of birth and death are unknown. 1820 CENSUS
The 1820 Federal Census for Lincoln County, N.C. showed Solomon Stroup as
Head of Household with his father (born 1746, so now aged 74) living in the
home. Also listed, was one
female-aged 45 and up, probably Adam’s wife Catherine Stroup, and one female
age 16 - 25, who should be Solomon’s wife, Nancy Haskins. In
1810, Solomon and Nancy had 2 sons under aged 9, one being Joseph P. Stroup, age
about two. Solomon and Nancy Stroup’s second son born between 1816 and 1820,
was perhaps an infant that died young, but he could be the Levi Stroup who moved
to Arkansas and was disinherited by his (unidentified) father.
In 1826 father Adam Stroup received $500 from the sale of 704 acres of
land on Hoyle's Creek (that he had bought from his father) to his eldest son,
Jacob Stroup Jr. (b 1771), who now lived in Blacksburg, S.C., where he built and
operated Cowpens Furnace.
Since this son was an iron master who never moved back to Hoyle's Creek,
he undoubtedly wanted this Hoyle’s Creek tract for its deposits of iron ore,
which he undoubtedly shipped down the old road that ran southwest from Hoyle’s
Creek to his ironworks on King's Creek. Since
Adam did not buy more land with money from this land sale, he apparently kept it
as cash savings. 1831 Debts
The Lincoln County Superior Court for April 1832 term listed an Inventory
of Book Accounts. The man who made this list added, “such as I am either not
acquainted with the men or believe them not to be good, therefore all are
returned as Doubtful”, including:
Solomon Stroup, $0.25
Alexander Head, $1.00.
Since Solomon son of Adam was not insolvent, this twenty-five cent debt
may have been owed by a different Solomon who had moved away, as had Alexander
Head who at this time lived in Kentucky, reason he was “doubtful” for the
$5.50 debt of April 1831, due July 18, 1822. 1834,
Father’s Pension Application In
August 1834, when Adam was 88, Solomon apparently drove him the Lincolnton where
the elderly man testified to the Lincoln Co. court about his service during the
Revolution. Adam’s pension was approved, and he drew a monthly pension, with
$70 payment for arrears.
Money from these various sources, in addition to his prosperous farm,
made him relatively well off financially, to the benefit of his primary heir,
Solomon. Many of the early Stroups
inherited the "Methuselah gene" and lived long, healthy lives.
Adam lived about twenty years after he turned his home place over to his
son Solomon. SOLOMON
SETTLES HIS FATHER'S ESTATE
When Adam died c1835, aged around 89 leaving no will, Solomon settled his
affairs, and, although no court records of this settlement has been found, he
apparently executed his father's wishes to the satisfaction of his siblings.
About this time, two of his brothers bought land, probably with money
Solomon sent them as their share.
So, although Solomon inherited his father's Hoyle's Creek home place and
apparently a considerable amount of cash, his siblings seemed satisfied because
they remained on good terms with him, and "spoke well of Brother
Solomon". THE EAKER -
STROUP FARM
The Saylor's Branch farm that Solomon inherited c1835 contained about 600
acres. The house on it is believed
to have been about 70 years old, probably the building called “Joseph
Eaker’s improvement".
Joseph Eaker (Acre) was an German settler from York Co., Pa. who
apparently built a two story clapboard house on Saylor's Branch in the 1750's or
1760's during his first marriage, before he moved to another house a mile or so
away. Joseph Eaker’s second wife
was Fronica “Fanny” Stroup, daughter of Jacob Stroup Sr., (Solomon’s
grandfather). Joseph Eaker
apparently sold his Saylor's Branch farm to his father-in-law, either c1770 when
Jacob Stroup arrived in N.C., or c1785 when Joseph and Fanny (Stroup) Eaker
moved to South Carolina. In
1787 Jacob Stroup sold this Saylor's Branch farm to his eldest son Adam.
The deed mentioned a "bowling (boiling) spring" and “Joseph
Acre’s improvement". This was the house Solomon inherited c1835, the old home
place where, in the 1930-1960's, family reunions were held near Alexis when this
was known as “the Jackie Stroup home place".
(This old Adam Stroup farm at Stanley passed down in the family, owned in
1994 by the widow of David Augustus Stroup who died in 1991. Nard Cloninger's
father rented part of this farm, including the old Adam Stroup house, around
1900, after Jackie Stroup built a newer house on the property, and a photography
was made of the Cloninger family standing at the rear of this house.) Move
to Buncombe Co., Western North Carolina
Solomon’s father Revolutionary soldier, Adam Stroup, died in 1835,
after which his older brothers, Joseph and David, urged him to come and live
near them in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western N. C.
That fall, Solomon brought his wife Nancy and four or five of their
children to Buncombe County to live near two of his older brothers. May
1836
Solomon Stroup’s first Buncombe County record was on Saturday, May 8,
1836 when the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, recorded that he owed a debt
of $12.00 and was “good” for it. November
1836
On Nov. 8, 1836 Solomon Stroup entered #5694 for 100 acres of land on
Rock House Creek, south Buncombe County, N.C. KEEPS HIS
HOYLE'S CREEK FARM
Although Solomon and Nancy moved to a large farm on Rock House Creek, a
branch of the Swannanoa River north of Asheville, he did not sell his father's
old home place on Saylor's Branch, and either rented it out or left it in care
of his son Joseph P. Stroup who had married c1837 Lucy Ann Faulkner. DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
LUCY ANN
Lucy Ann (Faulkner) Stroup was a beautiful and vivacious young woman with
black hair, olive skin, a square jaw and large, brown eyes, and all the airs and
grace of "a Virginia lady", her family being recent arrivals from
there to Hoyle's Creek.
For reasons now forgotten, Solomon and his daughter-in-law Lucy Ann did
not like each other, and the ensuing feud between them lasted the rest of his
life. SOLOMON'S ROCK
HOUSE CREEK FARM
On his arrival in Buncombe, Solomon used part of his inheritance to
purchase a tract of rich river bottomland, 850 acres on Rock House Creek, near
his brother Joseph on Bull Creek and brother David on Grassy Branch, three
tributaries of the Swannanoa River. Solomon
apparently planned to live on one farm, and use his second farm as income
property and a legacy for his heirs. BUNCOMBE CO.
LAND RECORDS
1837, Nov. 9: Solomon Stroup, 100 acres Rock House Creek, from the State of
North Carolina.
1840, Jan. 1: Solomon
Stroup, 750 acres on Swannanoa River and Rock House Creek from R. F. Stockton.
1842, Oct. 28: Solomon
Stroup, 8 acres Rock House Creek. (8) Total
Buncombe land: 858 acres. 1840 ATTENDS
AN ESTATE SALE
In Feb.1840, the Buncombe Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions recorded
the proceeds of an estate sale held after the death of John Jarrett at which
Solomon Stroup bought “one funnel for 12 1/2 cents”. 1844 GRAND
JURYMAN
The minutes of the Buncombe Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions recorded
that Solomon Stroup served on the Grand Jury’s July Session in 1844. STROUP'S
CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
Several years before Solomon arrived in western N.C., his brother Joseph,
influenced by his Creasman in-laws who were German Dunkers, had built Stroup's
Chapel Baptist, a log church on a tract of his land on Bull Creek road
overlooking his home place.
When Solomon and Nancy arrived, this log church had a tiny congregation,
but no resident clergyman, so they held prayer meetings in German.
The core members were the three Stroup families and Joseph’s in-laws,
the Adam Creasmans.
About 1835, Baptist Elder Thomas Stradley, an Englishman who lived in
Asheville, agreed to preach at Stroup's Chapel about every six or eight weeks
when visiting his son at Bull Creek. The
little group of Germans from Hoyle's Creek at Stroup's Chapel became the nucleus
of Berea (English) Baptist Church at Riceville. BACK TO
HOYLE'S CREEK
While Solomon and Nancy were living on Rock House Creek, two more
children born to them, daughters Nancy in 1839 and Mira in 1842.
Then, according to an old family tale, “Nancy became homesick, they
quarreled, and she left him and took the younger children back to Hoyle's Creek.
Solomon followed her, and they resumed their marriage at the old Hoyle's
Creek home place." (1) They
left western N.C. around 1852, after living there about eighteen years. RUMORS OF
QUARRELS ABOUT CHILDREN
There was also a rumor in the family at Swannanoa Township that Solomon
and Nancy were displeased about one or more of his older children being
romantically interested in the children of his brother David, and, though there
were other marriages between cousins in the family, they considered this couple
"too close kin to marry."
Perhaps this lore referred to Solomon’s nephew, Alfred Head (daughter
of Solomon’s sister Elizabeth Stroup Head) who married David Stroup’s
granddaughter, Eliza Stroup in 1849 at Bull Creek, in spite of their being
"first cousins, once removed, and part of the family not approving,
although her parents did".
There were also tales that Solomon and Nancy, ardent Baptists, may have
disapproved of the behavior of his name-sake nephew Solomon (son of his brother
David) reputedly Swannanoa Township's local "Romeo" and had several
affairs, much to the distress of the family elders.
Solomon may also have quarreled with and disowned an older son in
Buncombe named Levi, after which reputedly "Levi moved to Arkansas."
(All of these old tales are given in hopes of identifying relationships,
such as whether Solomon had children by a first wife who were disinherited, as
was Lucy Ann and her children). A
Levi Stroup of Arkansas, “born N.C.” from census records may have been
Solomon’s disinherited son. NO QUARREL
WITH HIS BROTHERS
After Solomon and Nancy moved back to Gaston County, letters between the
families in both places prove that "Uncle Solomon" remained on
friendly terms with his brothers. He
kept in touch with part of their children, and corresponded with his nephew
Silas Stroup, b. 1816 at Bull Creek (son of his brother Joseph). "A TRUNK
FULL OF FAMILY LETTERS AND PAPERS"
Other letters were written between Solomon and his sister Elizabeth Head
and her children in East Tennessee. Some
of these family letters were seen in the 1980's by Bill Stroupe on a visit to
David Augustus Stroup, b May 29, 1913, who died in 1991, and whose widow, Mary
Frances, now owns this farm.
He showed many old family letters and photographs to Bill but he was
unable to make copies because he had only slide film for his camera, and Mr.
Stroup was not well enough to go with him to a copy machine.
Photocopies of these family papers and letters would be very helpful in
shedding light on the life of Solomon and his father Adam, and the nature of
Solomon’s long running dispute with his daughter-in-law Lucy Ann, and
identifying all his descendants. REVIVAL
MEETINGS
After Solomon and Nancy returned to Saylor's Branch, they found the
Baptists had become quite active at the area, and had built in 1845 a brush
arbor about four miles south of Lincolnton where they held annual Camp Revival
Meeting to about 1870. TAX LISTS
In 1846 Gaston County was formed from the south part of old Lincoln.
The new county's first Tax List showed Solomon Stroup in Capt. Farris'
Company. The next year, the 1847
Gaston Tax List showed him as “Sollomon” Stroup. SALEM BAPTIST
CHURCH FORMED 1847
In the 1840's a dynamic Baptist missionary, Rev. Wade Hill, was preaching
in this area, and Alexander Stroup, the teenaged son of Moses and Susan (Master)
Stroup, was "much impressed" when he heard Hill preach at Long Creek
Baptist Church, three miles east of Dallas. Alexander told his mother about Rev.
Hill, and she became interested in the young preacher.
Susan (Master) Stroup was known in the community as "a beacon of
light of Baptist principals". She
invited Rev. Hill to preach at Hoyle's Creek, and for the next two years, Rev.
Hill preached regularly at High Shoals and at Stroupe's School House, until
finally, about 1847, Salem Baptist Church was founded on Salem Road near High
Shoals with Rev. Hill as minister and the Stroups as Charter Members.
1850
Census The
Federal Census for 1850, Gaston County showed: [1]
Solomon Stroup aged 60 (b c1790). Farmer. Real property value: $1,200.
Nancy Stroup, wife, aged 50 (b c1800)
Elizabeth Stroup aged 22 (b
c1828)
Andrew Stroup, 20
(b
c1830/31)
Susannah Stroup, 17
(b
c1833)
David Stroup, 13
(b
c1837)
Nancy Stroup, 11
(b
c1839)
Mira Stroup, 8
(b
c1842)
Mary Stroup, 2
(b c1848)
LAND SALE FOR
BROTHER DAVID
In 1851 Eve Inglefinger, the widowed mother-in-law of Solomon’s brother
David, died at Hoyle's Creek. Her
farm was close to Solomon’s. A
Stroup family letter that year from Hoyle's Creek to Buncombe reported the death
of "old Mrs. Inglefinger, one of our very nicest neighbors."
David Stroup wrote from Buncombe and authorized Solomon to act in his
behalf in settling his mother-in-law's estate. On
Jan. 1, 1853, an Indenture (mortgage) was drawn by Solomon Stroup of Gaston Co.
for $98...paid by David Clanton...Solomon Stroup hath...sold...that tract...on
the waters of Hoyle's Creek...being 1/7th of the Inglefinger tract inherited by
David & Margaret Stroup who empowered Solomon Stroup to dispose of said
lands... bounded as follows...beginning at John Fullenwider’s corner...Thomas
Rhyne’s line...Michael Dellinger’s corner...containing by estimation 360
acres...tract originally granted to Henry Dellinger by deed 28 April
1804...conveyed to Phillip Dellinger by deed 28 Apr 1799....
SOLOMON STROUP (Seal)
J. B. Smith
Andrew J. Stroup. (Solomon’s son)
In the Probate Court May 7, 1869. SON JOSEPH P.
STROUP
At the 1850 census, Solomon’s older son, Joseph P. Stroup, was married
and living at Ironton, Lincoln Co., with his wife Lucy Ann and many children. 1852 RENTS HIS
BUNCOMBE FARM TO JOSEPH P. STROUP
In Aug. 1851 Solomon’s brother Joseph died in Buncombe. (12) About 1852
Solomon rented his farm on Rock House Creek, Buncombe, to his son Joseph P. and
wife Lucy Ann (Faulkner) Stroup). In
1853 Joseph P. & Lucy Ann Stroup, along with Catherine Stroup (widow of
Solomon’s brother Joseph) became Charter Members of newly formed Berea Baptist
Church, at Riceville, Buncombe, Co. DEATH OF SON
JOSEPH
Three years later, in Oct.
1856, Solomon’s son Joseph P. Stroup died at Rock House Creek aged about 38,
his grave being the first one in Berea Baptist's cemetery. Lucy Ann was now a
strikingly handsome young widow with ten children aged seventeen down to an
infant.
Both of her parents were dead, and so she remained on Solomon’s farm in
Buncombe. She may have also purchased a very small tract, because she gave the
census taker the value of some real property she said she owned. 1860 Census
The Federal Census of 1860 for Vestal's Ford Post Office, Gaston County
showed Solomon Stroup’s household of 9 people, and, although he was not
wealthy, he definitely was not poor. From the Federal Census of 1860:[1]
Solomon Stroup aged 72 (b. c1788). Farmer.
Real property $4,604.
Personal
property: $1,335.
Nancy Stroup, wife, aged 60.
b. C1800.
Andrew Stroup, son, aged 28,
b. c1832.
David Stroup, son, aged 22,
b. c1838.
Elizabeth Stroup, 26,
b. c1834.
Martha Stroup. 25,
b. c1835.
(Martha Ann Byrd, wife of son, Andrew J. Stroup)
Elizabeth Stroup, age 2/12
b. c1860.
(Infant dau. of Andrew J. & Martha Ann)
Mary Stroup, aged 12,
b. c1848.
Washington Quinn, aged 21,
b. c1839. THE CIVIL WAR
When the Civil War began Solomon was 72 years old and prosperous.
When it ended, he was 77, and, like many North Carolina farmers who
supported the C.S.A., was impoverished and, according to census records, owned
little except his land. If he
converted his inherited "hard cash" to worthless Confederate paper
money, it would explain why he had so little left when he wrote his will three
years later.
Both his sons Andrew J. and David “Choozy” had been in the
Confederate Army from Gaston County, as had two of his grandsons, Solomon and
John Stroup, sons of Joseph P. and Lucy Ann.
Although Solomon undoubtedly supported the Confederacy, he was also
"very close" to his son-in-law and near neighbor, Bart Stroup,
"who refused to fight." HARD TIMES
AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
The farm Solomon owned in Buncombe on Rock House Creek was in a part of
the mountains not really touched by the war, while many Hoyle’s Creek farms
had been stripped of livestock and crops by troops and renegades from both
sides. Perhaps Solomon needed
rental income from his Buncombe farm to support his nine-person household, and
pay taxes on both places to avoid delinquency and foreclosure.
By now, Lucy Ann and her children had lived on his Rock House Creek farm
about fifteen years and she had raised ten children here, half of whom were now
grown and married.
Solomon’s reasons for objecting to her continued occupancy are not
clear, but the labor of running the place that supported had fallen on her two
teenaged sons, who apparently resented the burden and as soon as possible moved
to Old Fort.
After they left, running the farm fell on one boy, the others being girls
or too young for heavy labor. Still,
although Lucy Ann lacked either the labor or money for farming, she insisted on
staying there, perhaps to maintain her independence. The
1860 census for Lucy Ann’s household showed an unidentified little girl here,
born two years after the death of her husband, perhaps a visiting grandchild.
All that is certain is that Solomon strongly disapproved of Lucy Ann and
her children, although they, like him, were Baptists. HIS QUARREL
WITH LUCY ANN
Perhaps the quarrel between Solomon and his daughter-in-law was she
believed him obligated to support her and her children, and he believed she
should remarry or be supported by her adult children.
Solomon displeasure included Lucy Ann’s grown children, perhaps because
he believed their mother's support was their responsibility and not his.
At one point, he ordered her to either pay rent or move in with her
married children, but she refused. Since he lived about a hundred miles away,
whatever the dispute went on between Solomon and Lucy Ann, it was carried it out
by mail. SOLOMON ORDERS
HIS FARM RENTED
Solomon rented his Buncombe County farm to his relative, young Silas F.
Stroup of Bull Creek, but she refused to leave or to pay rent.
Solomon now wanted her evicted from his Buncombe farm. Silas F.
Stroup
When Silas F. went to see Lucy Ann and told him her father-in-law wanted
her to move to the home of her children. She
"ordered him off the place". He
then wrote Solomon saying "that hell-cat Lucy refuses to vacate, and is the
laziest woman I’ve ever seen.” (14)
At this point, Solomon, legal owner of the farm, could have instructed
Silas F. to evict Lucy Ann through the Buncombe court and county sheriff, but he
was not willing to do more than send a family member to ask his daughter-in-law
to make other living arrangements, and, after she refused, he took no legal
action. Last Years
In the last years of his life, Solomon was probably ill and beset with
financial difficulties. Will and Death
On Aug. 11, 1868, Solomon drew his will, naming as heirs his wife Nancy,
daughter Mary, granddaughter, Catherine Black, son D. C.
He gave to his son Andrew J. Stroup, "the land in Buncombe Co. where
my daughter-in-law Lucy Ann Stroup now lives" -- and underlined her name
twice.
He mentioned his daughters Elizabeth, Susan & Nancy, and his
son-in-law James Black, and gave $1.00 "to each of my son Joseph
Stroup’s, dec'd, children." Executors: son Andrew J. Stroup, son-in-law Bartlett
Stroup. Witnesses, S. Morris, J. B.
Smith. Will Probate
1869
Solomon’s will was probated Feb. 11, 1869 in Gaston County, and also
probated in Buncombe in 1871 since he owned land in both places.
Solomon had "the last word" with Lucy Ann in this will.
He did not give his Rock House Creek farm to her, and cut off her
children with $1.00, each which insured they had no legal claims to his estate.
Either his eyes were bad or he was too sick to write because he signed
his will with an X. (He had signed his name to deeds.) ALL HIS
PROPERTY TO ONE SON
For reasons unknown, Solomon, who owned two large farms, gave both to his
son Andrew J., and none to his son D.C. (David Chuza), nicknamed “Choozy”. 1870 Census, Gaston County
The 1870 Federal Census for Gaston County, #29, page 54:
D.C. Stroup, age 33, farmer.
Amanda J. Stroup, 30, wife.
Mary Stroup, 25.
Wade Hill Stroup, 8
Amos R. Stroup, 6
Martha A. Stroup, 3
Charlie E. Stroup, 1.
Nancy Stroup, 71, mother. (Widow of Solomon) Lucy
Ann to Arkansas
After Andrew J. Stroup inherited the Rock House Creek farm where Lucy Ann
lived, he ordered her to move, and about 1872 she took her younger children and
followed her grown son Solomon Stroup to Otter, Saline Co., Arkansas. David
Choosey to Burke County, N.C.
After Solomon’s death, his son “Choozy”, who received only a
nominal amount from his father's estate, moved c1877 to Burke County, and
settled outside Morganton on Old Laurel Road in the area of Bortle's Chapel
Baptist Church, (which became Mountain Home Baptist Church).
Nancy (Haskins) Stroup moved with her son and died in his home on Mar. 3,
1879, and was buried at Mountain Home Baptist Church.
SOLOMON'S
KNOWN CHILDREN
1. Joseph P. Stroup, b c1818, Hoyle's Cr., Lincoln Co.; married c1837
Lucy Ann Faulkner moved briefly in Georgia, then came back to N.C.
In 1850, lived Ironton, Lincoln County.
By 1853, lived on his father's farm at Rock House Cr., Buncombe where he
died at age 38 on Oct. 18, 1856, and was buried in Berea Baptist Church
Cemetery, Riceville. His two eldest
sons moved to Old Fort, then to Marshall, Madison Co., western N.C.
His widow and younger children moved c1872 to Otter, Saline Co.,
Arkansas; several of his older daughters may have married and stayed in Buncombe
County.
2. Elizabeth Stroup, b
c1828; 1845 student Gaston Dist #36; in 1850 and 1860 lived with her parents on
Saylor's Branch. Solomon’s Gaston will 11 Aug 1868, probate 11 Feb 1869:
dau. Elizabeth.
3. Andrew Jackson “A.J.” Stroup, b c1832; m. Martha Ann Byrd, Gaston
Co. Bond 6 Nov 1854.
4. Susannah “Susan”
Stroup, b c1833; m her 1st cousin, Bartlett Stroup, s/o Moses & Susannah;
daughter Susan was mentioned in the will of father Solomon 11 Aug 1868, Exec:
"my son-in-law Bartlett Stroup".
NOTE: This next statement
needs to be checked, as it may refer to a different Susan:
"Susan died age 46 y, 2 m. 28 d., in summer epidemic; and was buried
in her father's private graveyard across the road and in the woods from the Bart
Stroup farm at Alexis."
5. David Chuza “Choosey” Stroup, born Feb --, 1836. In the 1860
census, aged 22, in father's home. About
1861 he married Amanda Jane Hill. Served in C.S.A., Gaston Co.; 1900 census, age
64, Morganton Twp., Burke Co.
6. Nancy Stroup, born c1839; was in father's home in 1850.
Married James Black before 1860, and died before her father's 1868 will
which mentioned her daughter Catherine Black, along with her widower.
7. Mira Stroup, c1842; 1850, father's home; nothing more known.
8. Mary C. Stroup, b c1848. 1850 in her father's home. In 1868 he willed
her a horse, colt and three head of cattle; in 1870 Mary Stroup lived with her
brother Solomon at the old home place. SOURCES
(3) Solomon’s daughter SUSANNA m her cousin, BARTLETT STROUP, s/o MOSES
STROUP & SUSAN MASTER. BARTLETT
was named in Solomon’s will as his son-in-law, hence no mistake about which
SUSAN was his daughter.
(5) Explanation of Marriage Banns and Marriage Bonds.
William Perry Johnson, in "The North Carolinian" journal,
c1960.
(8) James Wooley,
Buncombe County, N.C., Index to Deeds, 1783- 1850.
(9) Minutes of Berea Baptist Church, established 1853, with notes about
Rev. Stradley's visiting in the 1830's.
(10) Sherrill, Annals of Lincoln County, N.C., p 487.
(11) 1850 Federal Census,
Gaston, N.C., p 28 (404), dwelling 197, family 198.
(12) Wilma Glass, historian of Bull Creek Stroup family.
(13) 1860 census Gaston Co.,
p 82/1257. Note on the 1860 census: WASHINGTON
QUINN is unidentified and may have been a hired man.
(14) Letter from Silas Stroup, b 1816, to his Uncle Solomon Stroup re
having rented the Bull Creek farm, which Lucy Ann refused to vacate.
This and other family letters are in an old trunk now owned by Mrs. David
Augustus Stroup, on the old Adam Stroup farm at Saylor's Branch.
(15) Solomon's will copied by C.D. Stroup, Sr. of Lincolnton.
(16) (used once) D.C. Stroupe's family was published in 'Heritage of
Burke Co.', p 409/11, submitted by Ruby Stroup Dale.
(17) Descendants of Joseph P. and Lucy Ann (Faulkner) Stroup: through son
Joseph Henry Stroup, b 1861, from descendant Lorna La Fave. Another descendant,
through son THOMAS WADE STROUP: W.
E. Turner III.
(18) Solomon’s possible 1st marriage: he may have married first about
age 19, c1807, and had several older children who moved to Arkansas. If he had
an earlier marriage, his first wife may have been a Dellinger.
SOLOMON may have had two children by a first wife; his possible children:
1.?? LEVI STROUP, b ca 1810/15. SILAS
STROUP (b 1816 Bull Cr.) was "best friends" with his cousin LEVI
STROUP; Buncombe census records show two LEVI STROUPS, Buncombe County in 1830,
then both disappeared. According to lore, "Levi’s wife died and he moved
back to Gaston County, remarried and raised another family."
However, no trace of him has been found in Gaston, so he apparently moved
away again.
He may be the Levi Stroup who lived near LUCY Ann’s children in
Arkansas. If this LEVI was on of
Solomon’s older children by a first marriage, he was not named in his will.
Perhaps, like Lucy Ann, he had fallen out of his father's favor and was
disinherited (as was DAVID CHOOSEY). Or
perhaps Levi Stroup died after he returned to Gaston from Buncombe, leaving no
heirs.
2.?? Thomas Stroup, b c1815/20, N.C., 1880 resident of Otter, Saline Co.,
Ark., in whose home a son SAMUEL, b ca 1845, N.C. and a grandson LEVI FRANKLIN
STROUP, b ca 1870, N.C. THOMAS
and SAMUEL STROUP lived near JOSEPH P. STROUP's widow, LUCY ANN whose son
SOLOMON LUTHER STROUP believed they were his "first cousins".
If he was right, then THOMAS may have been an older son of Solomon’s,
not named in his father's will.
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