Religion -
Quaker

Burial - [place: Sparrow Creek Cemetery]

Burial - [place: Providence Cemetery, Batesville, GA]

Two children listed for this couple: Julia and Alice

Burial - [place: Dellinger Graveyard]

Burial - [place: Gainesville Cemetery, Gainesville, Cooke County, TX]

Occupation -
Gristmill

Benjamin STRAIN served in the War with Mexico. Enlisted 11 June 1846. Discharged 29 May 1847. Rank of sergeant in Company K, 1st Georgia Volunteers. His widow applied for a pension in 1887. She drew $8.00 a month.

According to Mary Lou Lee (1631 Merritt Drive, Novato, TX 94947), Benjamin served in the same outfit with his brother, Moses B. STRAIN.

His death and burial is recorded in the Coweta County, GA Minute Books.

Occupation -
Universalist Minister

Burial - [place: Sennia, Coweta County, GA]

Burial - [place: Briar Patch Cemetery]

James STRAIN raised the RHYNE children from Catherine's first marriage, along with the eight children they had together. By the time of the 1830 Census, they were in Habersham County, GA.

Moses STRAIN served in the War with Mexico in Company K, 1st Georgia Volunteers. He died in Matamoros, Mexico after contracting diarrhea at Ft. Belknap on the Rio Grande River. He served in the same outfit as his brother, Benjamin Franklin
STRAIN.

From church newspaper upon Nancy's death: "October 22, 1902 another member of our Salem church passed on [to] the higher life. Sister Nancy E. Addington. . .joined the Church in the morning of her life and her faith was strong in the
Universal Salvation. She had a large circle of friends. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. J. W. Daniel, to mourn the loss of a dear mother." Written by J. A. Moore of Waleska, GA.

Title -
I

No record of Adam's birth in Maryland has been found. ®47

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I

Adam was born "3 miles south of city of Baltimore." He followed his father, Jacob, to the South Fork of Catawba, NC. He settled first at Leeper's Creek, then in 1787, he bought a farm at Saylor's Branch, northwest of his father's place. ®47

Affidavit of Adam Stroup, Lincoln County, April 30, 1833, stating he served under James Hill who was a Lieutenant in

Captain Armstrong's company for three months. He states that Hill was at Gates' defeat during this time of service. ®52

Title -
II

Burial - [place: Private Cemetery on his farm, Hoyle's Creek, NC (Fieldstone)]

In 1850, Adam was living in East Chickana, Walker County, GA.

Birth: ®51

Occupation -
Farmer

Title -
III

Burial - [place: Old Stroup Cemetery]

Alonzo died in the Civil War.

Burial - [place: Old Stroup Cemetery]

Burial - [place: Old Stroup Cemetery]

Burial - [place: Old Stroup Cemetery]

Andrew enlisted in the Confederate Army on Dec 22, 1863, at the age of 17. He was assigned to Captain McCaw's Company of Exempts for Provost duty at Selma, Alabama. He died six months later of pneumonia at the General Hospital, Selma.

Burial: ®46

Beverly lived in Mississippi.

Burial - [place: Old Stroup Cemetery, Danville, Morgan County, AL]

Daniel moved to Florida, where he owned an orange grove.

Burial - [place: Johnson Chapel Cemetery, Neel, AL]

In 1926, Faree was living in the Texas/Arkansas area.

There was a Henry D. STROUP living in Walker County, GA in 1880 with a HATIFIELD family (the only STROUP in Walker Co.) ®2

Henry died in the Civil War.

Death: ®50

Burial - [place: Spring Creek Cemetery, Shelby County, AL]

Jacob's birthplace has not been confirmed. Possibilities are Queen Anne County, Talbot County, or Baltimore County, all in East Maryland.

Jacob had three wives. His first wife, Catherine BIRKHOVER, died at about age 27. No information on second wife. Third wife was Nancy RHYNE. ®1

Jacob lived at "Major's Choice" tract, south of Patabsco River, west of Elk Ridge. He moved to North Carolina about 1770 and settled at "The Grove," Hoyle's Creek. ®47

Said to be the father of 22 children

Jacob Stroup in 1746 lived at Major's Choice, three miles south of Baltimore in South Patapsco Hundred. According to 1750 Baltimore tax list, he owned land in Major's Choice and Jacob's Lot. These tracts are about three miles south of the
Patapsco River, and about three miles west of Elk Ridge, MD - Old Baltimore, modern Howard Co., MD. In or about 1769, he moved with his third wife, Nancy Rhyne Stroup, who was probably a young widow, to Hoyle's Creek, NC. In 1780 he was
issued three Revolutionary War vouchers for provisions to the American Army (Vouchers in NC State Archives). According to lore, he also fought alongside his two eldest sons. This would have been Adam, who

fought at Camden, and Peter who died before 1800. Adam's war service verified by his 1834 Lincoln Co., NC pension application. Jacob had twenty-two children, including seven sons, by three wives. His farm between Alexis and High Shoals, NC is
still owned by descendants.

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I

Burial - [place: Family cemetery near High Point, NC (unmarked)]

Jacob STROOP was in Habersham County, GA by the time of the 1830 Census and had an iron works there. Here he married again to a widow, Sarah FEUELL. They moved to Bartow County, GA by 1837, and he had an iron works on Stamps Creek. He is
buried near Stamps Creek.

Jacob played a major role in developing the iron industry in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. His sons' Moses and Jacob Decatur Stroup did the same in Alabama. When Jacob was about 15 years old, around 1786, he was learning the
Iron-Master trade. By 1820 he was an Iron-Master and came to York Co., SC and then to Spartanburg County, SC where he built several iron furnaces. He later sold these furnaces to a Colonel Nesbitt, and left his son Moses to help with the
operation. By 1828, he came to Habersham County, GA and built another small operation. Jacob got John C. Calhoun interested in the iron ore business, and John C. Calhoun was the person backing the company. This latest operation was known as
"Habersham Iron Works and Manufacturing Company," and prospered until the end of the Civil

War. However, Jacob had left Habersham County about 1836, after sending his son Alexander to Cass County (now Bartow), Georgia to buy land. Alexander purchased Land Lot 298 in the 21st District of the 2nd Section, from Jesse Lambert. On this
land, Jacob built a cold-blast furnace and a grist mill. This area of Bartow County. is now covered by Lake Allatoona. A Mark Anthony Cooper held half interest in the operation. Mr. Cooper later bought Jacob's interest and the operation
became known as the "Cooper Iron Works," - ruins of which are still standing. Jacob Stroup was an Iron-Master extraordinaire, and went on to erect still another furnace on the east bank of Allatoona Creek, which he was still operating at the
time of his death. His former home was across the road from the cemetery where he is buried.

During the War of 1812, he formed a company that he commanded.

Burial - [place: Goodson & Tidwell Cemetery]

Title -
III

John lived in Ft. Worth, TX.