Old Levi Stroup Homeplace Texas

This wonderful old photo was sent to me by one of the Texas Stroups. We have located Levi's headstone but it appears to be fairly new and we think his name was misspelled Levy. Old documents (Fathers will, Land deeds) show his name as Levi. Anyway the photo is priceless.

David Chuzy Stroup Family

One of our wonderful Cousins sent me this photo of David sitting on his porch with his family. Now I consider these old photos priceless and really cherish them. It makes me feel so much more connected. This photo was likely taken about 1912-1913 judging by the size of his Granddaughter Katie. DC died from a stroke in 1920. When this photo was taken son Barto had died in 1890 and son Wade Hill was living in Ohio. The only one missing is daughter Ellen, could that be her on the end of the porch with one of her young daughters?

David Chuzy descends from Solomon known as "Black Solomon" because of his coal black hair and beard.




"DC" Stroup's Civil War record:


David Chuzy Stroup – David was a volunteer for the Confederate Army for a period of 3 years on 6 July 1862 at the age of 26 in Lincoln County, NC. He was conscripted as a private in Company H, 52nd Regiment under the command of J.A. Patterson. David was born on 6 Feb 1836 in Gaston County, son of Solomon (1791) Stroup and Nancy Haskins.
On 24 May 1863 he deserted then returned to his unit on 28 Dec 1863
From Jan through April 1864 he was with his company.
David was captured on 12 May 1864 at Spottsylvania and held prisoner at Point Lookout from May to Dec 1864.
David was transferred to Elmira, NY to be exchanged. He had $20 in his possessions.
David was exchanged on 20 Feb 1865.

Enjoy,
Cousin Mike

A Stroup in the KKK

Well today I was working on a new Bio for OJ (Othenile Jerome) who descends from Philip then Levi. He is part of the Texas Stroup Branch. Going through Ethel's notes I ran across the story below. This is the first time I have seen a Stroup mixed up with the KKK.
Enjoy.
Cousin Mike

O. J. Stroup was born on December 27, 1848, in Cassville, Georgia. He became a carpenter. After the Civil War, O. J. got mixed up in the Ku Klux Klan. One night the KKK went to Levi Stroup's house and forced O. J. to get on his mule and go with them on a hanging party. They hung six Negroes that night. The next night O. J. slipped out of town on his mule and rode to Shreveport, Louisiana. There he sold his mule for $160 and paid Jim Barnett $4.50 to let him ride in his lumber wagon to Blue Ridge, Texas. After coming to Blue Ridge, he worked around McKinney and married Mary Alice Douglas Warren on April 3, 1878. They lived in a one-room house and cleared the land of the timber. They cut boards and poles from this timber and hauled them to the railhead 10 miles east of McKinney and sold them at ten cents each to pay for their land, groceries, etc. The poles were shipped to West Texas for use in building barbwire fences.

Welcome

I'm not really sure what we are going to do with this. My current plan is to post daily things I'm working on and things I find interesting. Sid Stroupe hopefully will be making posts to this blog. Sid spends most of his time researching Abner "Ab" Stroup's family but now assists me in working on Stroup Family tree on Ancestry. We currently have over 6,000 names in our tree.



1. I just finished updating the Texas Stroups on our Ancestry tree. A kind lady in Texas has agreed to update our Texas Index.



2. I'm still working on the North Carolina Stroups in the Civil War. Some things I have discovered are:

a. We had one Stroup who served on the CSS Virginia (formally Merrimac).

b. A lot of men deserted but returned to their units. I suspect this was because they returned to tend crops or maybe a family illness.

c. One Stroup was present when the South surrendered.
Cousin,
Mike Stroupe