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.