Re: Stroup - Creasman marriage
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Stroup - Creasman marriage
8/13/00
Joseph Stroup who m. Catherine Creasman was b. May 2, 1776 Saylor's Br. of upper Hoyles Cr., Lincoln (now Gaston) Co., N.C., s/o Rev. Soldier Adam Stroup b 1746 and Catherine --- (surname unknown) who m.c1768 probably in York Co., Pa. or Baltimore Co., Md., before they came by horse & wagon with his Uncle Peter "Stropes" b 1728, to join Adam's father, Jacob, b. 1724 Md.The Stroup name is an Anglicized version of the Holland Dutch name used bythe immigrant, Stroop, which is pronounced Strope.The immigrant and later family were Evangelical Lutherans, but Joseph Stroup converted to the German Dunkers, the church of his father-in-law, Adam Creasman, and at Bull Creek, Buncombe, build a log church on land he owned near where the modern Riceville Rd. crosses Bull Creek.Joseph's mill stood upstream from this concrete bridge, in a hollow, behind where a two story house now stands, painted red, built by Joe Stroup's son-in-law and mill partner, Jesse Clark, on land Stroup deeded to him.Joseph and Catherine Stroup are buried on the hill above Riceville Rd. in their old private cemetery that was part of the church he built, Stroup's Chapel, a forerunner of Berea Baptist, formed 1853 from the old congregation.This cemetery is on land that Joseph Stroup's children donated in the 1870's to the Northern Presbyterians to build their church, and they now call the Stroup cemetery "the old part of OUR cemetery", and pulled up the old tombstones "to make it easier to cut the grass".My father rescued Joseph and Catherine (Creasman) Stroup's old stones from a ditch and set them into a modern stone so big the Presbyterians will a bulldozer to remove.Before he and my brother could rescue the Creasman stones in the next plot, the sun went down and Mr. Cordell, who owns the farm that used to be Joseph Stroup's, then Jesse Clarks, used the old tombstones to build a rock wall.I do have initials from these Creasman stones, and Adam is buried there, along with his wife, Jane Reel Creasman, their graves now unmarked.Adam moved to N.C. in 1785 with his brother Conrad, both young married men with small children, moving from the upper Potomac River, Hampshire Co., Va. into a Dunker settlement on the Yakdin in Rowan/Davidson Co., N.C. before moving the Lincoln Co., where they met the Stroups and Schells, with whom their children intermarried before moving to Buncombe, arriving after 1808, when the first Creasman land was asquired on Grassy Branch from Henry Craig.
Hope this helps.
Ethel