Joseph FOOS & Rebecca STROUP

Table of Contents

Diana, Goddess of the Hunt — for Ancestors!

Every-Name Index

Joseph FOOS
Rebecca STROUP

Husband: Joseph FOOS
Birth: 26 Aug 1826, Madison Co., OH
Death: 1871 or 1875, near Winfield, Cowley Co., KS
Father: Gen. Joseph FOOS (c1771-1832), Ohio State Senator
Mother: Margaret "Peggy" PHIFER / PFIFER / FIFER (1792-1834)

Marriage: 10 Dec 1846, Madison Co., OH

Wife: Rebecca STROUP — "said to be the first woman to use the overland stage route to California"
Birth: ca. 1827, OH
Father: John STROUP, Jr.
Mother: Isabella WINTHROP

Adopted Children:

1. Ada FOOS, b. 1850/1, Australia

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; USA, US, United States, Kansas, Ohio

Sources:

1. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).

Joseph FOOS
Spouse: Rebecca STROUP
Marriage: 10 Dec 1846, Madison, Ohio
Source: Marriage Records, 1810-1867. Ohio. Probate Court (Madison County)

2. 1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): can't find.

3. 1860 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): can't find.

4. 1870 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #199 of 392): Springfield P.O., City of Springfield (Ohio Ward), Clark Co., OH, Roll M593_1180 (Book 1), p. 310A, PN 79, 510/567, enumerated 21 Jul 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1870: for an explanation of the column headings, please see
What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 19

510 567 Foos Joseph 43 M W Retd Farmer 10,000 Ohio /

____ Rebecca 40 F W Keeping House Ohio

____ Ada 19 F W Helps Mother Australia / /

5. 1880 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): Rebecca not found, at least not as Widow FOOS.

6. Gene Carlton Smith. 1997. FOOSE / FUSS / FOOS / FAUS / FUSE: A Chronology of events with Sources (online at members.aol.com/gsmithsan/foose1.htm).

7. Tom Moore. Descendants of Nicholas FOOSE (online at www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4694/foosdesc.html#foot198): says Rebecca's mother was Isabella HUME.

8. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).

9. Email from Shane WALSH (12 Aug 2010):

"Joseph Foos went to Australia in about 1853 and spent many years there as a hotel entrepreneur with gold mining interests. He returned to America around the 1870's."

The census records suggest he left before 1850 and returned by 1870 (see above).

Contact Home
Page Table of
Contents DNA
Hub Biddle
DNA Carrico
DNA Corbin
DNA Cupp
DNA Danish
DNA Ely
DNA Lyon(s)
DNA Rasey
DNA Reason
DNA Rose
DNA Straub
DNA Pedigree
Charts Census
Records Every-Name
Indices

Everything I have is online at this web site. I have no further information, so please don't write asking me if I do.
On the other hand, if you feel I've made an error, please don't hesitate to notify me, but in which case,
please include a link to the page you are referencing.
There are over 18,000 pages on this web site, and I simply don't remember every page, much less every person on every page.

"The Cloud" is double-speak for "dumb terminal on a main frame." Been there; done that. Never again.
You are giving away not only your privacy, but control of your data, your apps, and your computer to a corporation. Is that really where you want to go?
The IT guys on the big iron hated the Personal Computer because it gave users freedom and power; now they've conned you into being back under their control.

Table of Contents

Every-Name Index