John STROOP & Rachel KEPHART & Hannah S. WENTWORTH

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John STROOP
Rachel KEPHART
Hannah S. WENTWORTH

WARNING: This page is based mostly on secondary sources, so caveat emptor! Whether this John is the son of John & Anna Catharina STRUB and whether this John married both Rachel and Hannah is an open question, though given John's and Hannah's ages when they married in 1801, it is likely that both had been previously married. If he is, indeed, the John STROOP who took the Oath in 1764, which seems likely, then it argues against his surname having been originally STRUB.

Husband: John STROOP / STROUP / STRUB? / STRUBE?
Birth: ca. 1745
Death: 6 Mar 1831
Disposition: buried West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala-Cynwyd, Montgomery Co., PA
Military Service: Revolutionary War: Battle of Brandywine
Debility Pension: 4 Sep 1794

Marriage: 11 Apr 1768, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA

Wife: Rachel KEPHART / GEBHART
Birth: 1749, Switzerland
Death: 1793, PA
Father: Heinrich KEPHART (1725-1793)
Mother: Barbara GRUNAUER (c1729-1793)

Marriage-2: 2 Jul 1801, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA

Wife: Hannah S. WENTWORTH / WINTWORTH
Birth: 1767, PA
Death: aft. 25 Mar 1855

Children with Rachel KEPHART:

Children with Hannah WENTWORTH:

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; SWI, Schweiz; USA, United States, Maryland, Pennsylvania

Sources:

1. Marriage Record:

2. 1790 Census

3. 1800 Census

4. 1810 Census

5. 1820 Census

6. 1830 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): can't find John.

7. 1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): can't find Hannah.

8. 1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #82 of 263): Boarding House, North Ward, Philadelphia Co., PA, Roll M432_817, p. 247B, 499/673, enumerated 2 Aug 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Hannah Stroup 83 F Penna

One of 22 boarders in a house run by Widow Charlott STONE. Hannah is the first boarder listed, after the STONE family, which may signify a relationship between Hannah and the STONEs.

9. Archives of the PANORTHA-L Mailing List (online at RootsWeb.com):

Stroup, John or as John Stroop, wife Hannah S can't read # has BLW, widow applied 25 March 1855 at Phila. aged 87. Soldier had married Hannah Wintworth or Wentworth 2 July 1801 at Phila. and soldier died there 6 March 1831. Soldier had rec'd a disability pension from 4 Sept 1794

No source is given.

10. Revolutionary War Soldier Graves: Burials in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery & Philadelphia County (online at the Sons of the American Revolution: Pennsylvania Society web site, www.sar.org):

Patriot State of
Service County of Burial Cemetery Rank Birth Death Grave Patriot
Index

John STROOP PA Montgomery West Laurel Hill Cem Private unk 1831 unk -

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

John STRUB
Birth: About 1743, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Marriage: 11 Apr 1768, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Spouse: Rachel KEPHART
Birth: 1749, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Source: patron submission

12. Anon. Feb 1975. "Queries and Answers." Bulletin of the Maryland Genealogical Society 16(1): 49 (online at GenealogyLibrary.com):

16-1-27. KEPHART, STRUBE. Would like birth date and marriage dates of all ch. of John STRUBE and wf Rachel KEPHART (b. 1749), m. 11 April 1768, settled in Westminster...

If John and Rachel lived in Maryland, it argues against him being the John who lived in Philadelphia.

13. Frank F. Bell II. 1960. BELL-SHARPE: containing Genealogical and Some Biographical Sketches and Illustrations on … Allied Families to BELL: ATTMORE, EDWARDS, GEORGE, SAUSSAT, RAKESTRAW, STROOP, STULL, ZANE… Unpublished typescript, Dallas, TX (online at HeritageQuest at Genealogy.com). See excerpt.

14. F. Edward Wright. 1994. Early Records of the First Reformed Church of Philadelphia. Vol. 1: 1748-1780; Vol. 2, 1781-89. Family Line Publ., Westminster, MD (Broderbund CD-166):

BAPTISMS BY THE REV. CASPER WEYBERG, 1781 - 1789...
John, son of Martin Wall and Christine, b. Aug. 14, 1784, bapt. Sept. 26, 1784. Spon: John Strub and Elizabeth Stocky...

This sponsor may or may not be our subject.

15. Daughters of the American Revolution of Ohio, compilers. 1929. The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio. F. J. Heer Printing Co., Columbus, OH (online at HeritageQuest at Genealogy.com):

p. 335 STROUP, JOHN, Madison co
One of the four who fought in Rev; W B L Wt 40923-160-55 is for "Widow of invalid pensr wounded at Brandywine; mar Hannah Wintworth (?) 7-2-1801; soldier d 1831 in Phila Pa ?" Was a native of Pa. Mar Mary Steel (d 11-4-1835); soldr d 2-4-1832; bur rear of Maxey schoolhouse Madison co O. Inscript cop 1924: "__roup, __eb 4 1832 ___y." By side is stone "In memory of Mary wf of John Stroup d Nov 4 1835 æ 68 yrs. Came to Chillicothe O 1799; movd to Madison co O 1805; mentioned in Clarke co Hist. Rept by Capt Wm Hendricks chpt; Mrs Fred Hoch."

The compilers of this volume go out of their way to make it appear as though the volume is a primary source with the official imprimatur of the U.S. Government. In point of fact, it is a mostly undocumented secondary source. Here they have mixed up two different John STROUPs, which is clearly evident from the pension record because the John STROUP who married Hannah WINTWORTH in 1801 in Philadelphia also died in Philadelphia, in 1831 (the Battle of Brandywine was fought on 11 Sep 1777 about 25 miles southwest of Philadelphia, in Chester Co., PA). The John STROUP who married Mary STEELE / STEELY was in Kentucky by 1796, in Ohio by 1799, and died in Ohio in 1832 as is clearly shown in this very sketch. ["W B L Wt" apparently stands for "Bounty Land Warrant."]

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

17. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: AF - Ancestral File (online at FamilySearch.org).

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