| George H. STROOPE
Sarah RAY Rachael LUSK Martha COKER Mary (__?__) BARTLETT Mahala EATON |
| Did our subject really have five wives?! Or did some other George STROOPE marry the later wives? |
| Husband: George H. STROOPE / STROOP
Birth: 1760-65, VA Death: 15 Jan 1840, Clark Co., AR Father: Jacob STROOPE I Mother: Anna Maria TROUTMAN |
| Marriage-1: 31 Mar 1789, Nelson Co., KY |
| Wife-1: Sarah RAY
Birth: by 1765 Death: bef. 1812 Father: John? RAY / RAYE Mother: Jane __?__ Some secondary sources show Sarah as John P's mother, but it would have been biologically impossible for her to have birthed a child in 1827/8 when she would have been in her mid-50s, even if she hadn't died before 1812! |
| Marriage-2: 27 Feb 1812, Ouachita Pr., LA |
| Wife-2: Rachael LUSK
Birth: 1790-1800 |
| Marriage-3: 1830 |
| Wife-3: Martha COKER |
| Marriage-4: 5 Mar 1834, Clark Co., AR |
| Wife-4: Mary __?__
Other Spouse: m1. Mr. BARTLETT |
| Marriage-5: 25 Dec 1835, Clark Co., AR |
| Wife-5: Mahala EATON |
| Children with Sarah RAY: |
| 1. Nancy
STROOPE, b. 1789/90
2. Charles STROOPE, ca. 1790 3. Jacob STROOPE III, b. 12 Apr 1792, Nelson Co., KY 4. Henry STROOPE, b. 1809/10, LA {40, LA} |
| Child with Rachael LUSK: |
| 5. John P. STROOPE, b. 1827/8, Clark Co., Ark. Terr. {22, AR} — not the John Percy STROOPE who married Julia Ann ASHBROOK |
| Data in braces are {age,
birthplace} from the 1850 Census.
Keywords for search engines: USA, United States, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Virginia |
| Sources (n.b., Kentucky was formed
from Virginia in 1792; Arkansas Territory was formed in 1819 from Missouri
Territory; Arkansas became a state in 1836):
1a. Jordan R. Dodd, ed. 1993. Kentucky Marriages: Early to 1850. Liahona Research, Orem, UT (Broderbund CD-229):
1b. Jordan R. Dodd, et al. 19xx. Early American Marriages: Louisiana to 1850. Precision Indexing Publ., Bountiful, UT (online at Ancestry.com):
1c. Jordan R. Dodd, ed. c1990. Arkansas Marriages: Early to 1850. Precision Indexing Publ., Bountiful, UT (online at Ancestry.com):
1c. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).
2. 1790 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): not found, but the entire Virginia (and, thus, Kentucky) census was destroyed. 3. Anon. 1991. The 1795 Census of Kentucky [as constructed from tax lists]. T.L.C. Genealogy, Miami Beach, FL (said to include every extant tax list from every county existing in the state of Kentucky in 1795): not found, not unless he is the Henry STROOPS in Jefferson County. 4. 1800 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): not found, but the entire Kentucky census was destroyed; there was no 1800 Louisiana census. 5a. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1810 (Broderbund CD-313). Please see my WARNING regarding use of this database (the numerical data have the genders switched and no slave or "other person" data are given).
5b. 1810 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #6 of 9; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
6. 1820 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): not found, which means he was presumably in Arkansas Territory because there was no census in 1820 in Arkansas Territory while there was one in Louisiana. 7. 1830 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #1-2 of 6; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
8. 1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): not found. 9. Ronald V. Jackson. 1999. Arkansas Census, 1819-70. Accelerated Indexing Systems (online at Ancestry.com):
10. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com). |
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