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

Joshua STROUP Spouse: Maria LENT Marriage: 20 Aug 1837, Marion, Ohio Source: Marriage Records, 1824-1964. Ohio. Probate Court (Marion County)

1b.  Allen L. Potts.  Marion County, Ohio, Probate Court Marriage Records, Vols. I-XII, 1824-1902 (online at Heritage Pursuit):

Stroup, Joshua

Zent, Mariah

8/20/1837

JP Hugh McClua

2.  1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #9 of 14; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1840

OH

Marion [now Morrow] Co.

Gilead Twp.

pp. 144B-145A

Ln. 10

Stroup Joshua

000 010 - 100 010

0100000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	20-29	1810-1820	= Joshua (b. 1812/3)
1 female	4 or under	1835-1840	= Elizabeth (b. 1837)
1 female	20-29	1810-1820	= Maria (b. 1816/7)
1	person employed in agriculture

Listed next to John ZENT (æ 40-50), who is next to George ZENT (æ 20-30).

3.  1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #22-23 of 30):  Canaan Twp., Morrow Co., OH, Roll M432_716 (Book 1), pp. 373B-374B, 350/352, enumerated 27 Jul 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Joshua Stroop	37	M		Farmer		Va
Maria Stroop	33	F				O
Elizabeth Stroop	13	F				O
William Vanati	18	M				O
Allen Tent	6	M				O

Also in Morrow County:  Joshua's presumed father, Henry STRUPE / STROOP, who is listed three households from the John & Elizabeth (DORSEY) ZENT family, with whom three VANNATI children are living.

4.  1860 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #24-25 of 34):  South Bloomingville P.O., Benton Twp., Hocking Co., OH, Roll M653_988, pp. 58A-58B PN 115-116, 815/802, enumerated 13 Jul 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Joshua Stroope	50	M		com Laborer		150	Ohio
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Ellen      "	48	F					Ohio
Elizabeth  "	21	F					"

5.  1870 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #7 of 37):  Logan P.O., Benton Twp., Hocking Co., OH, Roll M593_1223, p. 379A, PN 7, 54/54, enumerated 30 Jun 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Stroop Joshua	57	M	W	Farmer	600	500	Virginia
______ Elizabeth	58	F	W	Keeping House			Ohio

6.  1880 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #26 of 33 — indexed "John Stroop"):  Benton Twp., Hocking Co., OH, Roll T9_1033 (Book 2), p. 13B, PN 26, SD 4, ED 59, enumerated 22/23 Jun 1880, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1880 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1880:  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	8	10	13	22	23	24	25	26
240	258	Stroope Joshua	W	M	66		/	Farmer	/	/	OH	OH	OH
		_______ Ellen	W	F	44	Dau	/	keeping house			"	"	"

Someone has written over every entry on the page in a darker pen.  I could just make out that the enumerator had originally written "Stroope Joshua," then it was over-written with "Stroop John."  Joshua was born in VA, not OH.  Ellen is his wife, not his daughter, and she should be 68, not 44.

7.  1890 Census:  the 1890 Census Population Schedules were destroyed.