Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....ROOP, JOHN K.  October 20 1839 - 
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Author: S. Emmett Lucas, Jr.
JOHN K. ROOP, leading merchant, Roopville, Carroll Co., Ga., was born in Union 
district, South Carolina, Oct. 20, 1839. He was reared on a farm, and what 
schooling he had was obtained at the common country schools of that. period.. 
When grown he taught school some himself. In 1861, when the civil war reached 
the fighting point, he enlisted for six months in_Company D (Capt J. R. 
Thomason); First Georgia Regiment, and at the end of that time he enlisted in 
a cavalry company in Phillips' Legion, and remained in the service until the 
surrender. While in the service he did a great deal of scouting, 
notwithstanding which he participated in many of the hardest-fought battles of 
the war, among them: Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Culpeper 
courthouse, Mine Run, etc. He was also a considerable time with Gen. Wade 
Hampton. As was the case with many thousands he came out of the war without 
anything but its sad experience, and entered upon the work of reconstruction 
in Carroll county. In 1880 he opened a store, building the first house on the 
spot;
established a mill in 1874 and has succeeded in securing a large and 
profitable trade. Population increased, and a post-office being wanted one was 
established in 1881 and named "Roopville," for the founder of the embryo town. 
H_ served as justice of the peace at Roopville for eight years, and when the 
board of county commissioners was organized in 1886 he was elected a member 
and continued in office six years, until 1892. He has been solicited to become 
a candidate for the general assembly, but has always refused, as he craved no 
political honors. Mr. Roop was married in 1872 to Miss Eliza Moore (born in 
Henry county), daughter of W. H. and Sarah (Barnes) Moore, natives of Georgia. 
Her grandfather, Joshua Moore, was an early settler in Henry county. Mr. and 
Mrs. Roop have had born to them five children: Nora L., wife of Dr. B. J. 
Veal; Henry A., Charles c., Bessie and Fannie. Mr. Roop was a prominent member
of the Farmers' alliance and president of the Carroll county organization. He 
is a master Mason, and has been worshipful master of his lodge many years. He 
and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist church. Beginning with nothing 
at the close of the war, he has become the leading merchant in his part of the 
county; has acquired some two thousand acres of fine land, and is recognized 
as one of the most influential citizens of Carroll county.


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