Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Stroup, Jacob January 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patty Theurer seymour784@yahoo.com August 14, 2005, 1:27 am Payette Enterprise, Payette, Idaho, February 5, 1925 Payette Enterprise Payette, Idaho Feb. 5, 1925 PIONEER CITIZEN LAID TO REST Jacob Stroup, pioneer citizen of the Payette Valley, passed away at his home in Ontario, Oregon at 3:30 a.m., January 28th, 1925, after a lingering illness of many months incident to his advanced age. Had he lived until February 11th, he would have reached his 90th year, having been born on February 11, 1835, at Tippecanue, Indiana. When quite young he moved with his parents to Mercer county, Illinois, where he grew to manhood. After making several trips west he settled in Missouri, where on the 2nd of September, 1872, he was married to Susan Draper, who survives him. Previous to that date he had crossed the plains no less than five times with other hardy and venturesome men of those days who faced the dangers of hardships incident to the transportation of supplies necessary for the civilization then springing up on the western frontier. In March, 1873, Mr. and Mrs. Stroup left their home in Missouri, expecting to eventually establish a residence somewhere in Washington. They came as far as Ogden, Utah, by rail (that then being the end of the railroad,) where they purchased an emigrant outfit and continued their journey overland to the Payette valley, where they secured a quarter-section of land from the government by pre-emption and later another quarter section by homestead on Washoe bottom, where they made their home continuously until 1910, moving at that time to Caldwell where they purchased a home. In 1913 they moved to Ontario, where they also purchased a home. After living three years in Ontario they came back to the old home in Washoe where they resided until 1920, when they again took up their residence in their Ontario home where Mr. Stroup passed away on the morning of January 28, 1925. To Mr. and Mrs. Stroup eight children were born, one son, Jacob R. Stroup, died in 1906. The surviving Payette Enterprise Payette, Idaho Feb. 5, 1925 PIONEER CITIZEN LAID TO REST Jacob Stroup, pioneer citizen of the Payette Valley, passed away at his home in Ontario, Oregon at 3:30 a.m., January 28th, 1925, after a lingering illness of many months incident to his advanced age. Had he lived until February 11th, he would have reached his 90th year, having been born on February 11, 1835, at Tippecanue, Indiana. When quite young he moved with his parents to Mercer county, Illinois, where he grew to manhood. After making several trips west he settled in Missouri, where on the 2nd of September, 1872, he was married to Susan Draper, who survives him. Previous to that date he had crossed the plains no less than five times with other hardy and venturesome men of those days who faced the dangers of hardships incident to the transportation of supplies necessary for the civilization then springing up on the western frontier. In March, 1873, Mr. and Mrs. Stroup left their home in Missouri, expecting to eventually establish a residence somewhere in Washington. They came as far as Ogden, Utah, by rail (that then being the end of the railroad,) where they purchased an emigrant outfit and continued their journey overland to the Payette valley, where they secured a quarter-section of land from the government by pre-emption and later another quarter section by homestead on Washoe bottom, where they made their home continuously until 1910, moving at that time to Caldwell where they purchased a home. In 1913 they moved to Ontario, where they also purchased a home. After living three years in Ontario they came back to the old home in Washoe where they resided until 1920, when they again took up their residence in their Ontario home where Mr. Stroup passed away on the morning of January 28, 1925. To Mr. and Mrs. Stroup eight children were born, one son, Jacob R. Stroup, died in 1906. The surviving Payette Enterprise Payette, Idaho Feb. 5, 1925 PIONEER CITIZEN LAID TO REST Jacob Stroup, pioneer citizen of the Payette Valley, passed away at his home in Ontario, Oregon at 3:30 a.m., January 28th, 1925, after a lingering illness of many months incident to his advanced age. Had he lived until February 11th, he would have reached his 90th year, having been born on February 11, 1835, at Tippecanue, Indiana. When quite young he moved with his parents to Mercer county, Illinois, where he grew to manhood. After making several trips west he settled in Missouri, where on the 2nd of September, 1872, he was married to Susan Draper, who survives him. Previous to that date he had crossed the plains no less than five times with other hardy and venturesome men of those days who faced the dangers of hardships incident to the transportation of supplies necessary for the civilization then springing up on the western frontier. In March, 1873, Mr. and Mrs. Stroup left their home in Missouri, expecting to eventually establish a residence somewhere in Washington. They came as far as Ogden, Utah, by rail (that then being the end of the railroad,) where they purchased an emigrant outfit and continued their journey overland to the Payette valley, where they secured a quarter-section of land from the government by pre-emption and later another quarter section by homestead on Washoe bottom, where they made their home continuously until 1910, moving at that time to Caldwell where they purchased a home. In 1913 they moved to Ontario, where they also purchased a home. After living three years in Ontario they came back to the old home in Washoe where they resided until 1920, when they again took up their residence in their Ontario home where Mr. Stroup passed away on the morning of January 28, 1925. To Mr. and Mrs. Stroup eight children were born, one son, Jacob R. Stroup, died in 1906. The surviving children are: A. A. Stroup, Payette; Mrs. Jessie McCarthy and Frances Jefferies of Ontario, Mrs. Alta Coughanour of Payette, Guy Stroup of Ontario and S. C. Stroup, living on the old home place at Washoe. The deceased is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Ellen Duncan of Spokane, Wash., 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. During Mr. Stroup’s long residence in this community he took a deep interest in all public affairs, serving for many years on the school board of Washoe and contributing in no small degree to the advancement of educational and other interests looking to the development of good citizenship. Mr. Stroup was made a Mason at Carthage, Mo., more than 60 years ago. He became a charter member of Washoe Lodge No. 28, A. F. & A. M., at Payette, January 30th, 1892. He was also a Royal Arch Mason, having become a charter member of Payette Chapter No. 8, by affiliation when the same was instituted November 29, 1892. To know him well and intimately, as one of his Masonic brothers expressed it, “It was necessary to have visited him in his home in the days when he patiently awaited the final summons and to have listened to the wonderfully interesting stories he related of the early pioneer days when the courage of men to “carry on” was stimulated by an optomism that was undaunted by adversity or attending hardships. Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at the Masonic Temple in Payette, where may of the old friends of the deceased were permitted to view the remains, after which the interment was conducted with the last Masonic rites in Riverside cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/obits/s/stroup367gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/idfiles/ File size: 8.0 Kb