Sarah ALLUM

  General Notes:

Photo: Still readable is this old, upright stone for Sarah (Allum) Strope, ca 1789-1876. We know she died in 1876, and her stone tells us she died at "87 years." She outlived her husband, Thomas Strope, Sr., by almost 30 years.
Credit: Greene County, Pennsylvania Cemeteries CD No. 4 by James Fordyce, 2003


Sarah was named in the will of her father, William Allum. Sarah's husband Thomas was a farmer.


1789 BIRTH (approximate) for Sarah Allum

(In 1789 in New York City, George Washington was unanimously selected by members of the Electoral College to become the country's first President; the first inaugural ball was held. John Adams was Vice President. Jefferson chose a Cabinet that included Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, Alexander Hamilton and Edmund Randolph. Knox became the country's first Secretary of War, Hamilton head of the Treasury, and Randolph, Attorney General. Jefferson was head of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Congress voted to create the United States Army to be made up of 1,000 enlisted men and officers with terms of service, pay schedules and uniforms. The Federal Judiciary Act was passed creating 3 circuit courts, 13 district courts and a Supreme Court. The First Tariff Act was passed setting taxes on certain imports and giving tax breaks on others. Already, twelve amendments to the Constitution were created awaiting ratification by the states. Potomac River land was ceded, including Alexandria, for a national capital.)

1790 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Bethlehem Township (with parents)

1800 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Bethlehem Township (with parents)

1810 CENSUS, William Allum family not located

1813 SURVEYof land in Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, for Sarah's father, William Allum, adjacent to land owned by Sarah's future husband, Thomas Strope, Sr.

1820 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (likely Sarah is the female 26-45 in the household of her "Allims" parents)

1823 MARRIAGE (approximate) of Sarah Allum and widower Thomas Strope, Sr., neighbor to the William Allum family

1820-1830 DEATH of mother, first wife of William Allum

1830 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township ("Stroup")

1840 DEATH of father, William Allum

1840 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township ("Strop")

1848 DEATH of husband, Thomas Strope, Sr.

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Aleppo Township ("Sarah," age 55, children "Daniel," age 22, "Laborer"; "Rachell," age 19 and "Charles," 10)

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Springfield Township, P. O. New Freeport ("Sarah," age 70, occupation "Spinning and weaving," is in her own household with "Rachel," age 30, "Home Domestic"; "Sarah J.," age 4; and "Susan," age 2)

1870 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Springhill Township, P. O. Rogersville ("Sarah," age 78, is in the household of her son Thomas and his wife Eliza)

1876 DEATH, Sarah (Allum) Strope "at 87 years" (Bosworth-Strope Cemetery record)

(In 1876, Ulysses S. Grant served the last year of his two terms as President of the United States. Colorado became the nation's 38th state. In the Dakota Territory, George Armstrong Custer led 265 troopers into battle with the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians on the banks of the Little Big Horn River; we know the outcome. Also in Dakota Territory, "Wild Bill" Hickock was gunned down at a saloon in Deadwood, shot in the back by Jack McCall who sought to assure his reputation as a gun fighter. The James and Younger gangs rode into Minnesota to rob the Northfield Bank. In Massachusetts, at Boston, Alexander Graham Bell achieved the first electronic human voice transmission with the aid of his assistant, Thomas Watson. Mark Twain's TOM SAWYER was published. Melvil Dewey created the Dewey Decimal System to classify library books. A huge exposition at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania celebrated the nation's 100th anniversary. Rutherford B. Hayes was elected to succeed Grant; the future President Hayes won the election over Samuel J. Tilden of New York by just one vote!)



In an 1868 inventory after Charles W. Allum's death, Thomas Strope was among those who owed money to Charles; the two men were brothers-in-law.

Sarah married Thomas STROPE Sr. before 1824 in (Probably) Greene County, Pennsylvania. (Thomas STROPE Sr. was born in 1760-1765 and died in 1848 in Greene County, Pennsylvania.)