Rachel STROPE

  General Notes:

1830 BIRTH of Rachel Strope

According to the 1900 census, Rachel was born in "May, 1830"

1830 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (It is possible Rachel is the female designated "under age 5" in the household of Thomas "Stroup")

1840 DEATH of grandfather, William Allum

1840 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (Rachel would have been in the household of her father, Thomas "Strop")

1848 DEATH of father, Thomas Strope, Sr.

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Aleppo Township (October 15) ("Rachell," age 19, is in the household of her widowed mother Sarah)

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Springfield Township, P. O. New Freeport (September 3) ("Rachel," age 30, "Home Domestic," is in the household of her mother "Sarah," age 70, whose occupation was "Spinning and weaving"; also in the household were "Sarah J.," age 4; and "Susan," age 2)

1870 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Springhill Township, P. O. Rogersville ("Rachel," age 30, "Home Domestic," is in the household of Sarah Strope. Presumably, this is Sarah's daughter Rachel, although Rachel would actually have been age 40 in 1870)

1876 DEATH of mother, Sarah (Allum) Strope

MARRIAGE ...

1880 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Aleppo Township ("Rachel," age 50, is "Servant" in the household of Joseph and Emaline Whitlach) (Rachel's married name was Phillips, but she is "Phillip" in some census indexes)

1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Aleppo Township ("Rachel," age 70, widow, born "May, 1830"; in her household is her nephew, "John Strope," age 36, born "March, 1864," occupation "Farmer")


Rachel passed on after 1900 and perhaps before 1910

Rachel married Mr. PHILLIPS.