Re: Benjamin Sloop 1840 MO
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Re: Benjamin Sloop 1840 MO
Janet Sherman 8/27/05
The dates are close.I don't know the names of the children of Nicholas, but the number seems right and I do know that there was a Nicholas and his brother Benjamin Sloop who farmed in Schuyler County in the 1840's.
I lived in Schuyler County until I was 12 years old.My great-great grandfather was Benjamin Sloop.He had an older brother named Nicholas.Family stories say there was a third brother who was lost upon arrival in the USA and never heard from again.They traveled to Jackson County Ohio and then to Canton, Missouri. The two brothers came to Schuyler County in the 1840 and cleared some land for a homestead over a summer.They built a cabin and then Nicholas returned to Canton to find a wife.Benjamin stayed in the cabin with a gun and dog and lived by hunting through the first winter.
Nicholas married a woman named Dresher and the husband and wife came to the cabin in the spring.The three of them worked to clear more land for another homestead and cabin and that next winter Benjamin returned to Canton while Nicholas and his wife spent the winter in Schuyler County.Benjamin married Mary Dresher (a sister of the wife of Nicholas) that winter.In the spring he returned to Schuyler County.Benjamin and Mary had two children - a boy and girl.The boy, John Sloop, was my great-grandfather.Family stories say he was a mule skinner in the civil war as a teenager.He lived in Queen City in a house that was in my family until the 1980's.
Benjamin died a relatively young man.I don't think it was known where he was buried.His widow remarried and had 7 or 8 more children.I know my grandfather still visited with some of his half cousins or step cousins who lived in the area.
John Sloop, Benjamin's son, married Mary Miller and they had 8 children and adopted a cousin.
My grandfather's name was Pearl Alvin Sloop.He lived in Queen City in Schuyler County his entire life.He was born in 1885 and died in 1975.He had a son, my dad, named John Bruce Sloop and a daughter Hilda, who married George McCuskey.My dad was born in 1915 and died in 1957.My aunt was born in 1919 (I thin) and died in 1979.
My dad had two sons, me (Robert Alvin Sloop) and David Bruce Sloop.I was born in 1947 and my brother was born in 1949.My brother farmed in Schuyler County.He was killed in 2001.
When my mother married my father in 1946, she indicated she was the 26th Mrs. Sloop in and around Queen City.Today there is one.As a child, I knew several people who were descended from Nicholas Sloop including Howard and Russell Sloop who ran the local hardware store.
I'm sure that the Nicholas you mentioned is the brother of Benjamin, my great-great grandfather.I have seen and may actually have old Schuyler County Maps that show the homesteads of the two brothers close to each other.The farms were a short distance from a Lutheran Church located the Germania community.The time frame of the 1840's matches my grandfather's stories and a history of Schuyler County that I looked at once.
I notice that you list a son of Nicholas named Benjamin.The Benjamin's that I refer to in this discussion was a brother of Nicholas, not his son.
Another person who you might contact for more information is Rex Sloop.He was my dad's first cousin. (His father William Sloop was another of John's children and Benjamin's grandchildren.)Rex is in his 90's and lives in Queen City, MO.I doubt if Rex uses email, but you can probably send him a letter to Rex Sloop, Queen City, MO 63561 and I think it would get to him.
I think many of the people you mentioned are buried in the Queen City Cemetary or by the Germania church.
If you have any specific questions, my half-brother lives in Keokuk, Iowa (about 80 miles from Queen City) and has done some research.He is not a Sloop, but he looks up stuff that he thinks might interest me.If I can help you with any questions, please let me know.