Re: Searching for Stradley-Roe connection
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Re: Searching for Stradley-Roe connection
Margaret Marquis 2/12/04
Jeannie, I don't know whether you are still doing research on the Roe family. I hadn't been to this site in a long time.
The connection between the Roe and Stradley families is this:
Peter Stradley, one of the older sons of John Stradley, the first in our line of Stradleys (see one of my other posts in this thread), was married to Ann Roe. They came to SC in 1820 (aboard a ship named Susan). They joined her family in the Reedy Creek area on the north side of what is today Greenville, SC. They had a son, possibly after arriving. Ann died and Peter left his son with Ann's family to seek a place in the Asheville, NC area. Apparently this child remained with his uncle.
Peter later remarried - Naomi Patton - whose father was a Rev. War veteran (Samuel Patton). Several of Peter's brothers came to NC - Thomas (wife - Mary) who was the first pastor of what has become First Baptist Church of Asheville; James (married Naomi's sister Elizabeth) - they later removed to Iredell County, NC; perhaps one other (can't remember at the moment). Later a nephew of these men came to the US and settled elsewhere (Ohio, I think).
I hope that helps with the Roe-Stradley connection for you.
All of these people (Roes and Stradleys) seem to have been members of a Baptist chapel in England and most became strong workers in Baptist churches in SC and in Asheville and Hendersonville, NC.