Edith May Baker Stroup

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Obituary- Stroup, Edith 1

Mrs. S.H. Stroup Dead.
A shock comes to every vicinity when it is announced from house to house that one of its members has passed into the great beyond. And so it was in the community of Rossville last Sunday, January 2nd, when word was passed around that Mrs. "Doc" Stroup was dead. It was generally known that Mrs. Stroup was very ill - but it was understood that she was improving and would get well. But during one of those stormy spells she took a severe cold which gave her a back-set from which she never recovered.

Mrs. Stroup, nee Edith Baker, was well known in and about Rossville, because most of her short life of a little more than twenty-three years had been lived here. She was born at St. Marys, April 17, 1886. At the age of eleven she united with the Methodist Church and seven years later while she was at Miami, Indian Territory, she became a member of the Christian Church and continued to be a member of that Church until her death. On September 20th, 1905 she was married to Mr. Scott Hamilton Stroup. On Sunday, January 2nd 1910, the grim reaper claimed here, taking away from...
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[From The Rossville Reporter, January 7, 1910]

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