From Susan Gates Davis

 

 

St. Joseph Valley Register, January 6, 1876:
Mrs. Susannah Stroup.
   Susannah, wife of Daniel B. Stroup, of Portage Prairie, died at the family residence, on Monday, December 27th, 1875, aged thirty-six years and four days.
   The deceased was born December 23, 1839, in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, and in 1860 was married to her now bereaved husband, to which union five children have been born, and moved to St. Joseph county in 1865.  Four sisters and five brothers of the deceased now reside in Pennsylvania.  The deceased was an earnest christian and a consistent member of the United Brethren church.
   The funeral services, conducted by Rev. H.A. Gobin, at the German Baptist church, on Portage Prairie, was largely attended, the church being filled with friends of the family, and the long procession to the grave, where the interment was conducted according to the beautiful form of the Grange, attested the high esteem in which the deceased was held by the community.