Person:William Stoops (2)

"Philip and William Stoops, brothers, came as Pioneers from Pennsylvania and settled in Nicholas County, Kentucky... William Stoops, the Pioneer, was married three times. By first wife [Mary Ann Brown] had five sons -- Michael, Moses, William, John and James and four daughters -- Betsy, Polly, Nancy and Judy. By second wife one son Hugh and three daughters - Margaret, Ailsie and Serelda. By third wife [Sarah Warren] two daughters -- Maria and Hester. Betsy married William Linn -- Nancy married Timothy Linn. Polly married first John Shankland and second John W. Shankland, a cousin of the former. Judy married Andy Shankland. Michael, Moses, Hugh, Ailsie, and Serelda went to Ohio and were lost to sight. William and James went to Ripley County, Indiana. William married Susan Myers and second widow Gray. James married Polly Shankland, daughter of John Shankland and sister of Benjamin Shankland, my grandfather. James was a Methodist preacher. John married, second, Rose Kephart -- went to Marion Co., Indiana. Margaret married William Myers and when he died moved with children to Illinois. Maria married Harvey Adkins -- had two children -- both died before her. Hester married James Herrin." {Transcription of letter from A. B. Stoops, dated 11 Mar 1890, in the research of Albert B. Shankland, citing Mrs. Lizzie (Stoops) Pitman as owner of letter; copy in possession of researcher S. B. Fitting}

 "The father of these children [John Stoops] died in 1855 at the age of sixty-three years, his birth having occurred in Pennsylvania. The paternal grandfather, William Stoops, was also a Pennsylvanian, born in 1750 and died in Kentucky about 1825, having been a soldier in the Revolution." {'Philip Stoops', <http://www.countyhistory.com/doc.marion/533.htm>}
 According to several sources, William had 13 children with Mary Ann Brown: 
     Sarah 1786-  m. John Hays.
     John (1787-abt 1854 IN) m. Nancy James, then Rosanna Kephart; emigrated to Marion Co Indiana  about 1833. 
    Moses Brown 1789- abt 1855, m. Rebecca Porter, emigrated to Clay Co., Indiana. 
    Phillip 1791-1880, m. Elizabeth Vanderlin. 
    Elizabeth, 1792- aft 1850, m. William Linn (or Lynn). 
    William 1794- , m. Susan Meyers (or Myers), m Zerelda Gray, emigrated to Ripley Co., Indiana
    Michael 1794-1874 m. Eleanor Van Sickle, Susannah Gore, and Sarah Gore, emigrated to OH then Fulton Co., IL. 
    James David, 1798-1880, m. Mary 'Polly' Shankland. 
    Samuel 1799- . 
    Robert 1800-1867, m1 Susanna Wilson, m2 Paulina McClung. 
    Mary, 1802- , m. John Shankland, then his nephew John Wolfe Shankland. 
    Nancy Agnes, 1803-1863, m. Timothy Linn. 
    Judith, 1805-1882 IL, m. Andrew Gibb Shankland.
 He had 5 children by his second wife Elizabeth [last name unknown]: 
            Anna, 1810-1855, m. Jonah Lindsey
           Hugh (1812-1878) m. Elizabeth Carr in Cincinnati, died in Texas Co., Missouri, preacher; 
           Alicia 1813- 
           Margaret 1814-  m. William Myers 
           Serelda 1817
 He had 2 children by his third wife Sarah Warren, m. 1818:  
          Hester 1820-  m. James Herrin 
          Maria 1823-  m. Harvey Atkins/Adkins.
 According to 'Early Days', Col. William Stoops was a shoemaker by trade. {'Early Days: Articles and stories of the Upper Riverways by J.L. Stoops', by Michael Stoops, <http://members.aol.com/micron612/EarlyDays.html>, 23 Nov 2007}

1.   Nancy Curtis Eurich. The Curtis's and the Eurich's. (<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nceurich/index.htm>).