Thomas Stribling, the progenitor of the South Carolina branch of the family, was undoubtedly the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Taliaferro Stribling. . . . While I have no positive proof of this connection, the following facts seem to indicate its certainty. Mr. J. W. Stribling of Seneca, S. C., writes that he has been unable to trace his ancestors further back than to Thomas Stribling who emigrated from Berryville, Va., to Union County, S. C. The uniform tradition among the family of Rear Admiral Cornelius Stribling has been that this Thomas Stribling, said to have been of Swedish and Welsh descent (?), "left Berryville, then Battletown, when quite young, his father giving him a horse, gun and colored man, with which to seek his fortune in the world"; and that he finally settled in South Carolina. Dr. S. S. Neill . . . , who was always considered an authority in such matters, wrote some years before his death that Taliaferro Stribling . . . , though he did not know that this was his name, had a brother who came with him and his father from Prince William County to Frederick County, and who afterwards removed to South Carolina and became the ancestor of the Striblings of that State. One thing is certain, that the members of the two branches who have been acquainted have always claimed a close kinship with one another. . . .
It can be safely said, therefore, that Thomas Stribling, born in Prince William County about 1730, moved first to Frederick County and thence, shortly after 1750, to South Carolina, where he settled on Seneca River in what is now Anderson County. He afterwards married Nancy Kincheloe, said to have been of English and Irish parentage. She may have been a sister or a daughter of Cornelius Kincheloe (son of John Kincheloe), who was Surveyor of Prince William County in 1768; for his name occurs frequently among her descendants. They had a family of at least four children,?Thomas, Jesse, Lucy (m. ? Trimmier), and Nancy (m. ? Tate). There was perhaps a fifth child, Sigismund, whose son John B. Stribling moved from South Carolina to Tennessee in 1834, and was the ancestor of Striblings now living at Clifton, Lawrenceburg and other places in that State. A history of Tennessee published in 1886 states that this John B. Stribling was "an own cousin of Commodore Cornelius K. Stribling". The names Sigismund, Casimir and Kincheloe occur in this branch of the family, indicating the connection with the other branches.
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