Two More Civil War Ancestors Discovered: Southern Unionist Served In Union Army

updated from 10-29-17 post: typo correction.

Stith J. Landtroop was the Uncle of our
John Daniel Littrell and Cassandra  Urban
was John’s grandfather.

Farmer  Cassandra Urban [age 36] and his brother-in-law, Stith J. Landtroop [age 16], enlisted in Company B of the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment. three days apart (February 3-6, 1864) in Pulaski, Tennessee.

Cassandra was described as 5’8” tall dark hair, dark eyes, and dark complexion. He is listed as deserting* in Mooresville, AL, on April 13, 1864, the same day he is also shown as ‘mustering in’ at Decatur, AL.

Stith is shown as deserting* in Rome, GA, on August 15, 1864 with his carbine and equipment.

*from Teaching History.org : “I have found that most of the men said to be deserters in the Adjutant General's reports by State and their CMSRs actually served honorably and were mustered out from a "second" regiment. I believe these men received permission to transfer but the adjutant for their "first" regiment simply failed to note the order.” this appears to be the case with Cassandra and Stith as they obviously didn’t desert.   GlennDL

Free State of Nickajack: 

Nickajack was made up of loosely defined regions of Alabama and Tennessee where popular sentiment remained loyal to the Union, and were decidedly anti-slavery. 

There had been increasing talk of secession by the politicians representing wealthy plantation owners in the Black Belt. Hill country residents in the Nickajack areas, however, were typically poor dirt-farmers and rarely slave owners. They believed a war of secession would be "a war for the rich, fought by the poor," and they wanted to have nothing to do with it.

Composed of parts of Southeast Tennessee and North Alabama, Nickajack was home to many Southern Unionists who resisted the yoke of the Confederacy and attempted to form their own state – to be called Nickajack – from parts of both states.

The residents of these parts of Alabama and Tennessee had little in common with the wealthier parts of the state. Plantations and slaves were scarce in the Nickajack region, as was agriculture like that of the central and southern parts of Alabama and the central and western parts of Tennessee. There was little support for secession or the Confederacy in the Nickajack region.

One in ten southern soldiers served in the Union Army.

Southern unionists were not threatened by Lincoln’s election but saw him more as a blank slate. They were willing to give him a chance as president and did not see the federal government as any threat to their property rights.

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Family Civil War Story:

All my life I have heard a story about how our male  ancestors had to hide in the woods during the day, come out to work the crops at night, and crawl under the house to be fed through the floor boards by the women folk, for fear of being discovered and forced to go off to war.

When I got older and started to do research on our family history I found several flaws in the story:

1. Virtually every southern family has such a Civil War story.
2. The story was always assumed to be about a Littrell ancestor, but our Littrell Ancestor (Eli Literal) did serve in the Confederacy for most of the war until his death at Tunnel Hill.
3. The children of this ancestor were two young to of ever been under threat of being forced to serve. Specifically our direct ancestor, Timmons Literal.

I approached Aunt Onene about my concerns and she was a little offended that I doubted the story. She emphasized that she heard the story many times from her grandmother Mary Catherine Urban Literal. This further complicated the story because Mary Catherine was not married to Timmons during the Civil War, both were too young, so it couldn’t be our Timmons. At the time we had no information on our Urban ancestors serving during the Civil War.

It wasn’t that I doubted Aunt Onene, I’m sure she heard the story from her grandmother, but I did start to think that she might be mistaken about which Grandmother. Her grandmother on her Ezell side of the family (Cynthia Poteet Ezell) was the spouse of a Civil War veteran,a southern unionist.

It has been my experience that most family tradition/myth/stories are factual in their nature, just absent of facts after being told so many times for so long. Another family story (an Ezell story) has been handed down for generations about four brothers (three Union and one Confederate) serving during the war. As it turns out the facts are that it was an Uncle and three nephews (two were brothers). So you see, factual, but with inaccurate facts.

The problem with the theory that it was Cynthia feeding her boys through the floorboards was that her oldest son was only 5 at the start of the war.

At this point I accepted the possibility that the story was more than likely about a non-direct family member. An Civil War family closely connected to Mary Catherine or Cynthia. That Onene did hear it from one of them, most likely Mary Catherine, and as the story was told it it became less and less accurate.

Until now. The discovery of above mentioned Stith and Cassandra and the information on the Nickajack region sheds new light on the story as follows:

1. Virtually every southern family has such a Civil War story: This observation is no less true than when pointed out above, but the story of the southern unionist in the Nickajack region corresponds to the enlistment of Stith and Cassandra.
2. The story was always assumed to be about a Littrell ancestor, but our Littrell Ancestor (Eli Literal) did serve in the Confederacy for most of the war until his death at Tunnel Hill: We rule out our Littrell ancestor because he enlisted in the Confederacy, meaning that his late age entry after years of not serving was less likely to be ideological. On the other hand with Stith and Cassandra (one was too old to be conscripted and the other too young) their decision to enlist in the northern army points towards an ideological motive. It would also point to them, at least Cassandra, having anti-slavery/secessionist motives.
3. The children of this ancestor were to young to have been under threat of being forced to serve. Specifically our direct ancestor, Timmons Literal: Mary Catherine is brought back into the story through her mother (Susannah) by her father and uncle. As an anti-slave/anti-secessionist, Cassandra’s late enlisting could have placed him under the floorboards for the preceding years of the war. The fact was that at age 36 he still couldn’t just come out of the woods to work the farm and claim that he was no longer subject to the draft. This may have forced him to face the fact that the war was not going to end without more civic participation.  

On the night of July 14,1862, Chris Sheats, spoke to a gathering of unionists telling his fellow Alabamians that the time had come join the army of the United States and fight the Confederacy “to hell and back again.”
“Tomorrow morning I am going to the Union army…I have slept in mountains, in caves and caverns, till I am become musty; my health and manhood are failing me, I will stay here no longer till I am enabled to dwell in quiet at home.”

Refusing to serve the confederacy was not a minor infraction. The penalty was anything from forced service to death. Cassandra would have had to remain hidden until the war was ended…one way or the other unless he enlisted.
In addition, Stith’s enlistment points at the presence of another ‘under the floorboard’ family member. Stith was too young to be conscripted, but if the draft age had not been expanded by this time (even for Cassandra) it would be soon. More importantly, Stith was the youngest of Susannah’s brothers. Four of her other Landtroop uncles could have been hiding under floorboards. Susannah had 4 young children when Cassandra enlisted, which would probably have made it impossible to farm and would have necessitated her moving back in with her father or brothers. Obviously the odds are very high that she experienced the floor board story at some level.

So as you can see it is most probable that Onene was right, she did here the story from her mother, Mary Catherine, but not about Mary Catherine’s husband, but about her father and uncles.

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The dangers of being a southern Unionist:

Henry Tucker, a private in Company B, of the 1st Alabama Cavalry, US,(the same company as Cassandra and Stith) was arrested by the Home Guard at his home in Marion County and tortured to death. He was tied to a tree, castrated, his eyes removed and his tongue cut out before he was literally skinned alive. He is buried at Hopewell Cemetery, south of Glen Allen, Ala.

But Tucker’s vicious death was avenged. Home Guard leader Stoke Roberts who personally directed the torture of Tucker, was eventually caught by a group of unionists near Winfield. They took a long iron spike and drove it through his mouth and out the back of his head and nailed him to the root of a big oak tree.

note:

In an irony not lost on modern historians, the Confederacy, created to preserve the principle of states’ rights over the primacy of the central government, instituted the draft by act of the new central government. Passed by the Confederate Congress in April 1862, it imposed manpower quotas on the individual states. Every able-bodied white male between the ages of 18 and 35 was subject to military service. Each state was required to produce a certain number of men for the Confederate armies. If a state’s quota wasn’t filled by volunteers, the men must be conscripted. In the hill counties of the Southern states, including north Alabama, volunteering fell far short of the numbers required. Frustrated at the refusal of these “tories” to see the light, Governor Frank Shorter of Alabama sent conscription parties, most composed of Home Guards, into the northern counties with leave and license to coerce their reluctant neighbors into the Confederate army. To refuse meant jail at the very least, and, quite possibly, death. To make matters worse, through much of the war north Alabama was occupied by the forces of both sides, and groups of bushwhackers, many of them deserters from both armies, sprang up to prey on the people. Farms were burned, livestock, goods and money looted, and murder was not uncommon. Little wonder, then, that these men, set upon in every conceivable way by their fellow citizens, chose to take up arms and return the favor.
                            History of the 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV
                             Knights of the Free State of Nickajack
                             The First Alabama Cavalry, United States Volunteers
                             By Steve Ross         

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excerpted from:

“Military Roll Call: The Littrell Family
of Mississippi County, Missouri”
Chapter 1. The Revolution. (click here)
also:  Littrell Family Veterans Video

and

"Walking Among The Stones: The Littrell Family of
Lawrence County, Tennessee & Mississippi County, Missouri
Chapter 2. The Lost Littrell Cemetery.

reposted from 11-5-2016:   75 / 122 / 185

Family Members Serving In the War Of 1812:

The John Lantroop described here is the
great-great-grand-Uncle of our grandpa John.

“Beginning in 1813, Virginians suffered from a British naval blockade of the Chesapeake Bay and from British troops plundering the countryside by the Bay and along the James, Rappahannock, and Potomac rivers. The Virginia militia deflected a British attempt to take Norfolk in 1813, and engaged British forces throughout the war.” http://www.historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1HB6_the-war-of-1812-winfield-scott_Dinwiddie-VA.html

Records show that John Lanthrop (Lantrip, Landtroop) of Dinwiddie County, Virginia served during the War of 1812:

• John Landtroop, Pvt. 83 Regiment (Scott’s) Virginia Militia, Roll Box 121, Microfilm M602   (The 83rd was a State Militia unit out of Dinwiddie County, Virginia)
• John Landtroop, Pvt., 6 Regiment Virginia Militia, Roll Box 121, Microfilm M602   (The 6th was a Federal Militia ???)

It appears that the two above may be two separate persons serving in two separate units, or perhaps the same person serving in two separate units. The limited information we have at the moment gives us no dates of service or discharge, but our John Lantrhop did come from Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

According to the Society of the War of 1812 in Virginia a company of the 83rd Regiment was attached to the 6th Virginia Regiment once the 83rd reached the Norfolk, Virginia area. For this reason many of the 83rd appeared on the muster/pay rolls of both units. They were on the state militia payroll for their duty with the 83rd and were on the Federal payroll when attached to the 6th.

note: see Battle of Norfolk:

Since John appears on the roles of both the 6th Regiment and the 83rd Regiment we can assume that he was at the formation of the 83rd in Dinwiddie County, marched with the unit to Norfolk, Virginia, where the commander of American forces was preparing for the siege/battle of Norfolk. In April 1813 the commander combined and divided all forces gathered there into 3 new regiments, one of which was the 6th Regiment. From this we know he was at the Battle of Norfolk. We do not know if the 6th Regiment was engaged in hostilities on Craney Island or the taking of Hampton,  or entrenched in the defense of Norfolk.

John had a son also named John, but he died in 1810.

From “Soldiers of the War of 1812 (Research Notes Number 19)” Library of Virginia:

“In his reminiscences, Captain Henry Brush described with precision what newly enlisted recruits wore during the War of 1812. Soldiers were outfitted for service in unbleached, tow-linen hunting shirts and trousers. On their heads they wore low-crown hats, on the left side of which were black cockades about two inches in diameter. A small silver eagle (about the size of a quarter) was fastened in the center of each cockade. Each soldier strapped a leather girdle around his waist, where he carried a tomahawk, a knife, a cartridge box, a bayonet, and a quart-sized tin canteen. He was armed with a musket and shouldered a linen knapsack with a blanket lashed to the top. Both were covered with oilcloth to protect them from wet weather. A soldier’s arms and pack together weighed about thirty-five pounds, and troops traveled an average of twenty-five miles a day on foot. Writing home to his wife, one soldier confessed:  “My limbs were so stiff and sore at the end of each day’s march that I could hardly walk… ”

A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or oval-shaped
symbol of distinctive colors which is usually worn on a hat.

Stationed at Fort Norfolk 1812 to 1815

The Virginia Militia line infantry were issued smooth bore flint lock muskets. The uniform for the line infantry was a blue hunting frock with red trim, and blue pants with red trim. The hat was a round hat with a cockade and a red and black plum. The men were required to provide their own uniform.

The Virginia Militia was the beginning of the Virginia National Guard. They were farmers, shop workers, and the average men of Virginia. Every male citizen of Virginia between the ages of 18 and 45 years old was required by law to be a member of the militia They would be assigned to a militia company within their county and would drill with this unit about once a month to learn how to be a militia soldier. The companies would be called up by the company captain's name and county. Everyone in that company would report for active duty. Each company would have about 100 men in the company.

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Note
Part of index to: Pay Rolls of Militia Entitled to Land Bounty Under the Act of Congress of Sept. 28, 1850 (Richmond, 1851) and: Muster Rolls of the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812 (Richmond, 1852) which supplements Pay Rolls. This collection is also available on microfilm.
War of 1812 pay rolls and muster rolls.

Muster Rolls, p.679
Pay Rolls, p.156
Muster Rolls, p.210

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The above is new information for the Littrell Family “Military Roll Call”. Once research is completed John will be added to MRC.

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The Landtroop Family: Two Brothers Go To War

William Landtroop and his sons are not our direct ancestors.
William is the great-granduncle of John Daniel Littrell.
(Martha & Peter Lantrop is John’s great-great-grandparents.)

William Landtroop is a son of Martha and probably Peter L. Lantrop of Dinwiddie County, Virginia. After Peter’s death Martha moved the family to the north-central border region of Madison/Limestone/Lauderdale County area. Among Martha’s children was our ancestor Stith Landtroop and his brother William.
William would move to Fayette County, Tennessee between 1840-1850, where he died before the Civil War. Several of his children moved westward following his death. We find his daughter, Sarah E. Landtroop and son, John P. Landtroop Landtroop in Arkansas in 1850, and Stith Jackson Landtroop, in Texas at the beginning of the War. We don’t know where John P. was at the outbreak of the war, but he enlisted into the 38^th Mississippi Infantry (mounted) Regiment in March of 1862. His company, Company “B” was made up of men recruited in Claiborne County, Mississippi. The unit was actually at Elkhorn Tavern (Battle of), also called the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas in March of 1862.
Because of his age at the time of his enlistment John would not have been drafted. His records indicate that he enlisted in the place of P. B. Flowers, who was drafted*.
Stith was a farmer in Texas when he enlisted into 27th Texas Cavalry Regiment.

Even though John and Stith were in different units both the 27th Texas Cavalry and the 38th Mississippi Infantry (mounted) were assigned to the western Mississippi area under General Van Dorn, and would fight in many of the same battles.

• Battle of Iuka (Mississippi) both.
• Battle of Corenth (Mississippi) both.
  Following the Battle of Corenth Stith was captured at the Battle of Hatchie Bridge (Davis). He was held for 9 days before being paroled, and rejoining his unit.
• Holly Springs (Mississippi) Stith
• Battle of Thompson’s Station, Stith
• Ft. Vicksburg (Mississippi) both. The 38^th Mississippi Infantry (mounted) Regiment was assigned to Snyders Bluff, north of Vicksburg on the Yazoo River. The Regiment was moved to cover the Jackson and Graveyard roads by the morning of May 18th. John P. was wounded on May 19th. By the end of the Vicksburg siege (July 4th) John P. was reported dead.
  The 27th Texas Cavalry was operating on the perimeter of the Vicksburg area and therefore does not appear to have been among the captured. Stith was discharged in January of 1864 by reason of a surgeons certificate of disability. He died in Texas, before the 1870 census.

TITLE: Siege of Vicksburg--13, 15, & 17 Corps, Commanded by Gen. U.S. Grant, assisted by the Navy under Admiral Porter--Surrender, July 4, 1863, by Kurz and Allison

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Landtroop-Luttrell Page / Landtroop Family Page

What's the difference? John Daniel Littrell’s grandmother was a Landtroop who’s ancestors go back to Virginia in the 1600s.

• So whenever we have information or articles on Landtroops that are the direct ancestors of John (and their immediate family) we will label them with the “Landtroop-Luttrell” tag.
• Whenever we have information or articles on any other Landtroops, not direct ancestors of John Littrell, we will label them with the “Landtroop Family Page” tag.

This way visitors to www.littrellfamily.org who are not descendants of John Littrell can narrow their focus when looking for missing Landtroop ancestors. It is suggested that all Landtroop researchers search both pages. Remember if a page contains a lot of articles/post it may cover more than one page… use the “older post” / “newer post” links to move among pages of the same label.
The labels, called “Index Labels” can be found under the article/post title or in the Table of contents section in the sidebars of the website. Use these labels to list and isolate multiple articles/post by those labels.

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Landtroop Family: Current Research Completed

We have traced our ancestry to the immigrant John Lantthorpe, who immigrated to America as an indentured servant in 1679. We have processed information into our files for 1107 descendants of John, including spouses, of which almost 400 of them are also descendants of John Daniel & Kizzie Comer Littrell. John Daniel Littrell  is the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of John Lantthorpe.

The first known immigrant to America was this John Lantthorpe, born in about 1647 and died about 1718.

On May 30^th, 1679 John was 'transported' along with eight (8) other indentured servants by Benjamin Hatcher and John Milner to their plantation on the James River in Henrico County, Virginia.

It would seem that Benjamin Hatcher and John Milner sold John Lantthorp's service to William Hatcher, son of Benjamin, as shown in a deposition made in court in 1680, Thomas Burton, Jr., age 16 testified he saw:

"Jno. Lantroppe strike a piece out of the head of Mr. Robert Woodson's canoe with an axe, and that ye deponent hear Mr. William Hatcher order ye said Lanthroppe and his other servants to split all ye canoes they found in the swamp."

The destruction of the canoes was evidently taken to discourage or stop poachers of fish or game on Hatcher's property.

It is not known when John Lantthrope fulfilled his period of indenture, but it appears to have been before 1714 which is when we find his first 'known' transactions as a free man (barring transgression, extensions of the original contract, or new contracts it is most probable that John gained his freedom long before this time):

• 1714 On 19 November a survey of 125 acres, South side of Second Swamp was made for John Lowthrop by Robert Boiling, Surveyor. This property was willed to his son John.

• 1714 John (1) is on the tax list for this year.

Most references point to the family being invested in the Second Swamp area. From several documents we know that John and his descendants settled in the Second Swamp area of Henrico County, Virginia. Henrico County would be sub-divided over the years into Prince George and Henrico, then Prince George into Prince George and Dinwiddie Counties. Dinwiddie County is where his descendants are found in 1812… still in the Second Swamp area.

From John's Will we know his children and wife's name was Margaret (maiden name unknown).

John died between 9 Jan. 1718 and 10 Mar. 1718. John, the immigrant, would have been 31 or 32 years of age when he arrived in this country in 1679, and 70 to 71 years of age at his death.

We do not know when John married or to whom, except her first name was Margaret.

1718 -John Lannthrope's Last Will and Testament (punctuation, spelling and grammar are kept as much as possible in their original form, but for clarity some spacing has been added) 

In the Name Of God Amen I John Lanthrop of Prince George County Do make and Design this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say First I bequeath by soul unto the hands of Almighty God believing remission of Sinns and everlasting Life by the merritts death and passion of Jesus Christ Lord and only Saviour.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Lanthrop all my Land on the North Side of Second Swamp to him and his heirs for ever, and to my son John all my land, the sough side of second swamp to him and his heirs forever -

Item. I do so desire that my Daughters shall have the privelege of tending ground on the plantation where on I now Live, keeping all things in repair, as Long as they keep themselves single

Item. the Bed where on I Lye I give to my Loving wife Margaret, and all the furniture belonging to it, but no more of beding, and but her third of the Land if she marries.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth one cow and calfe, and to my Daughter Mary and my Daughter Ann one cow and Calfe, and one sow and four piggs between them both,

Item. I give to my son Joseph one red Heifer with a white face and one — boor belonging to the black sow.

Item. I give the first fold that my Mair brings to my son John , and the old horse and mair I give for the use of the plantation amongst them all, as long as they Live all together, but my son John shall be free at Seventeen if his mother marries again, but if she remains my Widow she shall serve till he is one and twenty.

Item. I give and bequeath all the rest of my Beds and Bedding betwist my six children namely Mary and Ann and Francis and John and Margaret and Isabell them six children and to my wife to them do I give all moveables when the debts are paid, and my son John if he be unruly, I give unto my son Joseph all powere to give him correction. And I do desire that in Dividing the movables that they choose to or three men to Divide it amongst themselves, this my Last Will and Testament whereunto I set my hand and seal this 9th day of January 1718.

Moses Beck
Andrew (his mark) A B Beck
Henry (his mark) H L Ledbetter
(Seald w" red wax)

At a court held at Merchants Hope for the County of Prince George on the second Tuesday in March being the tenth day of the said month Anno Dom 1718

On 10 Dec. 1718 the Will and Testement of John Lanthrop Dec'd was presented in court by Margaret the relict and Joseph the son of the said Dec'd and there being no executors appointed therein the said - Margaret and Joseph made oath thereto, and it being proved by the oaths of Moses Beck, Andrew Beck and Henry Ledbetter witnesses thereto to be the Last Will of the said John Lanthrop Dec'd is by order of the court truly recorded and certificate is granted the said Margaret and Joseph Lanthrop for obtaining letters of Administration with the said will and next in due -?-

Test Wm Hamlin Cl Cur

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We have currently completed research on our Ancestral Family Line for the Landtroop Family. The maternal ancestors of our John Daniel Littrell. While we will return to all families eventually we beleive that we have collected as much as we currently can on this family, in fact we find ourselves with an amount of new material that has placed us in a position that we cannot process all of the new information without delay all other work. This is part of an ongoing cycle: research, processing, organizing, integration of new information, presenting and then publishing information; the ultimate goal being publication, we must sometimes cut off or delay some processes to get to publication. It much like doing a lot of laundry: wash, rinse, repeat… dry, fold, and putaway, sometimes you have to do it in segments inorder to complete it all.   GlennDL

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Landtroop-Luttrell Page / Landtroop Family Page

What's the difference? John Daniel Littrell’s grandmother was a Landtroop who’s ancestors go back to Virginia in the 1600s.

• So whenever we have information or articles on Landtroops that are the direct ancestors of John (and their immediate family) we will label them with the “Landtroop-Luttrell” tag.
• Whenever we have information or articles on any other Landtroops, not direct ancestors of John Littrell, we will label them with the “Landtroop Family Page” tag.

This way visitors to www.littrellfamily.org who are not descendants of John Littrell can narrow their focus when looking for missing Landtroop ancestors. It is suggested that all Landtroop researchers search both pages. Remember if a page contains a lot of articles/post it may cover more than one page… use the “older post” / “newer post” links to move among pages of the same label.
The labels, called “Index Labels” can be found under the article/post title or in the Table of contents section in the sidebars of the website. Use these labels to list and isolate multiple articles/post by those labels.

The Lantrup Sisters

UPDATE: Mystery Solved!

I’ve had this picture since the late 1990s when one of Uncle Jim’s daughters, Auvine Lynxwiler, gave it to me. We’ve had it posted on the website and at reunions since then with no success at identifying who the sisters were and how they connect to our Littrell line.

Grandpa John & Uncle Jim’s mother, Mary Catherine Urban Literal, was the daughter of Susanna L. E. Landtroop Urban.

Contribute by Auvine Littrell~Lynxwiler

For years the only clue we had was:

     The inscription (in pencil) on the back of this photo was faded and covered. It says: “Lantrup Sisters.”

Then a few year’s ago at a Tennessee reunion someone left a note on the picture display that said:

“Frances Landtroop- ****” the **** might have been “Pach”?
“Lynn Landtroop Fisher”

Besides the note being hard to read, what little information it contained was not adequate enough to make an identification. We had too many Frances and not enough Lynn's, and no ‘Fishers’ that had either a Frances, Lynn or Landtroop connection.   

Recently, while working on the draft for the next book it became necessary to return to some old files to cross reference them with some new information. In the process the new information filled in a gap here and an unanswered question there to start to make some connections. An online reference to an Elic Fisher buried in a small cemetery filled with Fisher’s and Landtroops, a marriage record of a Frances Landtroupe marrying a David Payne matched a Frances Landtroop who was the daughter of George C. Landtroop.

“Lynn Landtroop Fisher”  -- Nancy L. Fisher – the L. was for Lynn/Lee.
Lynn Lantrup, and her husband, are buried in the Clack Branch Cemetery in Lawrence County, Tennessee.

The Clack Branch Cemetery only has 17 other graves in it. Two contain George C. Landtroop and his wife, Mary Neece, and three others belong to sons of George (brothers of Nancy). The remaining graves belong to other Fishers, Landtroops and four others not bearing those surnames..

Nancy had a sister that we soon discovered had married a David Payne:

“Frances Landtroop- ****” the **** might have been “Pach”? – 
“Pach” was Payne.

From this Descendant Chart you can see that the Lantroop Sisters are Mary Catherine Urban’s first cousin, by her uncle George C. Landtroop.

......3 Stith Landtroop b: Abt. 1802 in Virginia, USA
         + Mary Agee
.........4 Susannah L.E. Landtroop b: May 27, 1837 in Alabama, USA, d: Nov 29, 1908
            + Cassandra Urban b: Jul 04, 1831 in Alabama, USA,
               m: 1856 in Madison, Alabama, USA,
............5 Mary Catherine Urban
               + Timmons Seburn Literal
.........4 George C. Landtroop b: Nov 09, 1845 in Alabama, USA,
                                                                buried in Clack Branch Cemetery
            + Mary Neece                              buried in Clack Branch Cemetery
............5 John Henry Landtroop b: Dec 10, 1876 in Alabama, USA,
                                                                buried in Clack Branch Cemetery
............5 Huston Landtroop b: Jul 15, 1879 in Alabama, USA,
                                                                buried in Clack Branch Cemetery
               + Laura Mae Fisher b: Nov 06, 1895 in Tennessee, USA, m: Aug 04, 1912
                                                                buried in Clack Branch Cemetery
............5 Nancy L. Landtroop b: Jul 18, 1884 in Alabama, USA,
                                                                buried in Clack Branch Cemetery
                    d: Aug 24, 1858 in Loretto, Lawrence County,Tennessee, USA
                    Chronic Pulmonary Fibrosis / Informant Mrs. Fred Simbeck
               + Elic Fisher b: Mar 02, 1893, m: Oct 11, 1914 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA,
                    d: Nov 07, 1950 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA
                                                                buried in Clack Branch Cemetery
............5 Dasie Landtroop b: Abt. 1887 in Alabama, USA
............5 Frances Landtroupe b: 1889 in Alabama, USA,
              + David Payne b: 1887, m: Sep 22, 1912 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA
............5 George Landtroop b: Feb 19, 1894 in Tennessee, USA
                                                                buried in Clack Branch Cemetery
              + Virgie Hamsley b: May 20, 1906,   buried in Clack Branch Cemetery
                    m: Oct 01, 1922 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA,
............5 Susie Landtroop
              + James R. Fowler b: Aug 22, 1878 in TN., Wayne Co.,
                  [Holly Creek Community],
......3 Sarah Landtroop b: Abt. 1805 in Virginia, USA; probably Dinwiddle County
         + John Frick b: 1803 in Virginia,
......3 Susan Lanthrop b: Abt. 1808 in Virginia, USA; probably Dinwiddle County
......3 Julia P. Lanthrop b: Abt. 1816 in Virginia, of; probably Dinwiddle County

Almost 20 years to identify these girls!

This Landtroop family bears the same surname as Mary Catherine Urban’s mother, Susannah L. E. Landtroop wife of Cassandra Urban.

     In researching Mary Catherine's ancestors and their descendants we came across this family, which, by their surname, location and dates are probably related to Mary Catherine. Until that relationship/connection is made we list them as unknown relatives.  

     When they are connected we will show them in the Urban family line and change their surname from all caps to “Landtroop”.

If can help connect any family e-mail me or use the comment link.

   GlennDL

Landtroop, Lantroop, Lantrip, Lathrop, and all spellings.
Ancestors of the descendants of Timmons Literal & Mary Catherine Urban through her mother.

Elizabeth Betty LANDTROOP

UPDATE: Connection found 11-23-2015, updated info appears in ‘grape’

This Landtroop family bears the same surname as Mary Catherine Urban’s mother, Susannah L. E. Landtroop wife of Cassandra Urban.

     In researching Mary Catherine's ancestors and their descendants we came across this family, which, by their surname, location and dates are probably related to Mary Catherine. Until that relationship/connection is made we list them as unknown relatives.  

     When they are connected we will show them in the Urban family line and change their surname from all caps to “Landtroop”.

......1 Elizabeth Betty LANDTROOP b: Oct 06, 1881 in Alabama, USA, d: Feb 27, 1941
      + Henry J. Simbeck b: Dec 05, 1879 in Tennessee, USA, m: Nov 23, 1902 in
         Lawrence, Tennessee, USA, d: Sep 10, 1957
.........2 John Simbeck b: Tennessee, USA, d: Oct 22, 1929 in Loretto,
            Lawrence, Tennessee, USA
         + Viola Mae Johns b: Nov 09, 1909 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA,
            m: Jun 13, 1926 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA, d: Oct 13, 1970 in
            St. Louis, Missouri, USA         see Jesse D. Littrell page.
.........2 Joe Simbeck
.........2 Louis Simbeck
.........2 William Simbeck
.........2 Edward Simbeck
.........2 Pauline Simbeck

After the death of John Simbeck, his wife Viola Johns-Simbeck remarried to Jesse Daniel Littrell. In addition to the two Children Viola had with John, James ‘Bud’ and Geneva Simbeck, Viola had several children by Jesse.

We’ve always suspected that John’s mother might be related to our Landtroop but until now we have not been able to make that connection.

Until a recent visit to the St. Louis County Library, using resources at that library we were able to identify the parents of Elizabeth (above) Landtroop, as well as clear up some other ‘mysteries’.

We can now positively identify our Landtroop family as connected to Elizabeth Betty Landtroop/John Simbeck.

1 George C. Landtroop b: Nov 09, 1845 in Alabama, USA, d: Apr 18, 1921
   + Mary Neece
   ...2 John Henry Landtroop b: Dec 10, 1876 in Alabama, USA, d: Apr 27, 1934
   ...2 Marion Huston Landtroop b: Jul 15, 1879 in Alabama, USA, d: Dec 21, 1943
         + Laura Mae Fisher b: Nov 06, 1895 in Tennessee, USA, m: Aug 04, 1912 in
            Lawrence, Tennessee, USA, d: Jan 02, 1962
   ...2 Elizabeth Betty Landtroop b: Oct 06, 1881 in Alabama, USA, d: Feb 27, 1941 in
            Loretto, Lawrence County,Tennessee, USA
         + Henry J. Simbeck b: Dec 05, 1879 in Tennessee, USA, m: Nov 23, 1902 in
            Lawrence, Tennessee, USA, d: Sep 10, 1957
   ......3 John Henry Simbeck b: Jan 21, 1904 in Tennessee, USA, d: Oct 22, 1929 in
              Loretto, Lawrence, Tennessee, USA
            + Viola Mae Johns b: Nov 09, 1909 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA, m: Jun 13, 1926
                in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA, d: Oct 13, 1970 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
                  John Henry Simbeck is a 2nd cousin of John Daniel Littrell

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Landtroop, Lantroop, Lantrip, Lathrop, and all spellings.
Ancestors of the descendants of Timmons Literal & Mary Catherine Urban through her mother.

Haughty [LANDTROOP]:

  Update: 11-23-2015: New information is in ‘grape’.

This Landtroop family (article right) bears the same surname as Mary Catherine Urban’s mother, Susannah L. E. Landtroop wife of Cassandra Urban.

     In researching Mary Catherine's ancestors and their descendants we came across this family, which, by their surname, location and dates are probably related to Mary Catherine. Until that relationship/connection is made we list them as unknown relatives.  

     When they are connected we will show them in the Urban family line and change their surname from all caps to “Landtroop”.

......1 Haughty [LANDTROOP]
.........2 Mai LANDTROOP
           + William EZELL m: 1933 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA

Until a recent visit to the St. Louis County Library we had no more information for this small family that is contained in this newspaper article.

From resources at that library we were able to identify the Landtroop’s in the article, as well as clear up some other ‘mysteries’.

We still have not connected the William EZELL mentioned, and have not identified any children (not mentioned) of Mai & William.

Below is the above information, corrected and updated to our files. With the exception of Viola Johns and John Henry Simbeck we do not list the 3rd generations.

The new information on the Landtroops also clears up some questions about Viola Johns and John Henry Simbeck, which will be covered in another post.

1 George C. Landtroop b: Nov 09, 1845 in Alabama, USA, d: Apr 18, 1921
   + Mary Neece
...2 John Henry Landtroop b: Dec 10, 1876 in Alabama, USA, d: Apr 27, 1934
...2 Marion Huston Landtroop b: Jul 15, 1879 in Alabama, USA, d: Dec 21, 1943
      + Laura Mae Fisher b: Nov 06, 1895 in Tennessee, USA, m: Aug 04, 1912 in Lawrence, 
         Tennessee, USA, d: Jan 02, 1962
             [children not shown here]
...2 Elizabeth Betty Landtroop b: Oct 06, 1881 in Alabama, USA, d: Feb 27, 1941 in Loretto,
          Lawrence County,Tennessee, USA
      + Henry J. Simbeck b: Dec 05, 1879 in Tennessee, USA, m: Nov 23, 1902 in Lawrence,
         Tennessee, USA, d: Sep 10, 1957
......3 John Henry Simbeck b: Jan 21, 1904 in Tennessee, USA, d: Oct 22, 1929 in Loretto,
          Lawrence,Tennessee, USA
      + Viola Mae Johns b: Nov 09, 1909 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA, m: Jun 13, 1926 in
          Lawrence,Tennessee, USA, d: Oct 13, 1970 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
......3 Joe Simbeck
......3 Louis Simbeck
......3 William Simbeck
......3 Edward Herman Simbeck
......3 Pauline Barbara Simbeck
...2 Nancy Lee Landtroop b: Jul 18, 1884 in Alabama, USA, d: Aug 24, 1858 in Loretto,
        Lawrence  County,Tennessee, USA; Chronic Pulmonary Fibrosis / Informant Mrs. Fred
        Simbeck
      + Elic Fisher b: Mar 02, 1893, m: Oct 11, 1914 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA, d: Nov
         07, 1950 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA
...2 Fanny Dasie Landtroop b: Abt. 1887 in Alabama, USA
...2 Frances Landtroupe b: 1889 in Alabama, USA, d: 1930
     + David Payne b: 1887, m: Sep 22, 1912 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA
...2 George Landtroop b: Feb 19, 1894 in Tennessee, USA
      + Virgie Hamsley b: May 20, 1906, m: Oct 01, 1922 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA,
          d. Jan 20, 1924
      + Verena Hamsley b: Oct 09, 1909, d: Jan 09, 1947 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA
...2 Susie Landtroop
      + James R. Fowler b: Aug 22, 1878 in TN., Wayne Co., [Holly Creek Community],
         m: Jan 27, 1901 in Lawrence, Tennessee, USA
      + Newton
...2 William E.J. Bill Landtroop
      + Haughty Fowler
......3 Beulah Mai Landtroop
      + William EZELL m: 1933
......3 Audie Landtroop
......3 Willie E. Landtroop
......3 Rosa Landtroop
......3 Walter Landtroop
......3 Ruby Landtroop
......3 Ruth Landtroop
......3 Louise Landtroop
......3 Brownie Landtroop

Lawrence News: 4-21-1933 ----------------------------
     The identification of any other persons in this article would help us immensely. The absence of ages and in some cases first names has made definite identifications difficult. We can assume some possible identification but this might be misleading.
     The positive identification of any of those in the article could open the door to the identification of the remaining person. Any researchers who can shed any light on this article would be doing us a great service.

William Ezell is an unknown Ezell, the family of Kizzie Zore Comer Littrell.
  GlennDL

Landtroop, Lantroop, Lantrip, Lathrop, and all spellings.
Ancestors of the descendants of Timmons Literal & Mary Catherine Urban through her mother.