From Susan Gates Davis

 

 

The South Bend Tribune, Friday Evening, December 11, 1953, Sec. 1 Pg. 22:
Mrs. Susanna Ellen Stroup
   Mrs. Susanna Ellen Stroup, Rt. 4, Lydick, died at 7 a.m. today in her home where she had been ill since Wednesday.  She was 92.  She was born in St. Joseph County Nov. 26, 1861, and lived all her life here.  She was married in 1879 to George W. Stroup, who died in 1904.  Surviving are two sons, James A. and Glen W., and a daughter, Mrs. Elmer Wood, all of Lydick.  Friends may call in the Welsheimer Funeral Home after 4 p.m. Saturday.