Striplin Family Genealogy

Welcome to the "Striplin Family" Genealogy website. Our family members have been working very hard to try and piece together our family history. We welcome your help in working with us to try and validate and build our genealogical tree. Our 'Striplin" roots are linked to family trees in Illinois, Tennessee, South Carolina and possibly Virginia. One main variance in the spelling of our last name on numerous historical documents has been "Stripling". Some census reports spell our last name with the "g" at the end while others (more recent) omit the "g" at the end. We have recent family DNA evidence that supports our family connection to the "Stribling" line of the Carolina's and possibly Virginia.

Our family research group is still relatively small and it is our hope that this website will allow us to meet other family members and that they may be able to provide additional information/documents that can help us locate our roots. We have been fairly successful tracing our roots to Edward Striplin and his brothers (James, Caswell, Toliver, Samuel, Alexander etc..). all of whom list their place of birth as either Tennessee or South Carolina. We have encountered significant difficulty in identifying their parents; who they were? and where they came from?

Until recent, we had no clue as to who their parents were. However, we have obtained a copy of Samuel Striplin's obituary which states that his father's name was William Striplin (place of birth TN) and his mother's name was Sarah (last name can not be clearly read.. place of birth TN also). We have now been searching in TN to try and create a connection. Although this information is refreshing, there are some documents (censu reports) that list the father's place of birth as South Carolina, not TN. Samuel's 1911 obituary also cited that his grandfather fought under General Francis Marion (The Swamp Fox) and was captured and brutally killed with a broad ax during the revolutionary war. A number of Striplin children were henceforth been named "Francis Marion".

We still need a lot of help identifying more information about the parents of Edward and his brothers. We also need help in getting more information about the grandfather who fought under Marion. We are basically genealogically stuck around 1820 in definitively linking our roots to our ancestors. The feature stories to the right contain documents/questions relative to our family history. I would like to thank my following cousins for their past contributions and ongoing contributions to the construction of this site and the historic documents. Very special thanks to:

Liz Striplin Dupraz (France)
Robert Striplin (Tennessee)
Lynne Dikering (Illinois)
Candy (California)
Brian McDonald (Illinois)
Tim McDonald (Illinois)
Ann Dickhoff (Washington)
Dennis Crawford (Utah)
Jeff Barnes
Jerry Davis

I would also like to thank Jeff Barnes for his many contributions and research.. Jeff is now part of the group!
Site Administrator
Tom Striplin (Maryland)
tstriplin@atlanticbb.net