Let’s be real: shopping for furniture can be a chore, in the worst sense of the word. Driving from store to store, forgetting
measurements, walking past so many sofas that they all start to look the same…Sound familiar?
Champ Troup b. 1805 d. N/A
Born somewhere around 1805, in Laurens County, Georgia, Champ was the oldest of the boys and for some reason made a decision to change his surname to Edmond. Through our research, we learned that Champ married Rebecca while both were slaves working together on the Turkey Creek Plantation. Champ and Rebecca had fourteen children:
Philis Edmond
Isaac Edmond
Betsy Edmond
Jacob Edmond
Joseph Edmond
Tempy Edmond
Richard Edmond
Jack Edmond
Shadrack Edmond
Eliza Edmond
Francis Edmond
Caroline Edmond
Adaline Edmond
Creasey Edmond
Charles Troup b. 1820 d. N/A
Charles Troup was a house servant on the Turkey Creek Plantation in 1846. He later married a woman name Sarah. After 1870, Charles changed his family’s surname to Edmond. Charles and Sarah had five children.
Judson Edmond
Robert Edmond
Mildred Edmond
Obediah Edmond
Lee Edmond
Wallace Troup b. 1830 d. N/A
Wallace Troup was the third child born to Lee and Mariah. Wallace, like his brother Charles, also changed his surname to Edmond, but added a ‘s’ at the end for reasons still unknown. Wallace met and married Vinnie Whitehead and from this marriage, three kids were born.
Charlotte Edmonds
Samuel Edmonds
Tallulia Edmonds
Obediah Troup b. 1842 d. 1914
Obediah was the only offspring of Lee and Mariah who kept the name Troup, but for reasons still unknown today, he added an ‘e' and his group became the first family in our history to go by the name Troupe surname. Obediah married Katie and they together raised eight children:
