David Pulse

David was born in February 1802 in Virginia. David's father was David Pulse and his mother was Sarah Fry. His paternal grandparents were John Michael Boltz and Eleanor (Nelly) Veronica Firnssler; his maternal grandparents were Lodowick Fry and Abigail. He had five brothers and nine sisters, named George, Jacob, John, Lewis, John, Susannah, Eleanor, Catherine, Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret, Mary, Lydia and Barbara. He was the eighth oldest of the fifteen children.

General Notes
- Simon Stroup, married Barbara, daughter of David Pulse, and became a prominent and prosperous farmer in Dodson township, having inherited two hundred acres of his father's large real estate holdings. He held the office of assessor for thirteen consecutive years and in other ways figured iunuentially in the affairs of his township. Of the twelve children bom to himself and wife, only five are now living, four sons and one daughter. Among the former is Lewis F. Stroup, who was born in Highland county, Ohio, October 22, 1837, and grew up on the farm, meanwhile attending the neighborhood schools. He started in business for himself at an early ago and has made a success of general farming and stock-raising, owning 112 acres of good land and a fine residence which he built in 1888. September 10, 1863, Mr. Stroup was married to Mary E. Drais, of Highland county, and they have had the following children: Clement E., David, Charles and Ulric; Minnie, wife of Isaac Shaffer; Flora, wife of Mahlon Thompson, who died in 1899; Luca, wife of Joseph Wilkiii; Clara, wife of Henry Swearingen, and Luella, at home.