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JOSEPH NORMAN ROOP  The Roop family was an early Emmons County pioneer family. Joseph was born in Maryland in January 1836 to Joseph and Susannah Roop. He married Julia Ann Myers on 25 November 1863 in Ashland County, Ohio. Julia was born on 7 September 1838 in Maryland to John and Hannah Keim Myers. Two children were born of this marriage; John Ichamer and Ida Mary (sometimes Mary Ida).
Joseph died on 15 August 1906 in Emmons County and is buried in the Roop Cemetery. The burial is located on the homestead of Joseph's.
Joseph held a Braddock Homestead Land Patent of 80 acres on the North Half, Northwest Quarter of Section 22 in Township 135, Range 75 now known as the Lincoln School Township. Today that would be the southeast corner of 63rd Street and 15th Avenue Southeast. It is on this property where the Roop Cemetery is located.
In the 1883 organization of the new Emmons County, Joseph was named the County Treasurer. A post office was established on the homestead on 21 August 1884. Joseph was named postmaster. The area actually grew to a small community known as Roop but by 1900 the post office was closed. In the establishment of Williamsport, one of the streets leading out of the city was named Roop Trail.
After Joseph's death Julia relocated to Burleigh County where their son John operated the Roop Store. Julia died on 23 May 1917 in Bismarck and is buried in the Hazelton Cemetery in Hazelton.
John Ichamer Roop John was born in Ashland County, Ohio on 3 April 1865. John married Ida May Kurtz on 15 September 1887 near Williamsport at the home of Ida's parents John and Martha Kurtz. Children from this marriage included Mabel I. (May 1890) (married Earl Frederick, 27 December 1908, Emmons County), Norman I. (June 1894) (married Alberta Christy, 14 September 1926, Cass County), and Hazel E. (August 1897). Ida May passed away 5 February 1912 in Emmons County.
John married Alberta Good on 9 January 1915. Alberta died in 1953 in Seattle, King County, Washington.
John owned land in Section 20, Township 135, Range 76. The Northern Pacific established a depot there and the town that would be
born was named Hazelton after John's daughter Hazel. John was one of the first businessmen in Hazelton, as a grain buyer and implement dealer.
John died in Rural Bothell, King County, Washington in 1956.
Ida Mary Roop In some sources she is recorded as Mary Ida. Ida was born 13 December 1869 in Ashland County, Ohio. She married Edward F. Savage on 6 October 1887. Ida became ill at an early age and even her husband and mother took her to Minneapolis to determine her illness and cure with no avail. There was no known children. Ida died in October 1902 and is buried in the Roop Cemetery. In January 1909 Edward married Catherine Maddock previously married to a McLaughlin. Edward died in 1945. Burial
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