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- "John Rumsey, son of Nathaniel and Betsey (Rider) Rumsey, settled in Matteson Tp, Branch Co, Mich, where he first purchased land in Section 26, in 1846. He farmed and lived there for 20 years. He then purchased a farm of 80 acres in Section 14, Noble Tp, and made it one of the best farms of the region, with a neat substantial dwelling, suitable barns and outhouses, and one of the finest orchards in the township. He was a Menonite, and a Democrat. (BCM)
(John had move to Noble by 1860. Branch Co deeds have not been checked to learn when he first purchased land in Matteson and in Noble.)
John was married in Matteson in 1841, the witnesses being Elizabeth and William Staily. They were there in the 1850 census. John was 27, a farmer for whom no real estate was listed. His wife Maria was 28 and could neither read nor write. They had four children: George 8, Luana 6, Jane 3 and Margaritt 1 year old. They were living not far from his brothers Stephen and George Rumsey.
In 1860, John and Maria were in Noble Tp, P.O. Round Lake. Both were 37 years of age, and he had only $450 in real estate and $250 in personal property. Maria was still illiterate. Their family now consisted of George W. 17, Lowana 15, Jane 13, Margaret 12, Susan 6, and John A. 1 year.
Maria died in 1868, and later that year John married again. But he lost his second wife Eliza Jane before the 1870 census, and had no surviving issue by her. Eliza Jane Peterson was 42 when married, born in Green Co, Ohio, but a resident of Mill Grove, Ind. (Not found there in the 1860 census.) Witnesses to this marriage were Lester Peterson and Margaret Rumsey, who were married
less than a month later, he a resident of Mill Grove. It is quite possible that Eliza Jane was a widow, with Lester her son.
John Rumsey had no wife in the 1870 census, when he was 46 and had land worth $2000 and personal property worth $600. Keeping house for him in Noble was his daughter Mary L."Gibson", who had married "Stuart Gibson" the previous December 1869. (The names should be reversed in this census, Stuart being the last name.) Mary was 26, and Stuart was 29, another farmer. The only other
child still at home was John A. Rumsey who was 12.
Also in Noble in 1870 were Jacob and Mary Imhoof, ages 32 and 26, both born in Ohio. He was a farmer with $1300 and $500 in real and personal property. Their children were Elizabeth 8 and Sarah 6, born in Indiana, and Catharine 4
and Mary 2, born in Michigan.
John Rumsey married the widow Mary Imhoof as his third wife in July 1880, (though the 1880 census taken 25 June had them already married), the witnesses being Eunice Earl and George Cauright. Mary appeared with him in the census that year, though married after the official census date of June 1st. John was "54", Mary 37, and his son John was aged 21. Three of Mary's "Imhoff" children were also with them, called step-children of John Rumsey. They were John 7, Samuel 5 and Annetta 3. Mary had other Imhoof child named Peter (VHR) who never appeared with her in the census, probably born soon after the 1870 census
and possibly died before 1880.
The delayed birth record of Ernest Rumsey, son of John Rumsey and Mary Anglemyre, filed in Branch Co 31 Dec 1941, gave their residence as Greenfield
Mills, (LaGrange Co), Ind, in 1883, though the birthplace of Ernest was in Noble, Mich (VR G:303). (His eldest half-brother George was living there in 1880.)
The death record of John5 Rumsey gave his father's name as Byron Rumsey! John had a grandson of that name who had died five years before, but there are
no known early Rumseys of that name who could have been father of John, earliest b 1847. And the Branch County history named his parents as Nathaniel Rumsey and the Betsey Rider who married (2) Benjamin Stebbins in Marion Co, Ohio. No probate was indexed in Branch Co for John Rumsey.
In 1900, widow Mary Rumsey was with John A. Rumsey in Noble, and called his mother-in-law. She was also his step-mother. She was 55 and had borne 9
children, all of whom were living. This would be her 8 Imhoof children and 1 Rumsey child, though 1 of the Imhoof children had presumably died young.
Her son Ernest Rumsey, aged 17, was called brother-in-law, living with William Henderson and his wife Elizabeth (Imhoof), in Cheshire, Allegan Co, Mich, working for them as a farm laborer. Elizabeth was his half-sister.
Mary Rumsey's death record gave the names of both her parents, residents of Michigan. In the 1880 census their birthplaces were given as Pennsylvania, and in 1900 as Ohio." (Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey)
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