Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameMichael STUMP IV 
Birth Date4 May 1787
Birth PlaceHardy County, West Virginia
Death Date17 Mar 1883 Age: 95
Death PlaceStumptown, Gilmer County, West Virginia
Burial PlaceTumptown, Gilmer County, West Virginia, Stump Cemetery
Spouses
Birth Date18 Feb 1791
Birth PlaceHarrison County, West Virginia
Death Date2 May 1860 Age: 69
Death PlaceStumptown, Gilmer County, West Virginia
Burial PlaceStumptown, Gilmer County, West Virginia, Stump Cemetery
Family ID9079
Marr Date1810
Marr PlaceCalhoun County, West Virginia
ChildrenMargaret (1812-1862)
Notes for Michael STUMP IV
Michael Stump IV had 11 sons (Georg, Jacob, Absalom, Henry, Eli, John, Simon Peter, Archibald, Martin, Alfred and Elliott), and 3 daughters (Margaret who married Robert Shock, Scinthy who married John Bennett, and Matilda who married James Frank Barr) with Elizabeth Bush Stump, as recorded in a 22 JAN 1923 letter from C. T. (Clayton) Stump of Staten WV (Calhoun County), to Marcellus Stump. Michael Stump IV was a surveyor, and he was sheriff of Lewis County VA for six years. He was elected Gilmer County surveyor on 24 MAR 1845, and he was also one of the first justices of the Gilmer County Court, serving in the capacity of justice of the peace for over 40 years. His name was included on the 1869 Voter Listing for the Sherman District of Calhoun County WV. He was reported to be 79 years old and born in Harrison County VA on this list.
Michael Stump married second widow Mary Rice, daughter of Henry and Alsa Bush, on 27 SEP 1867, in Calhoun County WV. The marriage record at West Virginia Vital Research Records, shows him as 80 and her as 60 years old.
By the time of the 1880 Census for Gilmer County WV, Mary has passed on and Michael was living with his grandson Mandeville B. Stump.
The date of his death corresponds with the engraving on his gravestone.
On Find A Grave.
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Michael Stump married second widow Mary Rice, daughter of Henry and Alsa Bush, on 27 SEP 1867, in Calhoun County WV. The marriage record at West Virginia Vital Research Records, shows him as 80 and her as 60 years old.
By the time of the 1880 Census for Gilmer County WV, Mary has passed on and Michael was living with his grandson Mandeville B. Stump.
The date of his death corresponds with the engraving on his gravestone.
On Find A Grave.
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Notes for Elizabeth (Spouse 1)
Elizabeth Bush was the daughter of Jacob and Margaret Swan Bush of Harrison County VA, now WV; and granddaughter of George Adam Bush, immigrant from Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. She married Michael Stump IV on January 30, 1810, in Harrison County VA; and bore him fourteen children.
Jacob Bush was a Revolutionary War veteran.
On Find A Grave.
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Jacob Bush was a Revolutionary War veteran.
On Find A Grave.
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