Notes:
Data source is George Browder Mumma, Jr. E-mail jeffcoda8@gmail.com
New Oxford (Pennsylvania) Item, Friday, October 25, 1901:
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Mrs. Sarah Mumma, wife of Dr. E. W. Mumma, of Bendersville, died Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock of apoplexy, aged 70 years
History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 477
THE Wilson FAMILY were originally from Lochgall, County Tyrone, Ireland, and the first of the immediate ancestors of those who afterward settled in Menallen Township was George Wilson, who settled in Chester County, Penn., in 1690. He also had a brother, Michael, who afterward moved to North Carolina. George came to what is now Menallen Township, and built a log house just adjoining the village of Bendersville, about 1785. He had a family of one son, Benjamin, and several daughters. Benjamin lived and died in the log house. He had several daughters, and one son, George, who kept the first postoffice in Bendersville. George had the following children: William; Benjamin F., who made the first survey for the village of Bendersville; John; Ruth, who married James J. Wills, and became the mother of Judge David Wills, of Gettysburg; and Elizabeth, who died in infancy. Benjamin F. Wilson, of the fourth generation here, married Susan Wierman, Their children are Sarah, wife of Dr. E. W. Mumma; Nicholas G., now the superintendent of the cemetery at Gettysburg; and Benjamin F., of Norfolk, Va. The father died in 1834, aged thirty-three years. His widow remained single fifty years, and died July 26, 1884. The Wilsons were originally members of the orthodox Society of Friends, and many of their descendants still adhere to the faith. Being the only members of that society' in their part of the county they never erected a meeting-house, but meetings were held every Sabbath at the house of George Wilson, a grandson of the original settler.