Notes:
Photograph contributed by Matt Mustonen
Data source is Jane Weidman, 6009 Queenston, Springfield VA 22152
Peter Klare was a farmer and carpenter. After Susannah died, he married Elizabeth Whistler, a widow. He is living with his new wife in the 1880 census along with his son, Zachariah Taylor Mumma in Bluffton, Allen Co., OH
1850 Census, OH, Allen Co., Monroe twp.
Name: Peter Mummer
Age: 29
Birth Year: abt 1821
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1850: Monroe, Allen, Ohio
Gender: Male
Family Number: 2021
Household Members:
Name Age
Peter Mummer 29
Sarah Mummer 26
William Mummer 10
Susannah Mummer 7
Joseph Mummer 5
Zackariah Mummer 1
1870 Census, OH, Allen Co., Bluffton
Name: Peter Mumagh [Peter Mumma]
Age in 1870: 52
Birth Year: abt 1818
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: Bluffton, Allen, Ohio
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Beaverdam
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Peter Mumagh 52
Elisabeth Mumagh 53
Joseph Mumagh 26
Zera L Mumagh 20
Else C Mumagh 18
Mary E Mumagh 14
Isaac N Mumagh 12
Simon G Mumagh 11
Martha L Mumagh 8
Roy E Mumagh 7
The following information was provided by "Mark Somers" . His data source is a book titled "Family History-French, Montz, Mellinger, Somers, Hodgson" by Joseph Howard Hodgson published in 1982
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"Susannah Montz, probably the older sister of Joseph, married Peter Moomaw. He was a school teacher in Pittsburgh, Penn. Joseph lived with them for a while before he was married. Susannah's daughter, Mary, died of T.B. Her son, William, lived for a short time on the "80" (acres) a mile east of the Joseph Montz farm. It was all timber with just a cabin on it. William worked around the neighborhood and for his Uncle Joseph. His wife had spasms. When they lived there they had one little girl, but they had other children afterwards. In 1866 or 1867 they moved to Warsaw, Indiana."
The following was provided by Matt Mustonen E-mail ab0146@wayne.edu
MUMMA - BOWEN
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Peter Klare Mumma (7-19-1819), son of Peter Mumma and Elizabeth Klare, was married to Susannah O. Montz (10-31-1822) and resided in Columbus Grove, Ohio, approximately sixty miles southeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana, when their daughter Martha Lucretia was born (2-2-62). Columbus Grove is today a small town of two thousand in population and lies on Ohio State Highway 65 about twenty-two miles north of Lima. Peter and Susannah were the parents of eleven children. Eight boys and three girls: William James (1839), Susannah (Bogart) (1841), Joseph Montz (1844), Isaiah (1846), Zachariah Taylor (1850), Eber Leslie (1852), Mary Elizabeth (1854), Isaac Newton Mark (1857), Simon Gibson (1859), Martha Lucretia (1862), and Roy Edwin Keller (1864). Mary Eiizabeth died in her teens of tuberculosis. Joseph Hamilton Bowen was married to Martha Lucretia Mumma on January 29, 1880* To this union twelve children were born: Mabel Naomi (1881), Ada Vivian (1883), Lillian Inez (1885), Lester Floyd and Chester Lloyd, twins (1886), Franke Coral (1889), Roy E. K. (1891), Merlin Leslie (1893), Harry Irwin (1895), Irma Mildred (1897), Joe Mumma (1900), and Gladys Leone (1904).
Obituary of Peter K. Mumma is from a newspaper clipping, which is undated and name of newspaper unknown. Clipping in possession of Ray F. Mumma.
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Obituary of PETER K. MUMMA
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Peter K. Mumma died Tuesday June 7, at his home in Bluffton, his death being due in a large part to the enfeeblement of old age. Funeral services were held at the Church of Christ Thursday afternoon, Rev. Myers officiating. The remains were laid to rest in Maple Grove cemetery. The funeral was largely attended, as the deceased was a pioneer resident of the town and enjoyed a wide circle of acquaintances.
Just at the time that President Monroe issued his world-renowned proclamation enunciating the Monroe doctrine, which now is an important factor in the policy of our government, Peter K. Mumma was born - July 19, 1819 - at Mount Joy Lancaster county, Pa. Notwithstanding the limited facilities at that early period, he acquired an excellent education in both the English and German languages. He also spoke French quite fluently. He devoted much of his time in early life to the study of the great political questions, which then agitated this growing republic. He early evinced a hatred for the institution of slavery, and followed the leadership of Wendell Phillips, William Cullen Bryant, Horace Greeley, Joshua R. Giddings, John Brough and Ben Wade. After the passage of the fugitive slave act of 1850, he became an outspoken abolitionist.
Between the years 1850 and 1860 his home became notorious as the hiding place of slaves who had escaped from their masters and were seeking freedom in Ohio, which state he had adopted as his home in 1839. He was an ardent Whig until the birth of the Republican party when he became one of its charter members, advocating its doctrines and voting the ticket until his death. The last convention of that party held in Allen county he attended and was an active participant in its proceedings. He was married to Susanna O. Montz, the mother of his children, in 1839. After the death of his first wife in 1870, he married Elizabeth Whistler, who, now, at the age of 86 survives him. Uncle Peter, as he was familiarly known, was a true patriot, a kind indulgent father, a good husband a universally esteemed by his neighbors. He leaves seven sons and two daughters and a large circle of friends who deeply feel his loss. He was a member of the Christian church.
