Data source and researcher is Douglas Mumma, 2123 Farmington Place, Livermore, CA 94550
* The crucial evidence of George Anthony Mumma's first wife is most interesting because it was not discovered in any documents filed in Lancaster County, but in Frederick and Augusta Counties, Virginia. A document was filed in Lancaster County where George Mumma, along with Nicholas Bower, given Letters of Administration on 8 October 1757 for the estate of John Baughman. No other documents relating to this Administration can be found in the Lancaster County records. However, quite by accident, two copies of quit claim deeds were discovered in the Chancery Court files of Augusta County relating to a lawsuit between Hite and Ready. These documents list George Mumma as a beneficiary of John Baughman's estate because George had married one of John's daughters. This daughter had since died, but George maintains an interest in John's estate because he and Alice must have had a child. This is the same George Anthony Mumma of Lancaster County because George Mumma signs one of the documents with his distinctive Mark, "IMA". I have since determined that this child was most likely their eldest daughter, Elizabeth. One strange fact that was previously puzzling was that Elizabeth was given additional monies through her father's Will written in 1785, yet Elizabeth is not even mentioned in George's wife's Will, (Barbara Weber Mumma). We have always wondered why Elizabeth was left off of Barbara's 1788 Will and some researchers speculated that Elizabeth had already died. From a Will written by her sister's husband, Jacob Hertzler, we know that Elizabeth is still alive when Jacob writes his Will in 1793 and after Barbara's deatj in 1788. Now, a reason surfaces as to why Barbara left Elizabeth out of her Will, simply Elizabeth was not her child. While we don't konw when this first marriage took place, we do know that Geoge Anthony was married to Barbara Weber in 1750 because her name appears on the deed of a piece of property that he sells and she signs away her "dower rights". Although we don't know George's exact age, we can make a fairly good educated guess. He was the eldest son, as stated in his mother's will. Since there were 5 children, we can assume the typical "2 years" between children which would make him about 10 years old. We know he was not older than 16 because of the immigrants list. So, we might assume he was born about 1722, 10 years before the voyage, and certainly not earlier than 1716. We might speculate then that he married when he was about 20-22 years of age which would have been about 1742-1744. They probably had a child within a year of marriage and then Alice died soon there after. My guestimate would be that he married about 1742, that Alice was born about 1743-44 and that Alice died about 1746, possibly during the birth of a second child. I would then expect that George would have immediately found a new wife, Barbara Weber, to help his raise his young daughter. These dates are, of course pure speculation, but quite likely. Unfortunately, the births of almost none of the children are known because no baptisms were ever recorded.
A more detailed description of the documents relating to the evidence for George's first wife can be downloaded by going to this web address:
http://www.mumma.org/archives/IMA.pdf This is in Adobe PDF file format and you will need a PDF reader to view it. If you don't have one, you can get one free from Adobe at
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