Notes:
Data source is the 1990 book, "Moomaw-Mumma-Mumaw-Mumaugh Genealogy" compiled by Robert Austin Moomaw (deceased).
Hagerstown (MD) Torch Light, Monday, February 15, 1847
"In Sharpsburg on the 2nd Feb. by the Rev. Mr. Doyle, Mr. Jacob Mumma to Miss Ann M. Miller, both of Sharpsburg."
1850 Census, MD, Washington Co., Subdivision 2
Jacob Mumma, 26, farmer, b: MD
Ann " , 20, b: MD
Virginia, 1, b: MD
Levi Myers, 22, farm hand, b: MD
Catharine Highberger, 30, b: MD
1860 Census, MD, Washington Co., Boonsboro
Jacob H Mumma, 35, farmer, b: VA
Ann M Mumma, 35, b: MD
Elizabeth Mumma, 11, b: MD
Thomas Mumma, 9, b: MD
Benjamin Mumma, 7, b: MD
Lilly Mumma, 5, b: MD
Estella Mumma, 1, b: MD
Migrated from Sharpsburg to Mr. Morris, Ogle County Illinois about 1863
1870 Census: Mt. Morris, Ogle Co., IL p. 394
Mumma, Jacob, 46, Farmer, $3000 personal, b. VA
" , Ann M, age 43, b. MD
" , Elizabeth, age 21, b. MD
" , Thomas J., age 19, b. MD
" , Benjamin F., age 17, b. MD
" , Lilly M., age 15, b. MD
" , Mary E., age 11, b. MD
" , Charles M., age 9, b. MD
" , Robert Lee, age 6/12, b. IL
1880 Census Place: Pine Creek, Ogle, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254239 National Archives Film T9-0239 Page 138B
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
J.H. MUMMA Self M M W 56 MD
Occ: Farmer Fa: MD Mo: MD
Ann MUMMA Wife F M W 53 MD
Occ: Keeps House Fa: MD Mo: MD
Lilly MUMMA Dau F S W 25 MD
Occ: Keeps House Fa: MD Mo: MD
Estella MUMMA Dau F S W 21 MD
Occ: At Home Fa: MD Mo: MD
Charles MUMMA Son M S W 19 MD
Occ: Works On Farm Fa: MD Mo: MD
R. Lee MUMMA Son M S W 11 IL
Occ: Works On Farm Fa: MD Mo: MD
He died while on a trip to Colorado Springs, CO. His middle name was supplied by Evelyn Merle Mumma. His death certificate says he died of a "paralysis of heart"
----------------------------------
Historic interest attaches to the scenes made familiar to Mr. Mumma
through the associations of childhood, for his early home was on the site of
the bloody struggle of Antietam, sometimes called the battle of Sharpsburg,
and the house where his grandfather lived was burned to the ground during
the fierce conflict between the north and south. His father, Jacob, and
grandfather, Samuel Mumma, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania,
removed to Maryland and settled at Sharpsburg, where they followed farm
pursuits. For a time the father was engaged as a boatman on the Ohio and
Chesapeake canal. With strong southern sympathies, he was prevented by
family cares from enlisting on the side of the Confederacy, but found his
location undesirable by reason of being in close proximity to the theater of
war. Accordingly during 1864 he sought a new home in different surroundings
and removed to Illinois, where he carried on general farming for many years
near Mount Morris. Upon retiring from agricultural activities, in 1897 he
established his home in Colorado Springs, Col., where he died in 1899.
The wife of Jacob Mumma was Mary Ann Miller, a native of Shapsburg,
Md., and a daughter of Jacob Miller, a weaver by trade and a man of
consid-erable inventive genius. To him belongs the distinction of having
manufactured the first seamless sack ever made, the idea being original with
him. Among the people of Sharpsburg, his home town, he was prominent by
reason of his generous disposition and large philanthropies, as well as
through his long and honorable business career. After a busy career he
passed away at Sharpsburg when within four years of having rounded a full
century of existence. In the family of Jacob and Ann Mary Mumma there were
four sons and three daughters. The second in order of birth and the eldest
of the sons is Thomas J., who was born at Sharpsburg, Md., August 18, 1851.
When the family came west as far as Illinois he accompanied them thither and
took up farm pursuits near Mount Morris. His first settlement in California
was made in 1873, at which time he began general farming and gardening on
the Sacramento river. Two years later he removed to the vicinity of Dunnigan
and after another two years he settled upon a tract of land east of
Arbuckle, where he remained for a similar period. From there he returned to
Illinois and embarked in the creamery business at Mount Morris with John W.
Hitt as partner, continuing a large and important business in the
manufacture of butter for a number of years. On his second removal to
California, in the spring of 1884, he established his home near Dunnigan,
and two years afterward purchased his present homestead of seven hundred and
eighty-five acres five miles northeast of Dunnigan. The raising of grain is
his specialty, and in addition to his home ranch he rents a grain farm of
six hundred and forty acres in the same locality, the two properties giving
him a large acreage for his grain interests.
While living in Illinois Mr. Mumma was married near Mount Morris,
December 31, 1879, to Miss Alice Hanshaw, who was born December 24, 1853, at
Ithaca, NY. Six children were born of their union, one of whom died in
infancy and two (Harry and Ruth) in early childhood, those now living being
Marion May, Thomas H., and Alice Lillian. A firm believer in the principles
of Masonry, Mr. Mumma holds membership in Dunnigan Lodge No. 284, F. & A. M.
Though reared in the Democratic faith and favoring many of its tenets, he is
rather independent in his views and has displayed no partisan spirit in his
opinions, casting his ballot and giving his influence toward those men and
those principles best adapted to promote the well-being of his county and
state. He is an interested worker in the reclamation of arid lands, and has
served as trustee of Reclamation District No. 108.
"History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the
Sacramento Valley, Cal.," J. M. Guinn, The Chapman Publishing Company,
Chicago, 1906, Page 440.