• Sex: M
• Born: 1 OCT 1819 Washington Co., MD
• Died: 27 JUL 1882 Mt. Carroll Twp., Carroll Co., IL
• Notes:
  ******************************************************** Illinois Public Land Purchase records. David Mumma purchased 40 acres on 16 Aug 1841 E2SW, Sec 3, T24N R9E Mt. Morris Twp., Ogle Co., IL 80 acres on 16 Aug 1841 E2NE, Sec 9, T24N R9E Mt. Morris Twp., Ogle Co., IL 40 acres on 06 Jul 1853 SENE, Sec 1, T24N R5E Salem Twp., Carroll Co., IL 40 acres on 29 Aug 1853 SESE, Sec 33, T25N R4E Woodland Twp., Carroll Co., IL ******************************************************** Quote from the 1887 Ogle County History, Mt. Morris Village section, "The Rock River Register" about 1842. " The extent to which DAVID MUMMA, of this neighborhood, shoots down our deer, strikes us as being pretty alarmingly exhausting. While his extraordinary Nimrodian exploits render David our boast, yet we must Fear that he is playing havoc with our game. He has killed seventy deer this season. He has sold deer skins to the amount of $30, besides which he has taken and sold otters's skins and other peltry. He is not taking a load of venison (hind quarters) to Chicago. Here marks his pro-PENCE-city. Besides all this, he has feasted on the fore quarters and treated his neighbors bountifully to the same luxury. In one of his hunts, he sent a bullet through the vitals of three deer at once--laying them all low. Who has ever equaled this shot? we ask who?" ************************************************************ Another interesting quote from the book, "Carroll County - A Goodly Heritage", E. George Theim, Editor. Koble Printing Co., Mt. Morris, IL 1968, p. 177. "Mirror Dec. 12, 1860: A grey eagle with a seven foot wing-spread which was shot by David Mumma was bought by Captain Baird and can be seen at the Baird House." ************************************************************ In addition, David is listed in an obituary for a John Mumma who is believed to have been his brother. JOHN MUMMA (Obituary from an unknown Illinois newspaper & undated) John Mumma was born in Washington County, Maryland, January 16, 1818 and died at his home in Adeline, Ogle Co., IL:, November 29, 1890, aged 72 years, 10 months, and 13 days. He first came to. this state in 1837 in a party consisting of David Mumma, Benjamin Myers, Samuel Fonts, Samuel Heith, and Jacob Buck. Of this party he was the last surviving member. He remained in this state until the fall of 1840 when he returned to his native state. He was married to Miss Susan Huffman, December 6, 1842, and remained in the state of Maryland until 1846 when he, with his family, and Jacob Huffman Sr, and his family, removed to this state where he has since resided. He first located about 5 miles north of Mt. Morris, Illinois, near the home of Jacob Rue, Sr. and remained there until 1853, when he built a dwelling in the village of Adeline and removed to that place where he resided to the time of his death, having never left the state but once and that to pay a visit to his Maryland home during the winter of 1878-79. There was born to bless this union 7 children - 5 boys and 2 girls of which 4 boys and the 2 girls are still living, one son having died in infancy. There remains to morn his loss, his wife, 6 children, 12 grandchildren and a host of kind friends, neighbors and acquaintances. His body was laid to rest in the cemetery at Adeline. The services were conducted by Rev. H. D. Hezly, U B minister at the U B. Church, who spoke words of comfort and consolation to the bereaved friends from Psalms XXIII:4. Thus they pass away. Another old settler added to the long list of departed ones; the question now, who is next? ******************************************************** GROOM BRIDE CNTY DATE VOL/PAGE LIC ____________________________________________________________________ MUMA, DAVID HARRIS, MARY A CARROLL 09/19/1844 00B/0063 00000080 http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/marrsrch.html ******************************************************** 1850 Census Illinois, Carroll County, Mount Carroll Twp. 24 Sept 1850, p. 356 David Muma, age 30, Laborer, $100 property, b. MD Mary C., age 23, b. MD Margaret M., age 4, b. IL Anabella, age 2, b. IL 1860 Census Illinois, Carroll County, Mount Carroll Twp. 28 July 1860, p. 264 David Muma, age 39, Miner, $800 real estate, $200 personal, b. MD Mary, age 33, b. MD Maggie, age 13, b. IL Anabella, age 12, b. IL Caroline, age 10, b. IL Alice, age 6, b. IL Jennie, age 4, b. IL 1870 Census Illinois, Carroll County, Mount Carroll Twp., City of Mt. Carrol, 12 August 1870, p. 174B Mumma, David, age 50, Miner, $3000 real estate, $900 personal, b. MD Mary, age 43, b. MD Caroline, age 20, b. IL Allice M., age 16, b. IL Jennie, age 14, b. IL Maude L., age 7, b. IL May, age 2, b. IL 1880 Census Illinois, Carroll County, Mount Carroll City. 4 June 1880, p. 525C Mumma, David, age 60, Miner, b. MD, Father b. MD, Mother b. MD Mary, age 53, Keeping house, b. MD, Father b. MD, Mother b. MD Maud, age 18, at home, b. IL May, age 12, b. IL [Note: their house was located just a few houses from the Mt. Carroll Seminary - a school of music.]] ******************************************************** Oak Knoll Cemetery, Mt. Carroll, Mt. Carroll County, IL: Mumma, Wm. son of D. & M. C. died 20 Nov 1852; aged 1y 1m 6d Mumma, Father David 1819 - 1882 Mumma, Mary C. 1827 - 1918 Celia (?) d. 11 Sept 1867; aged 2y 7m Children of D. and M. C. Mumma ******************************************************** From page 394, the "History of Carroll Co., IL:", pub. 1878 by H.F. Kett & Co., Chicago, Illinois Directory of the City of Mount Carroll MUMA, D.; Glovemaker Note: It is curious that David's occupation in the 1870 and 1880 census is that of a miner, yet this directory list him as a glovemaker. Strange occupation as a glovemaker, however he was given a US Patent for an improved tanning process: ---------------- US Patents and Trademark Office Patents, 1790-1909 (Ancestry.com) David Mumma - Mount Carroll, IL - Patent No. 31,005, dated 24 Dec 1861 - "Improvements in treating skins withou removing the hair or fur" ******************************************************** Marriages of David's daughers Source: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900. http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/genealogy/marrsrch. html GROOM BRIDE County Date Vol/Page Lic. ---------------------- ------------------------------ ----------------------------- ----------------- Skinner, A A Mumma, Arabella E Carroll 02/02/1871 B/ 21 836 Stripe, William A Mumma, Caroline C Carroll 06/17/1874 B/ 33 1297 VanDyke, William W Mumma, Margaret M Carroll 12/13/1869 B/ 17 657 ******************************************************** MOUNT CARROLL MIRROR (Illinois) Friday, August 4, 1882 ------------------------------------------------- At his residence in this city, on Thursday evening, July 27, 1882, of Mountain Fever, Mr. David Mumma, aged 61 years, 9 months and 26 days. The deceased was born in the state of Maryland, October 1, 1820, and came to this city in 1848, where he has since resided. Mr. Mumma was an industrious, hard working man, generous, open-hearted, a kind and loving husband and father, and was honored and respected by all who knew him, Some months ago he went to Colorado to look after some silver mines which he owned, and there contracted the mountain fever. He came home several weeks ago thinking that the change of climate and home surroundings would hasten his recovery. But alas - how fickle is life. Instead of recovering, he rapidly grew worse and died as above stated. He leaves a wife and seven daughters to mourn his departure. Estate Papers - Filed Carroll County, IL ------------------------------------------------ MUMMA, DAVID ( BOX 41 File 962) Estate Died - 27 July ' 1882 Admin - Abram H. Lichty Bond - 27 Sept 1882 Petnr - Mary C. Mumma Bndmn -- - - Abram H, Lichty; Josephus B. Smith Widow - Mary C. Mumma Children- Maggie M. Van Dyke Anabell E. Skinner Carrie E. Stripe <=== "Caroline" in the 1860 & 1870 census Mary Machomich <=== "Alice M." In the 1860 & 1870 census Nellie B, Wiley <=== "Jennie" in the 1860 & 1870 census Lula M. Mumma <=== "Maude L" in the 1870 & 1880 census May Mumma <=== "Mary" in the 1884 guardianship papers after her father's death ------------------------------------------------ MUMMA, MARY (BOX 44 File 1035) Guardianship - Probate Vol III Age - 17 yr on 1 Oct 1884 Bond - 8 Oct 1884 Bondsmen - Abram H. Lichty, Nelson Fletcher, Hugh J. Griffith Guardian - Abram H. Lichty (Note: Abram was their neighbor in the 1880 census) Heirs - of David Mumma [Note: Is this May or Mary? The 1880 census and the Estate papers of David suggest the youngest child was named May, not Mary. Possibly the information was incorrectly extracted from one of the documents.] ------------------------------------------------ HARRIS, SARAH L. (BOX 28 File 6?3) Estate Died 6 May 1877 Witt - Mary 0. Biren; John H. Blissing Exec Nelson Fletcher Bond - 12 May 1877 Petnr - Nelson Fletcher Bndsmn - Nelson Fletcher; O. F. Reynolds; A. L. Pratt Children- George F. Harris William H.Harris Mary C. Mumma Lewis A. Harris Elizabeth P. Mitchell Melissa A. C. Tate Nelson Fletcher trustee for Lewis A. Harris until he is absolved or released from the bonds of matrimony now existing between him and Florence E. Harris AfDep - 160 Acres of land in Page Co, Iowa. ******************************************************* [Excerpt from the "Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Carroll County", Munsell Publishing Company - Chicago 1913, p. 670] ANOTHER PARTY LEAVES MOUNT CARROLL Still another party left Mount Carroll for the old mines, this one on the first day of April, 1850. There were nine men, two wagons and seven horses. In this party was David Mumma, a splendid man to have in the camp, as is testified by one of his companions; knew how to do everything to make people comfortable in camp, was a very good cook of such food as could be had on a trip like this. He was an indefatigable miner and trapper; after returning to Mount Carroll and working in the lead mines near there, he returned to Pike's Peak to mine gold and silver; he there contracted the mountain fever, and came home and died from the same. His widow, Mrs. Mary C. Mumma, was the daughter of George W. Harris, one of the very early pioneers of this county; she is still living at Cleveland, Ohio. Their family of six daughters are widely scattered; their husbands occupying honorable positions in the active duties of the business world. THE MUMMA PARTY In the Mumma party was Joe Christian who was the proprietor of the transportation facilities; Abe Beeler; Billy Powers, a lead miner who lived at the Mansion House, kept at that time by George Hollinger; and George Hay, then quite a young man, who was enabled to go with this gold seeking party through the assistance of his uncle, Peter Hay, a lead miner who came here from the Galena lead mines. He was the father of the present superintendent of schools, John Hay, and William J. Hay, for many years supervisor from Woodland township and chairman of the County Board. George Clay had stated to friends many interesting incidents of this trip across the continent. On their way out he said, they were obliged to stop three different times to let the immense herds of buffalo go by, as it was not safe to cross their trails while they were in motion, which seemed to be day and night for two or three days in succession; he said not only thousands but a million or more seemed to be in the procession. On the overland trip their horses gave out and they were obliged to buy oxen and when they got to the Sierra mountains, the last mountain range they had to cross, they were reduced to such straits, that they traded the whole outfit, except what they could carry, for a sack of flour. Then they trudged along over the mountains on foot; a weary tramp it was. GOVERNMENT OF THE GOLD SEEKERS This incident was also told by Mr. Hay, and it illustrates the manner of government these miners and gold seekers, out of necessity, made for themselves. A murder had been committed in their camp, a man was arrested on suspicion, a jury of six was drawn by lot, Mr. Hay was one of the number, the evidence was heard by the jury and it was so convincing the jury were unanimous in voting a verdict of guilty, after waiting till morning and again voting, the verdict was the same. The execution of the guilty man soon followed, and the place was called Hangtown.

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