Whilst packing up to go to the Shaw family reunion in Colorado tomorrow, I started rifling through my old Shaw research file to catch up on a line I haven't been researching on recently, and found some STUMP stuff, including a 1904 letter from JESSE W. STUMP: This typewritten letter is on Huntington Business University, Huntington, Indiana, and dated Oct 8, 1904: Mr. T R Hamilton, Lima, Ohio. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 21st, has been received and in reply will say that I will do what I can to oblige you. My father Johnathen [sic] Stump is not dead. He lives on the farm joining mine. He has been married three times, a few years after my mothers death he married Elizabeth Bowman. To this marriage two sons were born, Elmer W. Stump and Eli C. Stump. They are both married and have families. Elizabeth Stump died in the year 1880. A few years later father was married to Mrs. Lorena Chaney a widow woman with whom he is now living. He is in poor health and has not been able to do much work for several years. I am a farmer living on my farm two miles and one half east of the town of Roanoke, R.F.D. I am the third child of my fathers now living. My age is forty seven years. I was married to Isabelle Sites in 1882. Elda my oldest son was born Oct. 19, 1884. He is at home now but is employed by the Wabash Railroad Co. at Aboite. He is not married. My second child Minnie was born July, 23, 1886. She graduated in the common branches here at home in the Beech School and is now finishing up a years course in the Huntington Business University, Huntington Ind. The course consists of bookeeping [sic], shorthand, and typewriting. If you can do anything for her in the way of securing a position we will be very glad. My third child, Frederick was born Aug. 16, 1898. He is a bright little boy of five. If there is anything more I can do for you I will be glad to do so. Wishing you success and hoping to hear from you soon, I remain, Yours very truly , /s/ Jesse [H? Sr?] Stump. If these Stumps belong to any of you, I'd be very interested, since they are my husband's Stumps too. Susannah Stump 1836-1873 married Thomas T. Shaw, 1832-1913. She was a d/o John 1797-1858 & Barbara Summers Stump, who were parents of about 15 children. Susannah Stump Shaw's brother Jonathan Shaw married Sarah Shaw, Thomas's sister. Until I happened to see a copy of a land deed from a Shaw to a Stump or vice versa, I didn't realize that my mother-in-law's ancestors were shirt-tail kin of my father-in-law's ancestors, since the contact was lost between the two families over the years--our batch of Stumps went to Missouri, then to Colorado, and the Shaws went from Iowa to Nebraska to Colorado. Hence I find Stump stuff in my Shaw files--I hadn't made the connection yet. Jan T