I am Diana Nelson. I have made a STUMP connection to Hardy Co., West Virginia. Would you please look over my information and see if we can connect? rsdmn@aurora.alaska.edu Below is the information on the 1850 census for Jesse Wilson, John Stump and George Stump from Hardy Co., West Virginia Jesse Wilson is married to Elizabeth J. Stump. 191/195 John Stump 55 farmer 5000 Virginia Sarah 55 Virginia Elijah N 32 farmer Virginia John J 20 farmer Virginia Sarah A 23 Virginia Frances A Harness 13 Virginia 192/196 George Stump 27 farmer Virginia Cath Jane(Neff) 28 Virginia John A Godolphin 6 Virginia Virginia D 4 Virginia Priscilla E 3 Virginia Wm Seymour Maslin 4/12 Virginia 193/197 Jesse Wilson 28 farmer Virginia Elizabeth 30 (STUMP) Virginia Dorothy AACV 5 Virginia Adeline ARF 2 Virginia Sarah DRP 8/12 Virginia ****** John A Godolphin and Wm Seymour Maslin are also in the 1860 census but most go by the name of STUMP in the George Stump family by the time they get to IL. ****** 1860 Census; 3 separate households...just down the road from each other in Pilot Twp, Vermilion Co, IL John Stump 65 M Va Sarah 65 F Va(maybe a Neff) Elza 42 M Va George Stump 37 M Va Catherine J 39 F Va (Neff) John A J 17 M Va Virginia 15 F VA Persilla 13 F VA William 10 M VA Sarah 8 F IL George W 1 M IL John Stump 32 M VA Jane 30 F IL Hannah 3 F IL Independent 1/12 F IL Wilsons in Pilot Twp: Jesse Wilson 37 M VA Elizabeth 40 F Va *(STUMP) Catherine 16 F VA Adaline 13 F VA Sarah 11 F VA Perren 9 M VA James 4 M IL *(James Marion Wilson my great grandfather) Clarinda 1 F IL *James Marion Wilson married Nancy Jane Mason. They were both my great grandparents. They still have one child alive in Tilton, IL. *********** This Obit was from a Danville, IL paper. She died close to Loda,IL about 1914. Elizabeth Stump/Wilson was buried in Muncie, IN. I have a picture of Elizabeth Stump. ELIZABETH WILSON DIED AT AGE OF 95 Born in West Virginia, Had lived in Vermilion Country and Iroquois for Past Sixty Years The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, who died at the home of her son, James Wilson, near Loda in Iroquois country, at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon, will be held from Emberry Chapel, north of Muncie, at 11 o'clock Thursday morning. Rev. Thomas Snider will officiate, and interment will be made in the Emberry cometary adjoining the church. The body was brought from Loda to the Blythe undertaking establishment in this city where it will remain until Thursday morning, when it will be removed overland to the chapel where the services are to be observed. Elizabeth J. (Stump) Wilson was born in Hardy county, West Virginia, March 4, 1819. She grew to young womanhood in the vicinity where she was born, and Nov. 6, 1843 was united in marriage with Jesse H. Wilson. To this union eight children were born, the following five of whom survive: Mrs. Adelia LeNeve, North Vermilion street; Jesse P. Wilson, north of the city; James M. Wilson, Loda, with whom she has made her home since the death of her husband 27 years ago;Mrs. Clara Rice , Beagle, Kans. Mrs. Esther Tevebaugh, Greeley, Colo. Twenty-five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild also survive. In 1852 four families, including the Stumps and Wilsons left their home in Hardy county, and proceed overland, via the Prairie Schooner, until they reached a point about 3 miles south of where Collison now stands. Nov 10, 1852, the land in that vicinity suiting them in most respects, they stopped and began plans for making their home there. The remainder of Mrs. Wilson's life was spent in that locality with the exception of the past five years during which she has lived in Iroquois country. She is the last of the older generation, who came westward with the party in '52, and is known to practically every person in Pilot township where she was for more than half a century a resident. Despite her great age she was active until a short time before her death, preserving the features and activity not possessed by many persons thirty years her junior. The deceased was able to tell of many incidents connected with the early history of this county. When the band of homeseekers passed through Danville, just 61 years prior to the day of her death, there was less than a thousand people here, and the hazel brush which covered the whole of the present site north of town was so thick that paths through it were necessary to permit communication with the outside world. Denmark was then the larger settlement, although Danville was rapidly overhauling the former "city" for supremacy. The prairie was open and unfenced. They said that Mrs. Wilson was one of the pioneers to whom the opening of this wild country must be accredited. Thank you, Diana in AK