Taken From The Book Below, Michael Stumpf / Stump Sr. of Virginia 1709-1768 by: Thurman Stump 1975 - ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is our first record of any of the names of Michael Stumpf / Stump Sr. and Catherine / Katherine's Family. The wife's surnames before marriage remain unknown to the date this is written. There were six known children in the family: Michael, Jr. --------- m: Sarah Hughes Catherine ----------- m: Jacob Blake George -------------- m: Elizabeth Wilson Elizabeth ------------ m: Felix Welton Leonard ------------- m: 1773 Catherine See Mary Magdaline -- m: a "Jacob Yoakham" (mother's will) Additional data about some of the family members has been compiled in a manuscript titled The Stumps, Descent of the Four Michael's by Paul Hardman, Charleston, West Virginia, October 19, 1940. A copy of the writing is in the Department of Archives and History, State of West Virginia, Charleston, West Virginia. Sarah Hughes, the wife of Michael Stump Jr. is the daughter of Thomas Hughes Sr. who was killed by Indians in 1778 in Monongalia County which was formed in 1776 from the District of West Augusta County in the Northern Neck of Virginia. She, Sarah Hughes is the sister of Jesse, Thomas Jr. and Elias Hughes. Jesse Hughes gained quite a bit of notoriety as an Indian fighter in that particular frontier area. In the section "Hughes Family Notebook" of Genealogies by Miss Minnie McWhorter* the following ascendant Hughes lineage is given: Sarah Hughes m: Col. Michael Stump Jr. Thomas Hughes Sr. m: Mary Baker d: April 1778 Thos. Hewes m: Mary Tedrick Quaker ("out of meeting") d: 1735 William Hughes Jr. m: Sarah Bezer 1689 dau. of Edward Bezer William Hughes Sr. m: Deborah ------- d: 1698 N.J. Validation of the lineage is beyond the purpose and scope of this writing. However, inquires containing the names of Sarah and father Thomas Hughes Sr. were sent the state chapters of Virginia, Pennsylvania and West Virginia of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and to the National Society of the Colonial Dames XVII Century in Washington, District of Columbia. The replies were unanimously negative. The names of Sarah Hughes and father Thomas Hughes Sr. do not appear on the named societies' register of ancestors for membership in those organizations. This does not invalidate the preceding lineage but merely shows that it has not been confirmed for membership in the named societies. The New Jersey societies of those patriotic organizations remain open to further inquiry. Gloria Powers Husk http://www.gloryway.com http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/u/s/Danny-L-Husk/index.html