Parents: Robert Baker (1686 - 1760) & Susannah Packer Baker (1688 - 1764)

Research Notes

Parents' names are listed as:

• Charles Baker & Jane Unknown
• Charles Baker & Jane Hughes
• Charles Baker & Susannah Packer
• Robert James Baker & Susannah Packer
• Henry Baker
• Joseph Baker

Father: Thomas Henry (or Hurst?) Hughes

Sarah - d. 6/14/1821?

Burial

Find A Grave Memorial# 85101260

Note: The Stump Run Farm where the Stump family cemetery is located was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. See Stump Run Farm

Marriages

• Joseph Bibbee, b. c. 1742
• Col. Michael Stump Jr./II m. in 1763 b. 4/8/1744 Tulpehocken, Lancaster,Pennsylvania (alt location:: South Fork, Hardy, WV) d. 6/2/1799 in Hardy,Virginia in Hardy County, , WV burial: Near Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia

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Parents: Michael Stump Sr. and Catherine Anna Stump (Neff) (11/27/1716 Germany-1795 Hardy County, WV) (or Catherine Whitecotton?). Michael Jr. was the eldest of 6 children. Michael was born 3/17/1709 in Ederbach Hesson, Darmstadt, Germany and d. in 1767 at South Fork, Hardy, WV Both Michale and Catherine are buried in Stump Cemetery, South Fork, Hardy, WV

Catherine Anna Neff's parents: Johann Michael Neff and Anna Dorothea Sours(Saur)

Michael Stump met with others 7 Feb 1786 all gentlemen Justices and took the oaths prescribed by law as Justices of the County Court and the Court of Chancery !Census taker 1782, 1784 (7 whites 1782)

10 Jul 1799: Michael Stump, inventory of estate. Michael Jr. of Virginia died intestate, June 1799.

Hardy Co Va Will Bk 3 p 140 Sarah Stump, widow of Michael Stump; Son Jesse and his daughter Sarah; Sarah, daughter of son Leonard; daughters Sarah Simon, and Catherine Whitecotton and her son James.

Wits: Leonard Stump, William Teawalt and George Simon. proven -12 Feb 1822.

Following heirs of Michael Stump (II) deeded 1/9 share of 400 acres of land to Leonard Stump Jr: George and Catharine Whitecotton, bk 4 p 501, 12 Nov 1799 Jesse Stump, bk 5 p 329 13 Feb 1805 Michael Stump(III) of Harrison Co, Va bk 5 p 62, 15 Sep 1801 Sarah Stump bk 5 p 103, 9 Feb 1802 George Stump of Harrison Co, Va bk 6 p 164, 22 Feb 1809 Abraham Stump bk 6 p 179, 15 Feb 1809 Elias Stump, bk 6 p 579, 6 Sep 1811

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Following info from The Stumps, the Four Michaels, by Paul Hartman 1940:

Michael Stump II was the eldest of Michael and Catherine Stump s six children. He was born in 1744 and died in 1799. He married Sarah Hughes, daughter of Thomas Hughes in 1763. We do not have the year of her birth, but she died in 1821. Michael II received a very liberal education for one of his day and the limited educational facilities of his surroundings. He located on the 400 acre tract conveyed to him by his father and mother, and we believe that he and Sarah spent their lives in this home of their youth.

Very early in his career, he was initiated into public service which continued unrelentlessly until the time of his death. The beginning of this service was as a justice of the peace and consequently member of the County Court of Hampshire County, and later when Hardy county was erected out of Hampshire, This same service was tranmitted to the new county, and continued throughtout his life. He was a very active and conscientious member of the court, and appears to have been an ardent supporter of all measures tending to public progress and betterment of local conditions.

He enlisted in Lord Dunmore s War and after the Battle of Point Pleasant and the peace treaty with the Indians, returned to Hampshire County where he was recommended and received the commission of Lieutenant Colonel of the county s militia. In this position he found himself responsible for the training and outfitting of the troops for the Continental Army in that section of Virginia. He resigned his command of the militia in the spring of 1781 in response to the urgent call of Governor Thomas Jefferson to meet the exigencies of the situation in Virginia. He enlisted a selected company of light infantry and as captain, led them to Fredricksburg, where they were absorbed in General Weeden s army. This service continued until after the surrender of the British at Yorktown. Details will be given in the Chapter, "The Revolutionary Period". After independence had been obtained, Michael II returned to his home but was soon engrossed in the duties as a gentleman justice of the new county of Hardy. He was recommended for sheriff, and just prior to the division of Hampshire, had served as enumerator of the first federal census (1790). It has been said that he was a very considerate and likable man but when aroused by a sense of duty or decorum, possessed the infectious quality of having his commands obeyed instantly.

Michael II and Sarah Hughes Stump sleep in the old Stump burial ground, near his father and mother.

The following served in the War of 1812 Under Capt VanMeter, 6th Regt VA Militia.- George Stump, Corporal; Leonard Neff, Corporal; Elias Stump, Musician; Fleming Stump, George Stump. In Captain John Cunningham s Co, 16th Regt. Jacob Neff, 1st Cpl; John Stump.

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