Generations Project: The Kump's
In the family history quest of finding ancestors, matching up dates and all the mess that entails, etc. the Kump's are a dream come true. My maternal grandparent's are both descendants of Zachariah Kump, Sr. and Mary Catherine "Kate" Cloward (my maternal grandparents are actually 2nd cousins).
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| Zac and Kate (circa 1900): A common ancestry! |
Zachariah was born in Dover, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1830. Given name is actually Zacharias Kumpf. It is likely his became "Americanized" early, though, due to his name being listed as "Zachariah Kump" in the 1850 U.S. Census. Name variations include both Zachariah, Zackariah, and plain ole' Zac. Both variations are utilized interchangeably in various records.
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| Zachariah Kump, Sr. |
In '31 the Kump family removed to Ohio and later to Wisconsin. When "Zac" as he was often called was 21, he went to California and engaged in mining (most likely in the California gold mining rush of 1848–1855) and farming. He lived with a niece (Rose Story Cooley) and her husband (David Cooley). In 1967 he came to Moroni, UT bringing a threshing machine, (a machine that separates the grain from the stalks and husks), and the next year he went back and hauled out another. He came to Chester, UT in the spring of 1881 and now has a nice, well-improved forty-acre farm. He is a stockholder in the Moroni Co-op store, and a prominent citizen of Chester. Zachariah was married first to Elizabeth Ann Cloward, who after having 3 children passed away after childbirth, and then next to her cousin Mary Catherine "Kate" Cloward, Elizabeth's cousin who was tending to the family. He next has ten living children with Kate: Ellen, Susan, Eliza, Louesa, Zachariah, Lewis, Willis, Jacob, Loren, Edna and Katie. LDS records do not give him a baptismal date until 2 years after his death, so he was not a LDS member.
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| LDS Membership Records |
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| Mary Catherine "Kate" Cloward Kump |
Kate however, was baptized and confirmed on 7th of Sep 1873 by Lars N. Larsen. Kate was married to Zachariah in 1875 in Sanpete, Utah. She was born in Spanish Fork, UT on 23 May, 1856. She was one of nine children, six boys and three girls. While she was quite young, her parents moved to Moroni, Utah. Her education was limited and her parents were poor. She had to work as a child to earn money for clothing. She did however grow up happy and enjoyed going to dances and quilting parties. Her father, Jacob Cloward, Jr. did not join the Church, but her mother, Susannah Mendenhall had been baptized in 1867. The Mendenhalls were early LDS Saints from Delaware. Her and her many children appear on the LDS church records. They are recorded as having made various finicial contributions towards the construction of the Salt Lake Temple in 1881.
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Contributions totaling $450 for the temple |
Her son, Zacharias Jr. records that she was very fervent member of the Church, "she was a great tithe payer", and very devout member of the Church. She was diligent in preforming temple work for her non-member husband 2 years after his death, and having their family sealed together, as well as children that passed away in infancy. After a son, Wilous, died from appendicitis, "she could not hardly do anything for thinking of him. She told the Bishop all about it and said Willous cannot go on until his temple work is done."
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| Kump home in Chester, Utah, circa 1909 |
This is a photo of the Kump home in Chester, Utah, circa 1909. Zachariah Kump Sr. built this home 1885; Pictured are Kate and her two sons, Carlyle and Dean, and her daughter-in-law, Blanche, holding her son, Don.
Zac dies on June 19, 1904 at Chester, Utah after falling from tree or a chair. Cause of death is listed as "paralysis of brain", he fell from a height while putting up a swing. He was buried at Moroni Cemetery, Moroni, Utah .
Kate was left with the responsibility of raising a large family as a single mother of 15 children. Son, Zac Jr, records" Oh, what a wonderful mother she was to her children. I know, because I was one of them. My mother who challenged the crisis of life or death that she might give birth and bestow upon fifteen children the invalued gift of mortality. Our mother that gave the food that kept life, kindled and nourished us when body and mind were helpless through the long days of infancy. Our mother who watched in our earliest years, our every move, who guarded our sleeping and wakening moments to save us from harm. Our mother who gave us all she had to give, to the last morsel of strength of thoughtfulness, and the tenderest care and love ever had, and always. She was so good and kind."
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| Kate's place |
In 1910 after selling her two-story brick home; Kate bought this smaller house. She had a good horse and buggy and visited her children often. This house was remodeled soon after she died. She died in this house the 25 March 1915 from "pleurisy with effusion".
1 Comments:
Sounds like quite the woman! 15 kids is quite the feat to take care of by yourself...she must have been a very special daughter of Heavenly Father. :) And it is wonderful that she was able to also have her family together, even though her husband wasn't a member during his lifetime. You have some great ancestors, Austin! :)
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