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RUMSEY/DEWITT

jkelseyjones  (View posts) Posted: 2 Sep 1999 12:00PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 26 Mar 2005 4:38PM GMT
Surnames: RUMSEY, DEWITT
Looking for descendants of Olivia P. Rumsey and Joseph H. DeWitt. Joseph b. 23 Apr 1798 Frankford, Sussex County, New Jersey son of Abraham DeWitt and Mehitable Hopkins, m. 24 July 1819 Sarah Goble. Joseph m. 12 May 1822 (2)Sarah Edwards, known as Sally, b. 1798. Joseph, Sarah, and family were enumerated in Frankford township, Sussex County, New Jersey in 1830. Removed about 1836 to Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania settling near Baptist Hill. Sarah d. 24 Oct 1842 44y 7m (ts) Judson Hill Cemetery, Wells township, Bradford County. Joseph m. 4 Dec 1844 (3)Olivia P. Rumsey b. c. 1818 daughter of Noah Rumsey and Susannah Cudworth of Sullivan township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. They removed in the 1850's to Rutland Township, Tioga County and then removed from the area about 1858 presumably to Iowa.

Child of Joseph and Sarah:
Caleb H. DeWitt b. 1 Nov 1820 Frankford township, Sussex County, New Jersey.

Children of Joseph and Sarah:
William R. DeWitt b. c. 1823.
Mehitable Jane DeWitt b. c. 1826 Frankford township.
Mary A. DeWitt b. c. 1828 Frankford township.
George W. DeWitt b. Sept 1829 New Jersey.
John W. DeWitt b. c. 1831 New Jersey.
Sarah Rebecca DeWitt b. c. 1833 New Jersey.
Tempy A. DeWitt b. Dec 1835 d. 3 Apr 1845 9y 4m 24d (ts) Judson Hill Cemetery.

Children of Joseph and Olivia:
Helen DeWitt b. c. 1845 Columbia township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Clinton DeWitt b. June 1846/7 Columbia township.
Martha DeWitt b. c. 1848 Columbia township.
child.
A. L. DeWitt b. c. 1859 Iowa.

Helen DeWitt b. c. 1845 m. ________ Dorwart. An F. L. Dorwart resided Tobias, Saline County, Nebraska in the 1890 business directory and a J. W. Dorwart MD, served Civil War, resided Saline County.


Ida Mae Dorwart b. c. 1866 m. ______ Proudfit, resided Friend, Saline County, Nebraska in 1904-5.
DeWitt Yule Dorwart b. c. 1867, resided Friend, Saline County, Nebraska in 1904-5.
Rebecca Helen Dorwart b. c. 1869, resided Friend, Saline County, Nebraska in 1904-5.
Minnie Anna Dorwart b. c. 1871 m. _______ Morse, resided Friend, Saline County, Nebraska in 1904-5.
Daniel Clinton Dorwart b. c. 1873, resided Friend, Saline County, Nebraska in 1904-5.
Carrie E. Dorwart b. c. 1875 m. ______ Green, resided Fairmont, Nebraska in 1904-5.
Lynn Blance Dorwart b. c. 1879, resided Friend, Saline County, Nebraska in 1904-5.
Jason M. Dorwart b. c. 1881, resided Friend, Saline County, Nebraska in 1904-5.

Joseph Clinton DeWitt b. June 1846/7 and wife, Ida E., b. Jan 1852 Ohio were enumerated in Pleasant Hill Precinct, Saline County, Nebraska in June 1880, farmer, his brother L. DeWitt residing with them. Still of Pleasant Hill in the 1890 business directory. Enumerated in Pleasant Hill in 1900. PO address was Crete in 1904-5.

Frances Helen DeWitt b. May 1878 Nebraska.
Ross R. DeWitt b. July 1881 Nebraska.
P. Clinton DeWitt b. Dec 1889 Nebraska.

Martha DeWitt b. c. 1848 m. ______ Wallace. No Wallace listed in the 1890 directory of Saline County.

Maud Wallace b. c. 1872, resided Tobias, Saline County, Nebraska in 1904-5, single.
Bertha Wallace b. c. 1874, resided Tobias, Saline County, Nebraska in 1904-5, single.
Frank Wallace b. c. 1876, resided Tobias, Saline County, Nebraska in 1904-5.

A. L. DeWitt b. c. 1859 Iowa, resided in Saline County, Nebraska with brother Clinton in 1880 and was residing in Middleton, Wyoming in 1904-5.

In 1904-5 the only other descendant of Joseph H. DeWitt and Olivia P. Rumsey not listed above was Nancy Elizabeth Barlow of York, Nebraska and she was perhaps the fifth child of Joseph and Olivia.

Looking for any information on this family.
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jkelseyjones 2 Sep 1999 12:00PM GMT 
MaureenGobel 17 Dec 2011 5:17PM GMT 
   

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