Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Lumpkins, Rufus M. April 15, 1835 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Dalton Township
p. 452 & 453

Rufus M. Lumpkins, farmer and stock-raiser, section 26, Dalton Township, was 
born in what is now Dalton Township, Wayne County, April 15, 1835, the fifth 
son of James and Sarah (Thornburg) Lumpkins, the former a native of Virginia, 
and the latter of Tennessee. They came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1818, and 
resided three years in Perry Township after which they lived in Jefferson 
Township one year. They then moved to Dalton Township and purchased the farm 
now occupied by our subject, where they passed the rest of their days. Our 
subject received a common-school education and resided with his parents till 
he attained his majority. He then purchased lands in Dallas County, Iowa, 
where he resided two years, when he sold out and returned to his native 
county. He was married Sept. 9, 1858, to Rachel J., daughter of John W. 
Jordon, of Perry Township. Of their nine children seven survive---Mary C., 
America J., Robert H., Sarah M. F., James, John C. and William A. Those 
deceased are---Charles and Orin. After his marriage he lived ten years on the 
farm now owned by William D. Jordon, after which he lived three years on the 
S. M. Jordon farm. He then purchased the old homestead, containing 314 acres 
of well-improved land, where he has since resided.

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