Branch County MI Archives Biographies.....Rumsey, John  March 8, 1822 - 
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Author: 1888 Portrait & Bio Album

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARTICLE ON JOHN RUMSEY

The pioneers of this county still living remember the advent into the county of
this, one of its best citizens, who took his lot with the early settler of
Matteson Township in 1846.  The first purchase of our subject was a tract of
land on section 26 in Matteson Township, which he improved and lived upon for 20
years.  Then selling out, he purchased his present farm on section 14, Noble
Township.

John Rumsey was born in Marion County, Ohio, March 8, 1822, and is the son of
Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Rider) Rumsey, who were natives of New York, and of
English ancestry.  The father many years ago left the Empire State for Ohio and
died in Marion County, about 1838.  The mother subsequently married Benjamin
Stebbins, and when our subject was 13 years old came with her husband to
Michigan and located in St. Joseph County, where both spent the remainder of
their lives.  To Nathaniel and Elizabeth Rumsey there were born 13 children,
three of whom are living.

Mr. Rumsey was married to Mrs. Mary E. Imhoff, of Noble Township.  This lady was
the widow of Jacob Imhoff, by whom she became the mother of 8 children, namely,
Lizzie, Sarah Ann, Catherine, Mary, Peter, John, Samuel and Annetta.  They are
all living in Michigan.

To our subject and his present wife there has been born one child, a son,
Ernest, in April 1883.  



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