Ray County, Missouri Biographies - Reuben VanTrump (b. 1826)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.732-733


REUBEN VANTRUMP

Reuben VanTrump. Is a native of Rockingham county, Virginia. He was born in the year
1826. He was reared and lived on a farm till he was twenty years old, and then learned
the blacksmithing trade, though he never pursued it, as a business, in after life. In
the year 1854, he went to Indiana, and engaged in farming there for about six years, and
then, in 1860, began operating a saw-mill, and followed that business for eight years.
He then sold his saw-mill property and bought a farm, and lived upon it until the fall
of 1875, when he came to Missouri. He stopped the first winter after coming to the state,
in the town of Norborne, in Carroll county, but the next spring came to Ray county, and
settled where he now resides, section fifteen, township fifty-three, range twenty-six. Mr.
Vantrump was married, in the year 1848, to Miss Diana Carnes, a native of Virginia. Mr.
and Mrs. Vantrump have three children living: John C., Americus V., and Medici Belle.
John Vantrump, father of our subject, was a native of Virginia; born in 1799; died in 1870.
He was a member of the German Reformed Church, for a great number of years prior to his 
death. The grandfather of our subject came across the Atlantic in the same ship with Peter
Stuyvesant, the ‘last and best governor’ of New Amsterdam (now New York). Reuben Vantrump’s
mother was a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, and was born in 1806. She died in 1874.
Mr. Vantrump is a member of the I. O. O. F. He owns a valuable farm of very productive land,
which he manages very successfully. He is a good neighbor, and a very valuable citizen.


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