Hardin County OhArchives Obituaries.....Stumm, Rebecca Burchinal April 24, 1891
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Ada Record, 6 May 1891
From the Ada Record, 6 May 1891 (Page 3):

Obituaries
Died at the residence of J. Loutzenhiser on Friday morning, April 24th, 1891. 
Rebecca Stumm, widow of Philip Stumm, deceased, aged 88 years, 4 months and 23 
days. Deceased was born in Springhill township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania on 
Dec. 1st, 1802. She was married June 10th, 1826 in that county at the home of 
Jeremiah Burchinal, by Peter Stentz, a Justice of the Peace. Her husband, Philip 
Stumm, died Sept. 26th, 1854, aged 55 years, and was interred at the Klingler 
cemetery, near the Reformed church, 2 miles west of Ada, where her remains were 
laid beside those her her husband, on Sunday, April 26th, after a discourse from 
a text from the 14th chapter of St. John, first verse, by Rev. Z. B. Campbell, of 
the 1st Presbyterian church, Ada, Ohio.

She was of Scotch-Welsh descent, her great grand-parent Burchinal having 
emigrated to America about 1633, settling with the Colony established by Lord 
Baltimore and his son Cecil adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay, known as Maryland. 
They were Catholics and left their native land on account of persecution, 
settling first in Virginia, thence to the colony governed first by Leonard 
Calvert, brother of Lord Baltimore. Her mother's maiden name was Horn whose 
ancestors came from Wales many years ago, settling in the state of Delaware.

She was the mother of six sons and one daughter who survive her. She was the 
mother of six sons and one daughter who survive her. Besides her seven children, 
she reared two grandchildren and two adopted children making eleven children for 
whom she cared and protected. 

Philip and Rebecca Stumm with their family moved from Pennsylvania in April 1852 
to Ashland county, Ohio and in April 1853 re-moved to Hardin county, settling on 
a partialy improved farm 8 miles north-west of Johnstown (Ada) and in the Fall of 
1858 the widow and three sons, C.E., L.F. and P.W., moved to Ada where she 
remained, excepting a few years spent on the farm, until seven months prior to 
her death when she was re-moved to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Loutzenhizer 
who kindly cared for her in her last illness.

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