Biography:  John and George Stump of Shade Township

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John and George Stump settled on a tract of land at the head
of Miller Run Creek, near the old Fairview School, for which John
received a warrant dated 1792. John Stump was a Revolutionary
War veteran according to information found on a large, flat sand-
stone used to mark his grave on the above-mentioned tract of land.
(The names of many frontiersmen who served in the French and
Indian War and in the Revolutionary War cannot be found in the
:poorly kept, if any, official rosters or records of these wars.) The
names of both John and George Stump are found in the assessment
records of 1773, 1776, 1779, 1783, and later.

Other early settlers are known to have located in what is now
Township before 1800, but soon continued on farther west
reasons best known only to themselves).
Many other settlers came to Shade Township from along the
seaboard and from western Europe and the British Isles
1800 and 1850 to find new homes and freedom in this still
wilderness. Some of these were: David Rodgers, Gotlieb
George Fry, John Hamer, and John Lambert.