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Fay: Thank you for the reply. The information on Joseph and Mary will help. Joseph was a
Cooper and Minister in Lagrange County. I am still looking for a cause of death for Reuben
but the rest I have found since I posted the question. He and pricilla died at and are
burried on the Henry Co., IN Poor Farm. They entered the Poor House in late 1867 with the
whole family except my great grandfather Samuel. I don't know the cause. Samuel had
returned in '64 from the Civil War (8th Indiana Volunteer Infantry) sick from disease
and wounded. He never completely recovered and died at 45 in 1885 in Carthage MO. Samuel
took a brother 12 and sister 10 from the Poor House, in December of '76 and delivered
them to SW MO in Jan. They traveled in a wagon through the winter. They must have been
desperate and much tougher than I. The boy, Reuben JR., prospered but the girl entered the
poor house in Jasper Co., MO. in the mid 1880's, "blind, 6 children, all
dead". Samuel married an army buddy'!
s sister, Catherine Lattin, in '69 who died in '76. Thankfully the the bad luck
ended with that generation and my grandfather George Bumpus.
Thanks again. Marlow