Rumph of Orangeburg County, South Carolina and Houston County, Georgia

Jacob Rumph, the son of Jacob Rumph and his wife, Anna (Dattwyler) Rumph, was born 9 July 1752 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina and died 10 October 1812. He was married in 1775 to Anne Mary Harrisperger, born 1756, died 30 September 1835 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Issue:

• John Rumph, born 1 August 1775 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, died 13 December 1856.
  
  
• Jacob Rumph, born 20 August 1777 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
• David Rumph, born 28 October 1778 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
• Caroline Elizabeth Rumph, born 25 August 1783 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, died 14 February 1814. She married Van de Vastine Jamison.
  
  
• Christian Harrisperger Rumph, born 1 February 1786 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, died 17 June 1834. He married Margaret Maria Miller.
  
  
• Anne Rumph, born April 1788 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, died 30 June 1818.
  
  
• Mary Elvira Rumph, born 1795 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, died June 1854 in Dooly County, Georgia. She married on 10 July 1817 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, Donald Bruce Jones.
  
  
• Caroline Ann Rumph.
  
  
• Lewis Rumph, born 1789 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, died 8 August 1862 in Houston County Georgia. He built a colonial home in Marshallville, Georgia where he owned valuable properties as indicated by the 1860 Census. Known Issue: Wife, Maria, born 1796 in South Carolina. He married Maria Plant on 24 July 1843 in Houston County. Maria resided with her son, L. A. Rumph on 1880 Houston County, Census, aged 74 years. Listed on 1850-1860 Houston County, Census. Issue:

  1. Ephrasia Rumph (daughter), born 1830 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
  2. Clara Rumph, born 1831 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
  3. Lewis Adolphus Rumph, born 1848 in Marshallville, Houston County, Georgia. Wife, Virginia, born 1851.

     "Lewis Rumphy, a widower with five children, married Maria, Mrs. Benjamin D. Plant, a widow with three children. In order to keep boys and girls separate, no doors connected the new rooms with the old. Two stairways led upward, one to each separate section of the second story...Nevertheless, Samuel Rumph, Lewis's son, married his stepsister, Caroline Plant. They had a son named Samuel Henry Rumphy....Meanwhile, the senior Rumphs had produced three children of their own, one of whom was named Lewis Adolphus Rumph. Young Samuel Henry Rumph later married a sister of the wife of Lewis Adolphus and in addition to being a half-nephew on both sides of Lewis A., he then became his double uncle's brother-in-law.
     
     "In 1857, Increase Cook Plant of Macon, brother of the senior Mrs. Rumph's first husband, sent her second husband an assortment of budded peach trees from a Delaware nursery. These included the Chnese Cling, Early and Late Crawford, Nixon Free, Stump of the World and Tellitson. Mr. Rumph set them out in the family orchard where they eventually blossomed and bore fruit.
     
     "Of all the varieties produced by this assortment, everyone agreed that the Chinese Clingstone was superior. Mrs. Rumph saved some of the seeds of the fruit, dropped them in a work baset and there, completely forgotten, they stayed for at least a dozen years.
     
     "When Mrs. Rumph's grandsome, Samuel Henry Rumph, grew up and became interested in making experiments at his own near-by plantation called Willow Lake, she remembered the peach seeds, hunted them up and presented them to him.
     
     "The year was 1870 when Samuel H. Rumph planted these mummified peach seeds of the Chinese Cling, seeds saved by his grandmother when he himself was a child.....And that is how the commercial peach industry was born in Georgia. Samuel H. Rumph named the new peach Elberta, for his wife...." White Columns in Georgia By Medora Field Perkerson, pp. 293-294.

     Issue:

     a. Eugene Rumph, born 1870 in Marshallville, Houston County.
     b. Susie Rumph, born 1871 in Marshallville, Houston County.
     c. Benning Rumph, born 1877 in Marshallville, Houston County.
     

  4. Samuel Henry Rumph, born 1852 in Marshallville, Houston County, Georgia. Samuel Rumph married first his stepsister, Caroline E. Plant on 3 April 1849 in Houston County; and married second, a sister of the wife of Lewis Adolphus. He was a nurseryman in Marshallville. In 1880 his wife was Clara (born 1854). Issue: Clara Rumph, born 1876 in Marshallville, Houston County.