Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Bump, Jefferson
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Jefferson BUMP, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Lockport; was born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., 
Jan. 31, 1826, and remained there until he was 8 years of age; in the fall of 1834, he 
came West with his parents and settled in Will Co.; in 1852, he crossed the plains to 
California, and prospected in the mines and tended packtrains of mules across the mountains 
until 1859, when he returned to this county and purchased the farm in 1860 upon which he 
resides, containing eighty acres, being one half the land originally pre-empted by his 
parents. Has been School Director three years. Married Miss Fannie Mariah ROCKAFELLOW 
(daughter of James and Nancyey ROCKAFELLOW, of Chautauqua Co., N. Y.) in Plainfield Dec. 
20, 1860; she was born April 30, 1844; they have six children - Sarah Angelina, born Nov. 
4, 1861; Nelson James, May 7, 1864, Clarence Josiah, Oct. 24, 1863; Nancy Helen, Sept. 
20, 1867; Frank Gile, July 20, 1869, and Lucy Loretta, born June 28, 1873.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.